Posted on May 27, 2008 by kfactor
The sub-prime crisis in US has been the buzz word in media from past few months. Lot of my friends started asking what this is all about and here is the simplified version of the entire episode.
First thing you have to do is, forget about the terminology used in many news articles which will only [...]
Filed under: Finance | Tagged: Asset Backed Securities, Bear Stearns, CDOs, defaulting, ICICI, J P Morgan Chase, mortgage, sub-prime crisis, UBS, US crisis | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 21, 2008 by kfactor
Kishore Biyani, MD, Future Group has locked horns with Anil Ambani, Chairman Reliance Adag over an attempt of the later to register Reliance Big Bazar with India’s trademark authority. Biyani considers this move by Anil as an attempt to misappropriate India’s best known retail name “Big Bazaar”. It is unusual to fight over such major [...]
Filed under: Business | Tagged: Big Bazaar, Future Group, Reliance Adag, Retail | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 20, 2008 by kfactor
Recently, an agreement was signed between the BHEL and Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation to set up a 125 MW power plant at Vijayawada using IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) technology.
IGCC is considered as the cleanest among the emerging power technologies, it first converts solid coal into a combustible gas, which is then rid of [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2008 by kfactor
Dance, it is natural, it is learnt and a beautiful paradox that only adds to the beauty of the being we call the human.
This weekend happened to be one of my memorable one’s in bangalore. I happened to watch this dance show on saturday at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore.It was done in a mind [...]
Filed under: Dance | Tagged: Dance, energetic, geometry, Indian Contemporary dance, passion for dance, proffesionalism, tarantismo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 19, 2008 by kfactor
Ever wonder what Sensex means and how it is calculated?
Sensex is short form for Sensitive Index. It is an indicator of the stocks in the Bombay Stock Exchange. Sensex is calculated taking stock prices of 30 different BSE listed companies.It is calculated using the “free-float market capitalization” method. This is a world wide accepted method [...]
Filed under: Finance | Tagged: BSE 30, Finance, free-float mkt cap, mkt cap, Sensex, sensex calculation, stock basics, stocks | 4 Comments »