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America continues it’s Absurdity…AIG declares an Employee Bonus of US $ 165 Million !

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Check this out on http://www.slate.com/id/2213936/ Yet being Bailed Out  AIG, has got  US President Obama boiling ,yet helpless…..It has received Billions in Bailouts to keep afloat…and yet has just declared Employee Bonus of US $ 165 Million…says it is a contractual obligation ! And guess what !…they think they need to give it ,otherwise this will disgruntle employees […]

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United Breweries at Rs 86…Indiabulls recommends to sell…Reliance Capital Mutual Fund buys into it !

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It’s not that Reliance Capital Mutual Fund always does exactly the opposite of what Indiabulls recommends ! United Breweries (UB) was recommended to sell at Rs 90 by Indiabulls with a target price of Rs 70,citing high Leverage and margin pressures Reliance Capital Mutual Fund and another Fund,Indea Absolute Return Fund ,actually went ahead and purchased

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Reliance announces RPL Amalgamation into RIL Ratio at 16:1…What should RPL and RIL Shareholders do?

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On Friday,after Markets closing,RPL and RIL announced that their Boards would meet this morning to consider and recommend the Amalgamation of RPL into RIL I had blogged that the ratio could be 20:1 and the Amalgamation would add incremental EPS to RIL and help RIL Share Price to be maintained or enhanced The Amalgamation Ratio

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Breaking News ! ….RIL and RPL Boards to Meet on March 2,2009 to consider and recommend that RPL amalgamates into RIL!

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Ambanis of Reliance have adopted this modus operandi without fail the past 25 years…They create new companies for similar business…and when they commence production,they amalgamate them into the Parent, RIL…in a sense give birth to Children and bring them back into the Parent fold So I was not surprised at all when the Breaking News  hit that

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Ernst & Young did Maytas Properties Valuation of Rs 6523 crs in just one Day !?

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Just read a very interesting update on Maytas Properties in todays’ edition of Financial Express Maytas Properties is facing the prospects of the Government taking it over the Board,just as they did for Satyam The matter was being heard by the Company Law Board (CLB) and the company’s counsel suggested that the Government could appoint an observer

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Just viewed Bogle v/s Seigel…Index Investing v/s Stocks

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At 1 am Mumbai Time,just a half hour ago,I got to see on CNBC TV 18,two of my favourites,John Bogle,founder of Vangaurd Group of Mutual Funds and a staunch advocate of Index Investing over specific Stock Selection and Jeremy Seigel.Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a strong advocate of Stocks Both made some very interesting

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