We have always been told that stocks always outperform fixed deposits in the long run. But is this always true? Lets do some analysis. Below is the graph showing annual returns for Sensex and Fixed Deposits (for 1-3 years tenure) from year 1991 to 2011. As you can see in 21 years period Sensex has [...]
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A few days back Times of India had published the below info-graphic showing how asset class among Equities, Real Estate, Gold and fixed deposits have performed in last one, three, five and ten years. For last one year Gold was the best performer with whooping 39.3% returns while in last three years it was equities [...]
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Below is the traing holidays for NSE (National Stock Exchange) & BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) in 2012: Date Day Description 26-Jan-12 Thursday Republic Day 20-Feb-12 Monday Mahashivratri 08-Mar-12 Thursday Holi 05-Apr-12 Thursday Mahavir Jayanti 06-Apr-12 Friday Good Friday 01-May-12 Tuesday May Day 15-Aug-12 Wednesday Independence Day 20-Aug-12 Monday Ramzan Id 19-Sep-12 Wednesday Ganesh Chaturthi 02-Oct-12 [...]
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Go Digital! is the buzzword today and most of companies are aggressively going online. Today you can buy books to insurance, everything on net. Thankfully Indian regulators are not behind. Weather you are investor or consumer, you can register your grievances and complaints online and rest would be taken care by regulators. Here’s a brief on [...]
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India Shining!!! And if you want to shine with it you need to invest in Indian Stock Market. And the very first thing you need is Demat Account. But given that online trading has become very competitive, brokers are offering several options—brokerages that decline as volumes soar, waiver of account opening charges, access to research [...]
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The market is expected to see range-bound trades with low volumes in the 90-minute special trading session to be held on Saturday (February 06, 2010). This would be one of the rare occasions when stock brokers will keep their shops open, albeit for a very short session, on a Saturday which otherwise is a holiday [...]
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