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Futures Trading in Commodity is a natural outgrowth of the problems of maintaining and managing supply of Agricultural Products and other commodities. Worldwide there are many exchanges operating in commodity futures. It has a very long history in today’s world, the first exchange “The Chicago Board of Trade” (CBOT) was established in 1848 for trading in commodity futures. In 1880 and 1890 the New York Coffee, Cotton and Product Exchanges became operative.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have been in existence in India for quite some time now. But so far ETFs have not enjoyed the kind of popularity that the conventional Mutual Funds enjoy. One reason could be the lack of understanding of the concept of ETF amongst the general investor. Second, and probably the more important reason, is that ETFs by nature track a certain index (e.g. Nifty or the Bankex).
In simple terms, Arbitrage is a system, or concept, that has been around for hundred of years, but there is still no any perfect definition of what it is. Your stock broker may give you one definition, while a commodities broker may tell you it’s something else. Hence, most investors have no clue what it’s about.
Bernie Madoff’s game got over some time in March 2009. His investment advisory business, Madoff admitted, was a gigantic Ponzi scheme. He had defrauded thousands of high net-worth investors of billions of dollars. This was the mother of all Ponzi schemes and Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum for felony. The damage when the dust settled was calculated at $65 billion.
Almost everybody of us, feel very excited when the stock market indices go up and make the front page news. Needless to say, almost everybody of us, feel very disheartened when the stock market indices dip down. It can be said, that without stock markets and its news, our day does not start and end.
The rise in the stock markets post March 2009 is probably the sharpest we have seen in over a decade or so. The BSE-Sensex has risen by around 81% during the year. However, there were a few stocks that missed out on this rally. In this article, we have highlighted the top five stocks that underperformed the benchmark index.
After the collapse of global stock markets and economic turmoil in 2008, 2009 came with hope. While we did not see the stock market highs of 2007, we managed to gain back most of the lost ground of 2008. In this article, we discuss the top 5 Sensex performers taken from different sectors. In other words, the stocks have been chosen in such a way that if a stock from a sector has come on the list, we have not taken another stock from the same sector and instead, chosen to focus on different sectors.
…if it is intended to be ‘buy and forget’! The two bear markets that we have seen over the past ten years – first at its start in 2000 and then near its end in 2008 – have demonstrated exactly how dangerous buy and forget can be. In the first bear market, which went on from February 2000 through September 2001, the BSE-Sensex fell 56%. In the second bear market, that began in January 2008 and seems to have ended in March 2009, the index lost almost 61%.
ULIP’s are basically long term investment. But despite being Long Term in nature they are Return Maximizing tool. The return is maximized through the well known option provided itself in the ULIP product SWITCHES. Each Ulip comes with a Switch Option giving opportunity to the policy holder to manage his funds and maximize the Returns over the Long term.
Most likely, Monday, January 4th 2010 is when you would have recovered from the new year celebrations and the weekend that follows. It will also be the day when Indian stock markets first open at 9 am. The leading association of brokers, Association of National Exchanges Members of India (ANMI), has made a last ditch attempt to stick to the current timings. But the stock exchanges have reiterated that markets would open 55 minutes earlier. Given the keen competition, they are vying to garner as much volumes for themselves as possible.
