Let’s start having a look: An experienced long-term investor once told me that when he looked at his face after a share market fall he found despair and fear, while the same face showed enthusiasm and happiness with a share market appreciation. This made him realize that greed and fear were the 2 magnetic...
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Fear and Greed
Stocks Investment Post Retirement
Inflation and Retirement Most Retirees feel great getting a bulk sum as provident fund and gratuity, and wish they knew a magician, who could spin their money 2 to 3 times in just 5 years, in addition to ensuring a regular return for their day to day expenses. It is true we all want...
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Role of Spouse in Personal Finance
In most of the Indian families, the personal finance is something which is not managed by the couples together. It is only one person who manages the personal finance and money management of the whole family. In most of the cases the male partners and in a very few cases the female partners mange...
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Retire Sooner and Richer
The mindset of today’s young professionals is changing radically. They would like to have a semi-retired life in their late forties or early fifties by taking up a hobby instead of a regular job. Somewhere within all of us, there is a dream to reach a point in life where we have enough wealth...
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All About Company Deposits
Company Deposits are nothing but fixed deposits in companies that earn a fixed rate of return over a period of time. Company deposits are really down-to-earth products. The influential advantage of the company deposits is its plain simplicity. Company deposit is understood even by the most novices among the investors community. Have you ever...
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Resident to NRI
Are you planning to go abroad and become am NRI? Today you are a Resident Indian. Tomorrow you may become an NRI if your employer provides an opportunity. When an opportunity like this knocks at our door, are we ready to face the change? Are we prepared? Creating a Checklist or ‘to-do list’ helps...
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HSBC faces trouble over PPI complaints as deadline looms
Bank fails to tell all victims mis-sold payment protection insurance how much compensation they will receive HSBC said the regulator would be ‘supportive of our approach’ in dealing with PPI complaints. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters HSBC could find itself in trouble with the Financial Services Authority after it emerged the bank will fail to meet...
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Android in Space
On the last manned space shuttle, Atlantis, NASA sent two Nexus S phones along for the ride as part of the STS-135 mission. The goal is to use Nexus S on the International Space Station to explore how robots can help humans experiment and live in space more efficiently. NASA is using Nexus S...
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Microsoft sued for tracking mobile users’ location without permission
Lawsuit claims that tech giant collects data about customers’ whereabouts even they have opted out of location tracking Microsoft faces a lawsuit for allegedly tracking the location of users of its Windows Phone 7 software even after they had opted out Microsoft tracks the location of its mobile users even after customers turned the software...
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Samsung launches Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 7.7
Midsized Galaxy Note is pitched as replacement for pen and paper, while new Galaxy Tab offers Super AMOLED Plus screen The Samsung Galaxy Note features the pressure-sensitive ‘S-Pen’ and is smaller than HTC’s Flyer Samsung has unveiled two new tablets, one of which, the midsized Galaxy Note, is being pitched as a replacement for...
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Apple staffer loses test iPhone in bar – again
Police called in for search as ‘priceless’ prototype iPhone 5 is left in Mexican restaurant in San Francisco, according to report An Apple employee left a prototype iPhone 5 in a Mexican restaurant on San Francisco, according to a report. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Have you heard this one before? An Apple employee walks into...
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Alleged Gadhafi message urges Libyans to fight on
In a message of utter anger and defiance that aired Thursday, a man purported to be Libya’s fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi urged Libyans to continue the fight and not surrender. “We are not cowards,” he said in an audio message broadcast on Syrian-based Rai TV a day after two of Gadhafi’s sons gave mixed...
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The Guardian and Observer Kindle edition is now available
Click here to download a 14-day free trial from amazon.co.uk The Kindle edition of the Guardian. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian he Guardian and Observer Kindle edition is now available for download seven days a week in the UK, US and more than 100 other countries. It carries the content from that day’s newspaper,...
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