Global Markets

India to Raise Natural Gas Prices

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 11, 2009

The energy situation in India saw some significant announcements recently. The country is expecting to raise its natural gas price by 44 percent.

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DSP Blackrock World Energy Fund

by Shabbir Bhimani on July 28, 2009

In this Article I would analyze how good is DSP BlackRock World Energy Fund in NFO stage and whether DSP BlackRock World Energy Fund offers anything unique for the investors or its just yet another fund.

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Important week for Indian Markets

by Shabbir Bhimani on July 27, 2009

“I didn’t know what was going to happen the last two years. Why should I know what’s going to happen the next two years?” – Warren Buffet. But some predictions of market move for current week.

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Bear Market Rally Vs Bull Market

by Shabbir Bhimani on May 22, 2009

Whenever bear market rally is there its always been a low volume and there is definitely a reason behind it. The people feel tired looking at the market which never goes up and then tend to move out of the market and does not look at the portfolios.

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Buffett at Annual General Meeting

by Shabbir Bhimani on May 3, 2009

Mr Buffet was speaking to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway company at their annual general meeting being held in Omaha, Nebraska. The value of Berkshire Hathaway’s investments fell by quite a bit and Mr Buffett’s personal wealth shrank by $25bn (£17bn) and he is now not at the top of the richest person list.

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Indian Depository Receipts ( IDR’s )

by Shabbir Bhimani on April 24, 2009

Companies outside India can raise capital from the Indian capital market with the Government notifying norms for issue of Indian Depository Receipts ( IDRs ). This has been stipulated in the Companies (Issue of Indian Depository Receipts) Rules, 2004 but there is not even a single company till date after 5 years listed as IDR.

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Is this the right time to invest in Indian Equity

by Shabbir Bhimani on April 21, 2009

We have seen a 40% rise in equity for over the past 5 weeks in Indian equity due to the strong Global Cues but now when the Global Equities Indices going down we at Indian Equity market is resilient to go down and so what could be the potential reasons.

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Return OF Money Or Return ON Money

by Shabbir Bhimani on March 22, 2009

Now The Investor Will Realise that the Return OF Money Is More Important Than the Return ON Money

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Islamic Banking, Solution to current problem

by Shabbir Bhimani on March 15, 2009

For the successful Islamic banking operations, it will be on Government to implement Islamic banking. If not they should atleast provide bank status to Islamic finance institutes as they are termed right now do they can issue cheque and other such facility like banks.

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Protectionism !! problem or solution to global turmoil

by Shabbir Bhimani on March 7, 2009

Now US was ( I am saying was and not is ) considered as free trade country but suddenly all the policies goes into the pocket when the situation turns bad and now they have a higher Tax for the companies doing outsourcing.

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Foreign currency transaction

by Shabbir Bhimani on January 1, 2009

If the transaction is carried forward to the next financial year then we will express these monetary items as outstanding items on date balance sheet date with foreign exchange rate for the given date for example foreign exchange rate declared by RBI on 31st march. These processes will continue till the transaction is settled down.

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Bailout rejected

by Shabbir Bhimani on October 1, 2008

There were reports, that due to this rejection, stock markets all over the world saw a dip of 1.2 trillion dollars in just a matter of 6 hours!!!!! Stockmarkets will go sideways for the next 20 years in real terms like they did between 1935 and 1955.

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Global markets and Indian Impact

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 16, 2008

Global markets went for a toss after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Bank of America decided to buy Merrill Lynch for $44 billion. Lehman Brother’s announced that it is filing for bankruptcy came after all potential buyers walked away.

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The market takes a roller coaster ride

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 6, 2008

In the world of stocks, market fall on negative developments, they all recover after a period and begin to climb on positive developments. Thus, they follow a cyclical pattern. Other markets too have witnessed such cycles.

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Understanding Gold Investments

by Shabbir Bhimani on August 25, 2008

Then, in just last few days, the exact reverse occurred. Oil fell to nearly $115 per barrel from a high of $147. Gold dulled almost immediately. Gold prices bounced back on the bullion market here on fresh demand from stockists, on the back of higher advices from the London metal exchange.

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