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FCPA Compliance – Challenges for U.S. Companies doing business in India
The past few years have seen a spate of FCPA enforcement actions against US Corporations with imposition of unprecedented fines and penalties. In 2008, Siemens paid the highest penalty to date – $800 million[i]. U.S. enforcement agencies have also imposed significant...
Sensex Target for 2020: Are 40,000 – 60,000 levels achievable?
A lot of research goes into predicting future prices and Sensex targets. Analysis of past data for such predictions suggests that analysts are far more accurate over a longer term. Shorter your time frames, higher are the chances of error. Yet, analysts and market...
Can you buy / sell stocks after market hours?
Constant news flow and major corporate announcements after market hours make many wonder if they should buy/sell their stocks as soon as the market opens? For example – when a company reports really bad quarterly results or an extremely bad news surfaces post trading...
Futures and Options Lot Size – Margin Amount and Number of Shares
In the stock markets, participants can trade in 2 segments: (i) Cash segment; and (ii) Futures and Options (Derivative) segment. Participants in the cash market can buy/sell any number of shares of a company (i.e. they can buy anything...
How Stock Picking Became My Full Time Business
Today when I look around, I see thousands of opportunities in India. Anyone born in this era should realize how fortunate he is to be born at a time when coffee costs Rs. 150 and it takes an average of 15 minute to be served a takeaway. To not capitalize on the...
Gaming Industry in India
The factors considered below present an overview of the gaming industry in India. The analyses below are based on the circumstances of Delta Corp Limited which runs the largest casino operations in India. WHAT’S DRIVING THE STOCK Rising internal consumption and...
Price to Book Value Ratio (P/B ratio)
Investors spend time in identifying companies with strong profits and growth prospects. Before investing in the stock market, the uncertainties, the ups and downs, questions like what is the fair value of the share, what price should I pay for a company’s shares etc....
Choosing Fundamentally Strong Stocks for Trading
I often get emails asking for what are the good shares for trading in the Indian stock markets? One particular inquirer asked me to name some – fundamentally strong stocks for trading. I think this is worth writing about. At first, to come up with any coherent...
Short term financial position – analysis of working capital
In order to meet immediate obligations as they arise in the regular course of business, companies often rely on short term finance (i.e. loans and credit facilities that must be repaid in less than 1 year). The short term liabilities for a business consist of items...
10 Original Investing Quotes
1. When in doubt go long. If ever confused about holding on or selling a share after its run up substantially, tell yourself this and hold on to it. Just make sure to drop it in case there is a big fraud or obvious bad news against the company. 2. I buy some...
FCPA Compliance – Challenges for U.S. Companies doing business in India
The past few years have seen a spate of FCPA enforcement actions against US Corporations with imposition of unprecedented fines and penalties. In 2008, Siemens paid the highest penalty to date – $800 million[i]. U.S. enforcement agencies have also imposed significant...
Sensex Target for 2020: Are 40,000 – 60,000 levels achievable?
A lot of research goes into predicting future prices and Sensex targets. Analysis of past data for such predictions suggests that analysts are far more accurate over a longer term. Shorter your time frames, higher are the chances of error. Yet, analysts and market...
Can you buy / sell stocks after market hours?
Constant news flow and major corporate announcements after market hours make many wonder if they should buy/sell their stocks as soon as the market opens? For example – when a company reports really bad quarterly results or an extremely bad news surfaces post trading...
Futures and Options Lot Size – Margin Amount and Number of Shares
In the stock markets, participants can trade in 2 segments: (i) Cash segment; and (ii) Futures and Options (Derivative) segment. Participants in the cash market can buy/sell any number of shares of a company (i.e. they can buy anything...
How Stock Picking Became My Full Time Business
Today when I look around, I see thousands of opportunities in India. Anyone born in this era should realize how fortunate he is to be born at a time when coffee costs Rs. 150 and it takes an average of 15 minute to be served a takeaway. To not capitalize on the...
Gaming Industry in India
The factors considered below present an overview of the gaming industry in India. The analyses below are based on the circumstances of Delta Corp Limited which runs the largest casino operations in India. WHAT’S DRIVING THE STOCK Rising internal consumption and...
Price to Book Value Ratio (P/B ratio)
Investors spend time in identifying companies with strong profits and growth prospects. Before investing in the stock market, the uncertainties, the ups and downs, questions like what is the fair value of the share, what price should I pay for a company’s shares etc....
Choosing Fundamentally Strong Stocks for Trading
I often get emails asking for what are the good shares for trading in the Indian stock markets? One particular inquirer asked me to name some – fundamentally strong stocks for trading. I think this is worth writing about. At first, to come up with any coherent...
Short term financial position – analysis of working capital
In order to meet immediate obligations as they arise in the regular course of business, companies often rely on short term finance (i.e. loans and credit facilities that must be repaid in less than 1 year). The short term liabilities for a business consist of items...
10 Original Investing Quotes
1. When in doubt go long. If ever confused about holding on or selling a share after its run up substantially, tell yourself this and hold on to it. Just make sure to drop it in case there is a big fraud or obvious bad news against the company. 2. I buy some...
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