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Some Saturday Morning Shots…..of Strikes and Statues…..Austerity Measures and IPOs

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Amusing or not so…you decide…….some Saturday morning shots…. Jet Airways Pilots Strike enters the fifth day…and I see  a Business Standard ad (Page 16) of Jet2Kerala with a tag line ‘Your dream holiday can now touch down’…Problem is you yet cannot take off !…Jet Airways has teamed up with Kerala Tourism to help you land the best […]

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When Strong Investment Advice from a Leader goes Crazily wrong,it’s not the Leader who suffers !

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Human memory is very Short…..In November 2008, one of India’s leading Investment and Merchant Banking and Broking Outfit strongly advised it’s clients to sell off their whole Equity Portfolio…I had blogged it too as it was extreme advice from a Leader..rare in itself https://www.gauravblog.com/?p=360 A Rare Technical Report from a leading Securities Entity has studied the Sensex trends for

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Just had a Sandwich wrapped in a Page of the TCS Annual Report 2008/9 !…got any Reports, then send them to me and I’ll Pay you !

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There’s a lament that not many of us actually care to read the Annual Report of the Company whose shares we own, or intend to buy ! Amusingly, as if to strengthen this lament, I just discovered that the Sandwich I had ordered came wrapped in a page of the TCS Annual Report of 2008/9

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Borrowing against Brands !…Interesting,but Risky area opening out !

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For Years ,Brand Valuation has been part of my sessions on Valuation of Equity at BSE and Other Forums….so it was with great Interest that I read the Economic Times Front Page atricle today on ‘Cos flash brands to raise cash’ Strapped for cash,Kingfisher Airlines has managed to Borrow from State Bank of India against

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Ernest Hemingway was a ‘Dilettante’ KGB Spy !…I could have gone down that route too !

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‘Dilettante’…an Interesting Noun…Oxford Dictionary meaning is ‘ a person who dabbles in a subject for enjoyment’ and is pronounced ‘di-li-tan-tay’ A New Book,‘Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America’  by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr reveals that famous author,Ernest Hemingway was a ‘dilettante spy’ for awhile.This revelation is based on the notes of Alexander Vassiliev,a

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