Sensex is predicted to reach 24 K by March '09

This philosophy is embraced by even the modern day prophets of randomness, Burton Malkiel and Naseem Nicholas Taleb. Mr Malkiel popularised the concept of randomness in the movement of Stock prices in the ’70s. Mr Taleb, now famous for his ‘Black Swan’ theory, concluded that risk models used by brokerages are all useless as they cannot predict the

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Eight mistakes to avoid while investing

Overconfidence - Don't be unrealistically optimistic A bull market makes retail investors believe that they are geniuses - after all, anything they put money into goes up. This overconfidence in their own abilities leads to a complete disregard of the risks involved. Every new generation that invests in the market ignores past experience.

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How to pick dividend stocks in a troubled market

Even if stocks go nowhere this year—a distinct possibility as US recession looms—investors can get returns by hunting for companies that pay healthy dividends. You receive the company’s quarterly payouts even if its stock, and the entire market, heads south.

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Stocks bought by mutual funds during market crash.

Stocks bought by mutual funds during market crash.What are mutual funds buying during Stock market crash?Mutual funds have bought

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Advance taxes point to healthy quarterly results

If the advance tax numbers for the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year are anything to go by, India Inc. should report strong set of financial results for the January-March period. The companies will start declaring

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Investors may soon get to access SEs' trading system

Investors in Indian markets can soon have direct access to the exchange’s trading system, albeit through the broker’s infrastructure, a practice very popular in developed markets. Capital market regulator SEBI issued a circular saying only institutional investors would be allowed to access this facility in the first stage - called

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D-Street may witness volatility on Q4 results, global cues

Investors on Dalal Street are likely to continue witnessing volatility this week, driven by quarterly earnings by corporates and global cues, as analysts believe impact of soaring inflation may have been discounted. The benchmark index Sensex closed at 15,343.12 on Friday with a loss of 489.43 points, as concerns of rising inflation and a new

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