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Live from the Oscars to a near Octogenarian delivering Union Budget Ointment

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A new week commences as February ends…Got up early to watch Live on ‘Star Movies’ the 83rd Oscars Awards Presentation Ceremony….new and younger hosts in an attempt to make the Oscars youthful and livelier and more ‘yo’ and ‘wassup’……James Franco and Anne Hathaway…Great Actors…not so Great Oscar Hosts…needed host of earlier years Billy Crystal and […]

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Enjoyed the Week & now Enjoying the Weekend…..Son’s Band ‘Pitch Black’ coming Runners Up..Daughter’s team winning at a Football Carnival ….& Sachin blazing for India at the World Cup Cricket

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Coming on top of Son’s Band ‘Pitch Black’ coming a close runner up at a Rock band Competition this week now this weekend too has been great fun so far…he plays rhythm guitar and also writes the lyrics…From 20 bands,five were short listed for the Finals….In the Finals,’Pitch Black’  played two originals by him… ‘Nowhere to Hide’ and ‘Stars’

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Atlas Copco announces delisting and reverse book building process schedule…how to play this

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Atlas Copco had announced intentions of delisting the Shares from BSE and PSE in October 2010…the formalities are now complete and the mode and schedule has been announced http://www.bseindia.com/stockinfo/anndet.aspx?newsid=20eaa6da-d155-4a0e-b16b-ae6648f7516e¶m1=1 Indicative Offer Price is Rs 2250…Floor Price is Rs 1426 in the Reverse Book-building Process…Bid opens on March 7,2011 and clses on March 11,2011….Discovered Price,if any,will

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Indian Equities sliding on the Binary Scale…Interest Rates at 10% and Crude Oil at US $ 100 +

6 Comments / Broker Index Forecasts, INVESTOR MISTAKES, Reflections, Sensex, When the Heart Explodes through the helpless Mind / By

Binaries 0 & 1 are byteing into Indian Equities…Binary Trouble…Rising Interest Rate & Oil Prices….Risk Free Interest Rate is now 1 & 0 =>10 % …..and Crude Oil is now 1 & 0 & 0 => US $ 100 + per barrel as tension in the Middle East escalates across several countries Have a Look

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Bahrain was my home for three lovely years in the mid 1980s….sad to see the current turmoil

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I’ve spend three lovely cosmopolitan years in the small Middle East Islamic State of Bahrain in the mid 1980s when I was single and burning the midnight oil with one of the Big Four Auditing and Consultancy Firms in the World……have visited a few times since returning too ….. lovely memories and lovely friends ….. am sad to

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Anil Ambani’s Reliance Companies battling more than just negative Investor Sentiments….Outlook Business quotes me in a Cover Story on this

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Outlook Business Feb 5-19 2011 carries a cover story on Anil Ambani battling serious issues that are threatening his Business Empire currently…..What will come to the rescue of a grim and worried Anil Ambani is that the scale of operations and stakes are high…Reliance Power for example…..The Outlook Business Article quotes me as such….check it out

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