Saturday, August 25, 2012

THE THOUGHT FLOWS ....GLOBAL (2008-10)




Guruji, Pls publish research paper on IFCI along with levels to watch and time frame. Students request and will eagerly wait for your post........... Thanks Mohan on US markets and INDIA
on 19/09/10
Dear doctor sir it is not that simple to dectate levels , donn forget that the bull market has not resistances and bear market no sapports. There are a huge blood letting on the anvil and ineveitably for sure they will take the margins. Let me tell you the fundamental difference of India growth story. Govt is fooling everyone. They are arm twisting the banks to give loans to telecom which anyway they will default and becomes NPAS. Thanks for the 3 G spectrum auction. The banks will again be arm twisted to invest in IPO s of the public sector by using 10% of cash reserves in eqities and 10 % in mutual funds. that leaves them not able to lend to infrastructue and small businesses. added to that the farmers are made a habit of defaulting the loans . The infrastructure will be saved with some tax saving infrastructure bonds and in a nut shell that would leave the private sector crowded out for finances and running capital. The Govt maight even armtwist the banks into giving long term on Clouded Fears..
Deciple of stocks doctor
on 25/05/10
Dr Sir way to go. Really awesome of you to predict about the sharp fall. Mohan. on Waiting ..waiting .....???
on 21/01/10
DR ji every bit you mentioned today worked out. Great job on THE METAL RALLY
on 07/01/10
Way to go Dr. Sir all 3 stocks up today on NEW YEAR- WEALTH CREATION
on 06/01/10
GOOD TO COMPARE WITH THE "BEAUTY-SENSEX" on The symmetry and possibility….
on 19/01/09
Beuty of women and a security?What mathematicians unravelled after a very long research is already known to savvy stock traders. 0.7 is a fibanacci no.When a small cap amasses 70% of revenues of their peer group, the stock traders see it bful and it is likely that one day it amasses 70% of total business of thier large group peers.After studying the movements of women for years, finally we get scientific confirmation of what we're seeing: Researchers at Cambridge University in the U.K. have figured out exactly what makes a perfect swivel-hipped walk with "a more angular swaying and bounce to the hips." The mathematicians got out their slide rules, calculators, blow-up dolls and binoculars, scientifically determining the perfect ratio of waist to hips. Their results? The closer that ratio is to 0.7 (waist measurement is 70% of the hip measurement), the sexier the swagger. And guess who has that exact ratio? Jessica Alba, pictured above. Follow us for more examples (NSFW).Other babes of on The symmetry and possibility….
Always Truth Teller
on 19/01/09
U S AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY The Jurassic auto and idea park The U.S. auto giants are an example of how things work in the age of unbridled corporate power. Of how the collapse of restraint on that power fractures economy and society, writes P Sainath. 21 November 2008 - It is unfair to call the United States auto industry dinosaurs, as some now do. It is certainly unfair to the dinosaurs. The 'Terrible Lizards' did not lay the basis for their own extinction or that of myriad other species. The U.S. automobile companies did - and will take large numbers of jobs, workers and businesses with them. It is more like the asteroid hit on the earth which is presumed to have fried the dinosaurs. But that's unfair to the asteroid. The U.S. auto giants General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are more a fine example of how things work in the age of unbridled corporate power. Of how the collapse of restraint on that power must fracture economy and society. They also set the very standards that the Indian on The Global pressure…….
Always Truth Teller
on 17/01/09
TRICKSTERS Have you ever wondered what the moon really is? The earth's moon is a beautiful sphere that symbolically represents many things to many different people. The American Natives see a leaping rabbit on the moon, not a face, and therefore fertility, as the lunar cycle of 28 days, and 13 moons a year, coincides with a woman's reproductive cycle.Science tells us that all moons in our solar system lack illumination from within, but are powerful reflectors of the sun's light. The satellites that orbit the earth function in much the same manner. Our moon is meant no disrespect by the fact that it does not produce its own light. The moon plays a great part in bringing light to the earth during dark nights, exerting gravity upon the waters of the earth, marking planting cycles, and inspiring poetic verse and music. The moon's monthly transformation . . . from the silver sliver of new, to half, to full and the often larger than reality full rising moon of autumn, adds beauty and on Challenge for market…..
Always Truth Teller
on 11/01/09
Joseph Spence wrote that Lord Radnor reported to him "When Sir Isaac Newton was asked about the continuance of the rising of South Sea stock… He answered 'that he could not calculate the madness of Newton's niece Catherine Conduitt reported that he had participated and "lost twenty thousand pounds. Of this, however, he never much liked to hear…"[4] This was a fortune at the time . onMay happen again…..
Always Truth Teller
on 10/01/09
Highly learned man he is Mr Raju maight have got inspiration from the salad oil scandal.Just see how easy it is to fool American Express leave alone poor speculators of Godavari districts.Salad oil scandalFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Salad Oil Scandal, also referred to as the "Soybean Scandal," was a major corporate scandal in 1963 that ultimately caused over $150 million (~$1.1 billion in 2008 dollars[1]) in losses to corporations including American Express, Bank of America and Bank Leumi, as well as many international trading companies. The scandal's ability to push otherwise cautious and conservative lenders into increasingly risky practices has prompted some comparisons to recent financial crises including the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage   financial crisis.[1][edit] DescriptionThe scandal involved the company Allied Crude Vegetable Oil in New Jersey, led by Tino De Angelis, which discovered that it could obtain loans based upon the inventory of its salad oil.[2]Ships on THE UNANSWERED…………
Always Truth Teller
on 09/01/09
Indian investors usually vote with their feet when they are unhappy with a company’s decision or if there are corporate governance issues.Satyam Computer Services Ltd is a classic case, where shareholders have exited in droves, leading to a 40% drop in the company’s share price in just six trading sessions. The massive wealth destruction of Satyam’s shareholders seems all the more unfair in light of the fact that the promoter group, which is responsible for it, holds just 8.6% in the company.Satyam currently has a market capitalization of just Rs9,070 crore, although the cash on its books is at least Rs5,300 crore. Even if one were to assign a lowly price-earnings valuation multiple of five times trailing earnings, the company should have a market cap of around Rs9,000 crore.Satyam’s current stock price suggests that the markets are assigning no value to the cash on the company’s books. The company may have backtracked from the acquisition of two promoter-owned companies for $1.6 on The strength gained….
Always Truth Teller
on 31/12/08
discipline, focus, analytical ability, emotional control and ... ABOVE ALL THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT THE MARKET. on The wait and watch ….
on 30/12/08
Your Subconscious Mind and TradingWhole books have been written on this subject, but here is the bottom line ... Deep subconscious tendencies will be brought to the surface and manifested in your emotional behavior and ultimately in your wins and losses, when you start trading the markets. And as previously stated, most people's deep emotional tendencies are not suited to making money in the markets - unless, of course, they change them. If, at a deep subconscious level, you really want to lose, the market will allow you to do that. If you really want to be successful it will allow you to do that too but it will demand from you - discipline, focus, analytical ability, emotional control and ... Self Analysis and Goal Setting. on The wait and watch ….
Always Truth Teller
on 30/12/08
VERY GOOD ARTICLE.PLEASE KEEP POSTING FOR THE READERS. on The Air strike ?…
on 25/12/08
THE IDEAS OF ANALYZING A GIFTED SITUATION BASED ON THE HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY IS GREAT TO READ BUT FINDING AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO PREDICT IS ALWAYS ADMIRED.THE ARTICLE IS INTERESTING TO READ. onThe security concerns…
on 25/12/08
Peter Schiff - A Nightmare Before Christmas 2009.Like many pragmatic economists I have always warned that rapid expansions of government debt would result in inflation and higher interest rates. The explanation was always simple: rising supply of government debt inflates the money supply and weakens the government’s ability to service its debt through legitimate means.But In recent months, government has flooded the market with hundreds of new Treasury obligations and telegraphed its intention to increase the deluge even more. In response, both bond prices and the dollar have risen. This benign reaction has led many to the happy conclusion that the doom and gloomers are wrong and that bailouts and economic “stimuli” can be financed with deficit spending without any adverse consequences on interest rates or consumer prices. Recent action in the foreign exchange markets suggests these hopes will prove illusory. The renewed strength in gold, together with the long over do rupture of the on The Air strike ?…
Always Truth Teller
on 24/12/08
Credit crunch boosting the 'lipstick effect'LONDON: The recent global meltdown has seen an upswing in what is known the "lipstick effect", as sales of cosmetics are rising with more women trying to cheer themselves up by spending money in make-up rather than cars, holidays and kitchens. Economists have said that   due to the financial crisis, people are steering away from making extravagant purchases like cars, holidays and kitchens and are instead spending their money on small luxuries like make-up. And the sales figures from some of the world's big cosmetic companies - LOreal, Beiersdorf and Shiseido-reflect the theory. In the first half of the year LOreal sales were up 5.3 per cent. The theory was first identified in the Great Depression, when industrial production in the US halved, but sales of cosmetics rose between 1929 and 1933. "The evidence shows that when budgets are squeezed people simply substitute large extravagances for small luxuries," the Telegraph quoted RAB Capital on The security concerns…
hindunilvr stock holder
on 23/12/08
I don't worry too much about pointing fingers at the past. I operate on the theory that every saint has a past, every sinner has a future." Warren Buffett on The Maddoff..Losses...
Always Truth Teller
on 16/12/08
I Knew Bernie Madoff Was Cheating--That's Why I Invested with HimSpecifically, we're hearing that the smart money KNEW Bernie had to be cheating, because the returns he was generating were impossibly good. Many Wall Streeters suspected the wrong   rigged game, though: They thought it was insider trading, not a Ponzi scheme. And here's the best part: That's why they invested with him.For years and years I've heard people say that [Bernie's] investment performance was too good to be true. The returns were too steady -- like GE earnings under Welch -- and too high given the supposed strategy. One Madoff investor, himself a legend, told me that Madoff's performance "just doesn't make sense. The numbers can't be straight." Another sophisticated Madoff investor actually went through trade confirms in order to reverse-engineer the strategy and said, "it doesn't add up.So why did these smart and skeptical investors keep investing? They, like many Madoff investors, assumed Madoff was somehow onThe rally rallied…….
Always Truth Teller
on 13/12/08
Ex-Nasdaq chairman arrested on fraud charge in NYCFriday December 12, 1:07 pm ET By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Writer Ex-Nasdaq chairman arrested on securities fraud charge in NYC; accused of $50B `Ponzi scheme' NEW YORK (AP) -- A Wall Street powerbroker for nearly 50 years who built an influential firm has confessed to a massive fraud scheme that will cost investors at least $50 billion, federal authorities say. Bernard L. Madoff, 70, facing a single count of securities fraud, declined to speak with reporters after a federal magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan ordered him released Thursday night on $10 million bail.Andrew M. Calamari, associate director of enforcement in the Securities and Exchange Commission's New York office, said the SEC had filed a civil securities fraud charge as well and was alleging "a stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportions."The SEC said it was seeking emergency relief for investors, including an asset freeze and the on The rally rallied…….
Always Truth Teller
on 12/12/08
NO PLACE IS SERENE AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RIG FOR A CARTEL. THE BEAUTY IS THAT THE RETAILER DREAMS OF HIS PIE GARNERS ULTIMATELY IN THE DREAMS ONLY. on The US won’t….
on 11/12/08
'Gold Cartel suppressing, manipulating gold price'By Bill MurphyThe Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee’s basic assertion for the past 9 ½ years is that there is a Gold Cartel out there suppressing the price of gold. It consists of the US Government, including the Fed and Treasury, various other central banks, and bullion banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase. The motives of “the cabal” are to give support to the dollar, keep US interest rates lower than they should be, and to tone down the widely watched US barometer of US financial market health, that being the gold price. After all, whenever the price of gold soars, it congers up talk of too much inflation, a sinking dollar, or a crisis of some sort … all negative for Wall Street and the incumbent administration. Therefore, “Shoot the Messenger” is The Gold Cartel’s key mission. The suppression of the price of gold was the essence of Robert Rubin’s Strong Dollar Policy. What else did the US do to effect that policy? Talk? on The US won’t….
Always Truth Teller
on 11/12/08
By George Friedmanof stratforIn an interview published this Sunday in The New York Times, we laid out a potential scenario for the current Indo-Pakistani crisis. We began with an Indian strike on Pakistan, precipitating a withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the Afghan border, resulting in intensified Taliban activity along the border and a deterioration in the U.S. position in Afghanistan, all culminating in an emboldened Iran. The scenario is not unlikely, assuming India chooses to strike.Our argument that India is likely to strike focused, among other points, on the weakness of the current Indian government and how it is likely to fall under pressure from the opposition and the public if it does not act decisively. An unnamed Turkish diplomat involved in trying to mediate the dispute has argued that saving a government is not a good reason to go to war. That is a good argument, except that in this case, not saving the government is unlikely to prevent a war, either. If India’s on The Global pull but…….
Always Truth Teller
on 10/12/08
THANKS FOR YOUR OPENION ON THIS BLOG AND KEEP YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT. on The RBI announces…
on 09/12/08
The riding of a bicycle is balacing the gravity but riding on this market always slippery and crushes many a times when one stands agaist the trend. on The haunt of global…..
on 09/12/08
The 8 year cycle is a good concept can be related to may areas of our life.GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO READ. on The Vengeance of Bulls…
on 09/12/08
This is a great blog and I'd like to Post a CommentDid you hear the good news? Obama is making it better for investors already! Most investors don't realize how much money there is out there now. During economic times like this, there is more money to be had than ever. Because of the bailouts and economy, the government and lenders are bending over backwards to bail you out too as a way to jump start the economy.Regardless of what you hear, there is people getting tons of cheap money for personal use, businesses, buy homes, pay off debt, investing, and more. These people have done the research, just like I have. Bailout is for YOU on The RBI announces…
on 07/12/08
Many things we think simple are infact misconceptons.Just see what it makes a bike to take a turn , you will be horrified to know the truth, the same thing is true also of stock markets.Counter steering:Steering a bike’s easy - you either lean into the turn, or turn the bars right to go right, and left to go left, right? Wrong. Once you’re on the move, shifting your bodyweight to try and lean into a turn has almost no effect. If you don’t believe us, try riding along with no hands and leaning your weight one way or the other - you can initiate a gentle curve, but tighter turns are impossible unless you flick the whole bike violently, in which case you’re indirectly turning the bars anyway. So you have to use the handlebars but not the way you might think - you need to turn them the opposite way to the way you want to go. It’s called counter steering and here’s how you do it.1. The approachAs you come up to the point where you want to turn, you want the bike settled, so get your on The haunt of global…..
Always Truth Telleer
on 06/12/08

Negative news building..slowly!!!!!


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ COVERS TOP stories….

HSBC in Settlement Talks With U.S. Over Money Laundering
HSBC Holdings Plc, which is under investigation by U.S. regulators for laundering funds of sanctioned nations including Iran and Sudan, is in talks to settle the matter, two people with knowledge of the case said.
The bank, Europe’s largest by market value, made a $700 million provision in July for any U.S. fines after a Senate Committee found it had given terrorists and drug cartels access to the U.S. financial system. That sum might increase, Chief Executive Officer Stuart Gulliver has said...
A classic story, ..we need to understand how aged banks also resort for certain practices…..
Jurors who zipped through more than 600 questions in three days to arrive at their verdict in the intellectual-property battle between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. had as their leader an engineer with a patent to his name…..
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'HSBC involved with drug cartels'

New Delhi: US prosecutors, who have launched an investigation into the money transaction by some global banks, suspect HSBC could have laundered money for Mexican drug cartels and moved cash for Saudi Arabian banks with ties to terrorists.
According to a New York Times report, Federal authorities, with knowledge of the investigation, said federal and state prosecutors are also investigating whether HSBC flouted US law by transferring money through its American subsidiary for sanctioned nations, including Iran, Sudan and North Korea….http://www.financialexpress.com/news/hsbc-involved-with-drug-cartels/993057/
New Delhi: Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India plunged by over 78 per cent in June, the third straight monthly fall, to USD 1.24 billion, from USD 5.65 billion in the year-ago period, reflecting the impact of slowing global economy.
Experts have attributed the contraction in foreign inflows to global and domestic economic problems and asked the government to push big-ticket reforms to restore the confidence of global investors. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/fdi-inflows-78-to-usd-1.24-bn/992739/

Europe’s big bang for bank rules set to sputter in 2013

REUTERS Frankfurt/London: A hoped-for big bang start next year for new rules to make banks safer is set to sputter in Europe, creating more uncertainty in a sector struggling to win back investor confidence lost in the financial crisis. Basel III, the core reform of global banking rules hammered out following the 2007-2009 financial meltdown, starts on January 1….   http://www.financialexpress.com/news/europes-big-bang-for-bank-rules-set-to-sputter-in-2013/992735/

China confronts mounting piles of unsold goods

 

Guangzhou: After three decades of torrid growth, China is encountering an unfamiliar problem with its newly struggling economy: a huge buildup of unsold goods that is cluttering shop floors, clogging car dealerships and filling factory warehouses. The glut of everything from steel and household appliances to cars and apartments is hampering China’s efforts to emerge from a sharp economic slowdown. It has also produced a series of price wars and has led manufacturers to redouble efforts to export what they cannot sell at home. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/china-confronts-mounting-piles-of-unsold-goods/992732/

 

BNRSTOCKS- August 25,


Thursday, August 23, 2012

BNRSTOCKS


Tuesday, August 21, 2012

TELECOM GROWTH & EXPANSION ...WHEN?


Indian Telecom Spectrum Auction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2010, the 3G and 4G telecom spectrum were auctioned in a highly competitive bidding. 
The winners were awarded spectrum in September, and Tata Docomo was the first private operator to launch 3G services in India.[1] The government has earned INR67,719 crore (US$12.26 billion) from the 3G spectrum auction. While the broadband wireless spectrum auction generated a revenue of INR38,500 crore (US$6.97 billion)
Together 3G and BWA auction, the government of India earned a total revenue of over INR106,219 crore (US$19.23 billion).

RELIANCE ANNOUNCE RECENTLY THAT IT WOULD START 4-G IN MUMBAI. THE OTHER-PLAYERS MOSTLY AT FENCE. FOR NAME SAKE THEY DID SOME ROLL-OUT BUT NO TELECOM PLAYER IS BETTING NOR THE GOVT. IS PUSHING. 
THE GROWTH IN TELECOM SECTOR IS STALLED FOR NOW BUT HAS HUGE POTENTIAL TO GRAB THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STORED IN. THE MOBILE BANKING AND THE DATA DOWN LOAD, YOUTH AND ENTERTAINMENT ARE MONEY SPINNERS APART FROM GOVT- eCommerce. EVERYTHING WILL BE IN VIDEO CONFERENCING....JUST BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!
EYE ON THE TELECOM STOCKS FOR NEXT 4-5 YRS.

NSE-THE GREAT STOCK EXCHANGE....


 
LEADING THE PACK
NSE — A CUT ABOVE THE REST
  • The world's largest derivative exchange ahead of NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq
  • Over 14 million out of 30 million Indian tax payers trade on NSE
  • Installed 2,00,000 trading terminals – highest in the country
  • 45% retail cash market turnover comes from Tier-III cities shows penetration
‘NIRVANA’ STATUS
  • Runs the world’s largest electronic speed highways connecting 2,000 towns and cities
  • Implemented horizontal scalability to handle 10 times the current order flow
  • Trading at speed of light, can handle two billion order messages per sec
  • Has co-location facility for over 200 racks 
  • Each rack handles 2-3 servers, each server can trade for over Rs 200 crore
  • Among few exchanges doing real-time risk management
  • Facilitates tick-by-tick data feed, useful for high frequency or algo trading
  • Operates one of the country's largest private cloud ‘NOW’ with 36,000 daily log-ins
  • http://www.businessstandard.com/india/news/nse-leadschargetech-highway/483859/

Monday, August 20, 2012

Oprah Winfrey- black female billionaire

OPPORTUNITIES ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO CREATE AND MAKE USE OF THEM TO SCALE THE LADDER OF SUCCESS.......NEVER STUMPED BY THE DISAPPOINTMENTS AS THEY ARE PASSING CLOUDS IN THEIR JOURNEY TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS ......

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Rags to riches: Oprah WinfreyHow Oprah Winfrey made her fortune

Emma Lunn – Thu, Aug 16, 2012 13:20 BST
Chat show host Oprah Winfrey holds the title of the only black female billionaire in the world, with Forbes putting her net worth at $2.7bn. Not bad for someone born into poverty. But how did she make her fortune?
Despite 'Oprah' being a household name and the title of everything from an awards-winning talk show to a magazine, it wasn’t the name Winfrey was given at birth. She was christened Orpah but her friends and family found it difficult to pronounce and so effectively renamed her Oprah.
Winfrey didn’t have the best starts in life. Her teenage single mother struggled to make ends meet in rural Mississippi and she lived with her grandmother for the first six years of her life.
The family later moved to a tough inner-city neighbourhood in Milwaukee where her childhood was blighted by sexual abuse and rape. She was sent to a juvenile detention home at 13, and aged 14 gave birth to a premature baby which later died.Clearly bright, Winfrey started making the most of her intelligence when her mother sent her to live with her father in Nashville. She got her first job in radio while still at school, won a scholarship to Tennessee State University and was crowned Miss Black Tennessee by age 18.
TV Times
By the age of 19 she was co-presenter of the local evening news and the station’s first African-American anchor. A move to Baltimore saw her headhunted to co-host a talk show called People Are Talking. 
Next she moved to Chicago to take over a low-rated morning TV show. Her emotional confessional style and the ability to get people to open up saw the show quickly become the station’s number one talk show. It was renamed The Oprah Winfrey show and nationally syndicated. 
Winfrey was a shrewd businesswoman right from the start. She formed her own production company Harpo Productions – which is Oprah spelt backwards – and negotiated ownership of The Oprah Winfrey Show.  ......................................................................................
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-oprah-winfrey-made-her-fortune.html;_ylt=AhFsBa.LNFrHN4kCDxVAKLLSr7FG;_ylu=X3oDMTRmcG5xMWZlBG1pdANGZWF0dXJlZCBDYXJvdXNlbCBIb21lIEZQBHBrZwMzOTU3ODcxYy1iNzY1LTM5MjItYjRmNS04ZWZmYzE1ZTU1OTUEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhRmVhdHVyZWRDYXJvdXNlbAR2ZXIDZDMyMGViOTMtZTc5Yy0xM

Sunday, August 19, 2012

FOR NOW FAILED- FACE BOOK!!!!


Should You Buy Facebook Shares? Read This FirstBy Alex Dumortier, CFA, The Motley FoolPosted 2:07PM 05/17/12 

"I would invest in Facebook; I don't care what the opening price is."-- Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple (NAS: AAPL)
"If you're a growth investor, you more or less have to own [Facebook] and hold your nose at the initial price." -- Lawrence Haverty Jr., Associate Portfolio Manager, The Gabelli Multimedia Trust
If you're the billionaire co-founder of the most successful tech company in history and you simply have to own some shares in the hot new technology company, go ahead and buy shares without any consideration for price. If you're a growth-fund manager and your primary concern is minimizing your career risk, it's "Damn the torpedoes -- full speed ahead!"; after all, unlike Admiral Farragut, you're not actually in the boat with your investors. If you're neither and you invest for profit rather than entertainment, I urge you to hear my appeal: Observe, don't participate, in Facebook's IPO. Climb aboard my bubble machine! Price matters. How did the bankers come up with their valuation for Facebook shares? They used three methods, but the one to which they assigned the highest weighting -- 50% -- simply amounts to looking at the most recent prices at which the shares changed hands in private markets open to qualified investors. This has produced a massive "greater fool" dynamic, as each round of "investors" anchors on the price paid at the preceding stage:
Stage one: Qualified investors are eager to buy shares in the private market. Why wouldn't they be? It's a nearly sure thing the stock will appreciate once it becomes publicly traded.
Stage two: Bankers award a favored group of investors shares in the initial public offering. The bankers' indicative valuation is largely based on the prices paid in private share markets. IPO investors expect that the shares will pop once they hit the secondary market.
Stage three: It's a stampede as investors (including numerous individual investors) who couldn't get in during stages one and two finally get the chance to get their hands on some shares, sending prices higher yet. At this stage, investors will need to find a greater fool (small "f," mind you) to realize a quick profit, but they risk running out of fools and becoming the greatest fool.................

How Facebook Could Be Worth Far More Than $100 Billion

Posted 3:07PM 05/17/12
I've said before that I'm interested in buying shares of the Facebook IPO. I'm still interested, even though my earlier prediction -- that the social network would command a $50 billion valuation -- now appears to have been off by about 50%.
Some see that as a problem. How could Facebook's $4 billion in annual revenues be worth $100 billion when Apple (NAS: AAPL) nets just five times as much market value while producing 35 times as much revenue? Google's (NAS: GOOG) $40 billion in sales is worth just $200 billion in market cap. And don't forget Renren (NYS: RENN) , China's version of Facebook. The social-networking site is profitable and using Groupon-style tactics to milk revenue from its 147 million active user base, yet commands less than $3 billion in U.S. market value. There's virtually no precedent for Facebook's stunning valuation, but there is a theory.
It's called Metcalfe's law, which states that the value of a telecommunications network is equal to the square of the connected nodes. Credited to Robert Metcalfe, founder ofHewlett-Packard division 3Com and one of the originators of the Ethernet networking protocol we depend on as modern Internet users, the theory describes the geometry of network effects.  There's value to the idea. Network participants create value when they interact with each other. Thus, more participants create more value, as has been the case at eBay(NAS: EBAY) throughout its history. Facebook benefits from similar math. The larger the social network gets, the more valuable its data and advertising platform becomes. Enter Metcalfe's law. According to the formula, Facebook's 900 million active users compound to create a network worth 8.1 x 10 to the 17th power, or $8,100,000,000,000,000,000. Crazy, you say? Undoubtedly, especially since Metcalfe's law was originally intended to describe the value of fixed cost nodes rather than human participants with varying behaviors..............http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/05/17/how-facebook-could-be-worth-far-more-than-100-bill/

FACEBOOK- Zuckerberg, huge losses

Form May-17th to Aug-17, FACEBOOK investors lost nearly heavily close to 50 Billon Dollars, than any other high value stocks. The IPO price raised from $ 34 dollars to $ 38 dollars in the first place, made a huge $104 billion dollar IPO with fan fare. The hype was not continued any longer, lost half the value now trading at $ 19.57.
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Zuckerberg admits Facebook stock plunge ‘painful’ to watch

AGENCIES Posted: Saturday, Aug 18, 2012 at 1138 hrs IST
Zuckerberg admits Facebook stock plunge ‘painful’ to watch:Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly admitted that the firm’s stock market tumble has been “painful” to watch, while addressing a meeting to boost the morale of his staff.
He gathered the social networking site’s staff to discuss the issue ahead of the release of an extra 271 million shares this week, which cut Facebook shares to just 19.87 dollars, almost half their 38 dollar flotation price.
According to a news report, witnesses said that at the meeting, the 28-year-old chief executive was asked if Facebook employees were allowed to talk about the firm’s troubles on Wall Street.
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/zuckerberg-admits-facebook-stock-plunge-painful-to-watch/989960/


Judge rejects Facebook settlement over ad feature

AGENCIES

Posted: Saturday, Aug 18, 2012 at 1038 hrs IST

San Francisco: In an order on Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco listed several concerns with the proposed settlement, including a request for more information on why the agreement does not award any money to members.
Seeborg said the company and attorneys for the plaintiffs could try to modify their agreement to address his concerns.
"We continue to believe the settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate," a Facebook spokesman said in a statement. "We appreciate the court's guidance and look forward to addressing the questions raised in the order."
Representatives for the plaintiffs could not immediately be reached for comment.
Five Facebook members filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against the social networking site, saying its Sponsored Stories feature violated California law by publicizing users' "likes" of certain advertisers without paying them or giving them a way to opt out. The case involved 100 million potential class members.
As part of the proposed settlement, Facebook agreed to allow members more control over how their personal information is used. In the opinion of one economist hired by the plaintiffs, contained in a court filing, the value to Facebook members resulting from the changes is about $103 million.
Facebook had also agreed to pay $10 million for legal fees, and $10 million to charity, according to court documents.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Standard Chartered pay PENALTY


Civil Penalty: StanChart pays $340 mn

AGENCIES

Posted: Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 at 1211 hrs ISTNew York: Global banking giant Standard Chartered has agreed to pay USD 340 million to New York's top banking regulator, settling allegations that it hid thousands of transactions worth billions of dollars with the Iranian government.
Under the settlement reached with the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Standard Chartered will pay a "civil penalty" of USD 340 million and would have a monitoring system for a term of at least two years.
The monitors would report directly to DFS and evaluate the money-laundering risk controls in the New York branch and implementation of appropriate corrective measures.
The settlement came after StanChart was accused by the New York regulator of hiding about 60,000 secret transactions with the Iranian government, involving a whopping USD 250 billion, and exposing the US financial system to terrorists,
weapon dealers and drug kingpins.
New York Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawsky said DFS examiners shall be placed on site at the bank and StanChart would permanently install personnel within its New York branch to oversee and audit any offshore money- laundering due diligence and monitoring undertaken by it.
"The parties have agreed that the conduct at issue involved transactions of at least USD 250 billion," Lawsky said, adding that DFS would continue to work with its federal and state partners on matter.
In the wake of the allegations over Iran transactions, Standard Chartered's Chief Executive Peter Sands had flown to New York to take personal control of the bank's attempts to reach a settlement with the US regulators over allegations it
hid transactions involving Iran.
Last week, the New York banking regulator had in its order said that the bank must demonstrate why its state banking licence should not be revoked over the transactions.
The agreement now enables the bank to avoid having its licence to operate in New York revoked.
Lawsky had termed the bank a "rogue institution" for breaking US sanctions.
StanChart had "strongly" rejected the allegations made by DFS. It had said it was conducting a review of its historical compliance and was discussing that review with US agencies, including the state financial services department, Department
of Justice, the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Federal Reserve Group of New York.
It said the New York order does not present a "full and accurate picture of the facts".
Since the allegations became public just over a week ago the firm's shares have lost around 15 per cent of their value.

Rs22,451 crore loss-IOC


IOC reports Rs22,451 crore loss, biggest ever by any listed company

Published: Thursday, Aug 9, 2012, 19:23 IST 
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI
Indian Oil Corp (IOC) today posted the nation's biggest quarterly net loss of Rs22,451 crore after the government failed to compensate it for capping auto and cooking fuel prices. Simultaneously, Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), the nation's third largest fuel retailer, also posted a net loss of Rs9,249 crore in April-June, the second biggest quarterly loss by a listed corporate.
The government has in the year year not compensated oil firms for selling diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene below cost this year as the Rs40,000 crore fuel subsidy it had budget has all been exhausted in paying compensation for last fiscal. Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), India's second largest fuel retailer, will report quarterly earnings tomorrow and is likely to post over Rs9,000 crore of net loss. IOC, which like other retailers is living off borrowed money, warned that it may soon exhaust the limit to which it can take debt and sourcing crude oil (raw material for making petrol, diesel and other petroleum products) would become difficult as international sellers don't give credit.
The three state-run fuel retailers are losing about Rs710 crore per day on selling diesel, domestic cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene at government controlled rates which are way below market price. Besides, the government's "inflationary concerns" have not allowed them to raise price of petrol - a fuel that was deregulated in June 2010 - even though they are losing over Rs3 per litre. IOC Chairman R S Butola said the government should realise that oil firms are on the brink and fuel subsidies need to be addressed urgently.
The three fuel retailers are projected to lose a record Rs177,715 crore this fiscal as they sell diesel at a discount of Rs12.13 a litre to its cost, kerosene at Rs28.54 and LPG at Rs231 per 14.2-kg cylinder discount. The government, which is struggling to contain budget deficit and runaway inflation, has not just failed to compensate state-run retailers for selling fuel below cost this fiscal but also not provided about Rs10,000 crore of the promised subsidy for 2011-12.
What has made matters worse is rupee's slump against the US dollar, making import of crude oil costlier. The nation relies on imported crude to meet is almost 80% need. "We had a net loss of Rs22,450.95 crore in April-June quarter as compared to Rs3,718.70 crore loss in the same period a year ago," Butola said.
This was primarily because IOC was not compensated Rs17,485 crore for selling diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene at a discount to its cost and another Rs950 crore lost on selling below its cost. The delay in getting compensation has increased PSU oil firms' interest payments on debt they have taken for buying crude oil among other things. IOC's borrowings have gone up by a masive Rs15,000 crore in the April-June quarter to Rs90,923 crore.
The company can borrow a maximum of Rs110,000 crore and if losses on fuel sales continue that borrowing limit will soon be reached, after which it will not get any finances impacting the company's ability to buy crude oil from international markets, he said. The company's debt-equity ratio has deteroriated ato 2.57:1. Also, its capital expenditure will have to be pruned.
"As of now capex funding has been tied-up. Overall, if financial constraints continue to play in remaining part of the year, there is bound to be impact," he said. Shares of IOC fell 1.8% to Rs251.60 at the close on BSE, the lowest level since June 19.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Education - HUGE BUSINESS!! GRAB...!!!!!


Next Education India Pvt Ltd, a digital learning technology company, will raise Rs 150 crore from private equity players by December end.
“We are in talks with them. We hope to conclude the deal by the year-end,” Beas Dev Ralhan, Chief Executive Officer, Next Education, has said. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said the company had so far invested Rs 250 crore, including Rs 60 crore on research and development of content. It raised the money from internal accruals and some debt from Kotak. It clocked revenue of Rs 100 crore in the last financial year.
While the Indian education market (including higher education) is put at $40 billion, digital education market is pegged at $2-3 billion. The company has tie-ups with 4,000 schools (in CBSE and ICSE streams) across the country and claims a student user base of eight lakh.
“Of this, 50,000 are paid customers, with 60 per cent of them coming back to us for content in renewals,” he said. “The State board student population is 10-15 times bigger than the Central education streams. We are expecting a growth of 30 per cent in business from this arm,” said Ankur Agrawal, Executive Vice-President (Operations), Next Education.

SUGARS - BUY BUY!!!

AT ONE TIME BYE BYE SUGARS IS NOW BUY BUY SUGARS.
I RECOMMENDED SUGARS IN JUNE-JULY PERIOD. I AND MY FAMILY HAD SOME POSITIONS. I RECOMMENDED DALMIA AT 12-12.50 RANGE IN JUNE. IN THAT PERIOD ALL SUGARS ARE AT THEIR YEARLY LOWS. SO I SUGGEST TO BUY FOR DOUBLE OR TRIPLE RETURNS FROM THEIR LOWS. WHEN THE MARKETS TAKE AS DIP, FOCUS TO BUY SUGARS. THE MORE THE INVENTORY, THE MORE PROFITS TO POUR. GOOD LUCK...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:50

Dalmia Bharat Sugar can test Rs 24-25: SP Tulsian

Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries can test Rs 24-25 in next six months, says SP Tulsian, sptulsian.com.

Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries  can test Rs 24-25 in next six months, says SP Tulsian, sptulsian.com.


Tulsian told CNBC-TV18, "Dalmia Bharat Sugar has three sugar mills with a capacity of 22,500 tonne crushing per day with matching co-gen facility and & distillery of 80 KLPD. If you see the sugar performance of all the companies, the inventory gain in some of the cases, we have seen that happening though, that has not got reflected into the financial results of the Q1 of this company as well as of Balrampur Sugar."


He further added, "The main point or the triggers for these companies are the kind of inventory they are carrying in their books and the unrealized gain they are sitting on. In this case the company is having an inventory of close to about Rs 450 crore as on 30th June after they have declared the results for quarter ended June which has been quite good with PAT of close to about Rs 10 crore. So the inventory of Rs 450 crore has an unrealized gain of close to about Rs 45 crore."


"If you see the financial performance or the expected output from the UP it is estimated that probably the UP based sugar mills are going to perform the best because of the drought situation prevailing in the Maharashtra and Karnataka and more specially in the Eastern UP where the monsoon has been quite good. Because if you take a call on the Western UP and the Central UP the monsoon is slightly inferior than what the Eastern UP region has seen."


"The companies overall are likely to perform better in terms of the performance going ahead in view of the firm sugar prices now prevailing at about Rs 34-35 per kg. So, the crux for the recommendation that the whole of FY13 is likely to see an EPS of close to about Rs 6 for this stock. If you go by the book value parameter also the share is looking on fundamental basis quite cheap with book value of close to about Rs 54-55 and with expected EPS of close to about Rs 6 for FY13 as I said partly because of the inventory gain and partly because of the better working."'


"I think this looks a good midsize sugar mill, if you take a call on the Avadh Sugars, Upper Ganges or Simbhaoli Sugars or for that matter even Dhampur, Dhampur though have a higher capacity. So taking a relative call on all the sugar stocks and more specially if I focus on the UP based sugar mills this stock looks quite good and one can expect a price of Rs 24-25 in next six months or so."

Monday, August 13, 2012

VERITAS- DLF. ROCM AND INDIABULLS....

Indiabulls accuses Veritas of helping short-sellers
Indiabulls alleges that report was released to select few before wider publishing
N Sundaresha Subramanian / New Delhi Aug 10, 2012, 00:21 IST
Under attack from Canada-based Veritas for alleged governance lapses, the IndiaBulls group today accused the firm of profiteering by helping subscribers to enter into short positions ahead of the wider release of the report. In a police complaint, the company has alleged that Veritas analyst Neeraj Monga demanded money and offered to delay the wider release of the report. “Indiabulls officers filed a complaint to the police against the malafide Veritas report, along with an email evidence where Neeraj Monga has demanded money through his personal email and that if monies are given in time, then he would hold back the report,” the group said in a statement.
According to a senior group official, “Heavy short positions were built up in the stock ahead of the release of the report on Wednesday, enabling people to take home profits by squaring off when the prices fell.”
Data from the exchanges seem to suggest there was a build-up of shorts in IndiaBulls Real Estate, the only group stock in the F&O segment. According to data from the exchanges, open interest in IndiaBulls Real Estate shot up from 11.9 million on August 1, the date of the latest report to 16.2 million on August 8, when the report was widely circulated among brokers and market players.

Short selling refers to selling stocks that one does not own, with a view to buy these later when the prices fall. In India, direct short sales is not allowed. However, traders use the futures and options (F&O) segment, where such transactions are allowed, to execute short sales.
Among the three stocks covered by the latest IndiaBulls report, only IndiaBulls Real Estate is available for trade in the F&O segment. The increase in open interest coinciding with a fall in the share price indicated that the shorts were building up in the counter, said brokers. Between August 1 and August 8, the stock fell by 4.4 per cent as against a two per cent gain in the Sensex.
Similar build-up in open interest accompanied by a fall in the share price was noticed in the earlier reports by Veritas this year. On March 2, a damning report by Veritas on the largest real estate player, DLF, was circulated. Between February 24 and March 2, the open interest had gone up from 22 million shares to 30 million, while the stock price fell 10 per cent. The broader market fell 1.6 per cent.
On June 19, a Veritas report on Reliance Communications setting the target price of Rs 15 surfaced. Over the preceding week, open interest in the counter went up from 57 million to 68 million as the stock shed nearly five per cent. The Sensex was flat during the period.
The Indiabulls statement further added that the Veritas report dated August 1, 2012 was released to certain select group of people before being released to the media and institutional shareholders after seven days on August 8, 2012, along with a TV interview on August 8 by Neeraj Monga. Monga openly tried to distort facts and presented erroneous data in his answers for fulfiling his personal agenda of profiteering, the statement alleged.




In the email sent to a London based hedge fund Altimas Partners on August 7, Monga allegedly demanded $40,000 for subscription to Veritas reports for the current year. He is also said to have offered to delay wider circulation of the Indiabulls report if the fund officials promised to subscribe. "Our first year subscription price is $50K. For the remainder of the current year we are signing up for $40K. We plan to publish at least two more reports for the rest of the year. We have published on five stocks so far this year. The report on DLF was published in March and that on RCom in June. Our other report covering an additional three stocks is not public yet. If you sign today we can hold the wider release of the third report back by one day for you to read it and take action if you so desire," Monga allegedly wrote in this email.

In an email response Naresh Monga of Veritas said, “Indiabulls appears to be basing its complaint on an email from Prashant Periwal, a fund manager from Altima Partners in London, who is a fund manager who owns Indiabulls group stock and who contacted us for our research. Veritas’ commercial practices are of the highest standards and integrity. We are disappointed that Indiabulls is attempting to discredit our company and us individually, rather than addressing the issues outlined in our research.” Monga added that Veritas stands by its research, which is based on publicly available documents .

“We have not contacted Indiabulls before or after our research was published. We are an independent research company servicing institutional investors and funds. We sell research for a subscription fee, as is the industry practice in India and the world over. We are regulated and licensed by the relevant financial service authorities to do so.”

Veritas also pointed out that it does not have any proprietary trading positions and referred to its clean track record. Monga, however, added that “If there are any factual errors we will correct those.”
http://www.businessstandard.com/india/news/indiabulls-accuses-veritashelping-short-sellers/482846/


Sunday, August 12, 2012

MISTAKES ...KNOWINGLY..!!!


Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 23:26

Govt slaps notice to BHEl asking to pay Rs 25 Cr as penalty

Karnataka government has slapped a notice on BHEL asking to pay Rs 250 crore as penalty for supplying faulty power generating equipments at the Raichur Thermal Power Station, Minister for Energy, Shobha Karandlaje said today.


Karnataka government has slapped a notice on BHEL asking to pay Rs 250 crore as penalty for supplying faulty power generating equipments at the Raichur Thermal Power Station, Minister for Energy, Shobha Karandlaje said today.

The eighth unit of the RTPS, the contract of which was awarded to BHEL, developed technical snag since about a year ago and the company has not been able to rectify it, she told reporters here. The government had also decided to recover the losses caused to the state following failure to generate power by BHEL in the last one year, she said.http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/govt-slaps-notice-to-bhel-asking-to-pay-rs-25cr-as-penalty_743990.html

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Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:22

CNN, Time magazine suspend Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism

Noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse.

Noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse.

Zakaria, was suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted that he had plagiarised portions of an article he wrote on gun control for Time, from the New Yorker magazine.

He issued an apology saying he had made a "terrible mistake" and his lifting a paragraph from the article by Harvard University professor of American history Jill Lepore was an "ethical lapse".

Zakaria, 48, a Yale and Harvard graduate, had written the column on gun control that appeared in the August 20 issue of Time magazine.

Cognizant D'Souza story


Newsmaker: Francisco D'Souza
The 'Kid' reinvents Cognizant - and himself
T E Narasimhan /  August 10, 2012, 0:39 IST

A few days ago, US-based Cognizant overtook Infosys to become the second-largest information technology (IT) company in India, an important milestone that saw the baton being passed from an iconic pioneer in the Indian technology space to a future contender.
The man steering Cognizant today is boyish-looking, 44-year-old Francisco D’Souza, who could easily pass for an energetic student at a management school, than for the CEO of a top-flight technology company. Much of Cognizant’s success is thanks to D’Souza, who, in the past five years as the CEO, has propelled the company’s revenues from $1.4 billion, when he took over, to almost $7 billion today, at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 35 per cent.
D’Souza attributes much of his and Cognizant’s success to his peripatetic childhood. His father, Placido D'Souza, an Indian Foreign Service diplomat, had to move to a new country every few years, and he made sure his son attended a local school wherever they went: Whether it was Panama, Zaire, Trinidad, New Delhi, New York, Hong Kong or Pittsburgh. This resulted in the need to learn new languages, make new friends, explore different cuisines, and soak up diverse cultures.

"If there is one thing in my personal life that has made a decisive impact on business in Cognizant, it is the multi-cultural experience that I have gained and cherished,” says D’Souza. “From the beginning, we have consciously built the organisation with this 'multi-cultural' flavour, because to serve the global marketplace, you need to be global. What I learnt growing up in a microcosm, is very much alive in the DNA of Cognizant," says Francisco.
Born in Nairobi, D’Souza grew up in three continents. He attained a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of East Asia, and a master of business administration degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, US, where he reportedly was the youngest in the class. This won him the moniker, ‘the kid’.
When D’Souza took over in 2007, Cognizant was a late entrant in the IT services sector, dominated by giants like Wipro and Infosys. Playing catch-up was not easy. But D'Souza had a clear game plan— focus on a few areas and expand into adjacent ones, be it new geographies, solutions, or industries.
Within Cognizant, D'Souza had many roles to play — from the Director of the US operations, to the vice-president (North American operations), to COO, and now, CEO. During these stints, D'Souza set up and incubated the North American operations, European operations, and newer industry practices and solutions.
Yet, D'Souza isn’t satisfied. He recently announced that his ace team of Gordon Coburn, R Chandrasekaran and Rajeev Mehta would take over the ownership for over 95 per cent of the company's business, allowing him to focus on new business models, geographies, and technology architectures, somewhat akin to the decision Bill Gates took many years ago, when he handed over the reins of Microsoft to Steve Ballmer.
According to analysts, these new ideas, models and technologies may not have opportunities today. However, in the next three-five years, this strategy would germinate, especially in areas like social media, cloud and mobile analytics. D’Souza refers to these as emerging business accelerators (EBAs), and expects those to be the material drivers of Cognizant's future growth. The EBA segment comprises 18 new businesses, with D’Souza heading four. In effect, D’Souza has created a venture capital organisation within his IT enterprise and appointed ‘mini’ CEOs from Cognizant’s work force to head these verticals.
At this rate, D’Souza, at the age of 44, has a good chance of eclipsing the luminaries of an older generation of IT entrepreneurs, who set the bedrock for Cognizant’s success.
http://www.businessstandard.com/taketwo/news/newsmaker-francisco-dsouza/482863/