Monday, April 5, 2010

NGOs

1. Pratham, India's largest NGO
2. Save a child

New enterpreneurs

1. After slogging over his bicycle-on-share concept for the last one year Ramesh, an IIM-Bangalore graduate, has finally introduced FreMo (freedom to move; http://www.fremo.in/) India's [ Images ] first state-of-the-art bicycle sharing programme.He called it quits as the CEO of a non-banking finance company to pursue his eco-friendly passion.


2. Yashi Desai, Dipti Doshi and Frenny Shah run Idea Hub, an advertising agency that counts the likes of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals [ Get Quote ] amongst its clients.

3. Prashalee Gaikwad could have well been just another marketing and branding executive in a private corporation. But a strange twist of fate made her consider an alternative, if somewhat uncertain career. The 27-year-old media and management graduate is now following her heart and painting canvases in myriad colours.

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Friday, April 2, 2010

USD - Crude - Gold Relationship

Dollar is international currency and when the dollar is weak (eg. USD falls from iUSD=45INR to 1USD=44INR) countries would be able to purchase more quantity of oil with lesser currency...however this is only when OPEC keep the prices stable

Crude oil is mainly traded in US dollars, and when the US dollar weakens the crude oil market participants (speculators, producers, refineries, etc.) push the price of crude higher on the expectations that oil producers are entitled to at least the same prices as before in their own currencies, after exchanging US dollars into their currency. In economics such relationships are explained by Purchasing Power Parity theory.

If the US dollar goes down, crude and oil will go up. Dollar rises, oil and gold usually go down. There are also other factors, inflation, recession and crude inventory, but those are the general rules.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

English movies watched

1. Wanted
2. Spiderman I/II/III
3. Lord of the rings I/II/III
4. Superman Returns
5. Batman begins
6. Batman - the Dark knight
7. Persuit of happiness
8. The best game ever played
9. Harry potter - Soccerrers stone
10. Harry potter - Prisoner of Azkaban
11. Harry potter - Half blood prince
12. Harry potter - Goblet of fire
13. Harry potter - Tom riddle
14. Avatar
15. Star Trek (2009)
16. Star Wars I/II/III (2000)
17. Matrix I/II/III
18. Mummy
19. Mummy Returns
20. Mummy China
21. Fantastic four I
22. Fantastic four - silver glider
23. X-men - I/II/III/IV
24. Underworld
25. Underworld Evolution
26. MIB I/II
27. Pink panther I/II (2000)
28. District 9
29. Tomb raider - Lara croft
30. Indiana Jones - Kingdom of crystal skull
31. Indiana Jones - Last crusade
32. Indiana Jones -
33. Indiana Jones -
34. Jurasic Park I/II/III
35. Godzilla
36. Rush Hour I/II/III
37. Bad boys I/II
38. Blade I/II/III
39. Percy Jackson - Theif of lightening bolt
40. Rambo I/II/III/IV
41. Terminator I/II/III
42. The last action hero
43. James Bond I/II/III/IV (Peirce Brosnan)
44. James Bond I/II (Daniel Craig)
45. Ultraviolet
46. Appocolypso
47. The Patriot
48. Final Destination I/II/III
49. Die Hard I/II/III/IV
50. The fugitive
51. The shawshank redemption
52. XXX I/II/III
53. Radio Rock
54. Anger management
55. Shadow in the Sun
56. Da vinci code
57. Angels and Demons
58. Constantine
59. National treasure I/II
60. Deja vu
61. American gangster
62. Titanic
63. 2012
64. 10000 BC
65. 300
66. Troy
67. Gladiator
68. A beautiful mind
69. Tremors
70. The bone collector
71. Breed
72. Click
73. MI I/II/III
74. The firm
75. The mexican
76. The Italian job
77. Oceans 11/12/13
78. The pacifier
79. Legally blonde
80. Liar Liar

Favourite English movies watched

1. Persuit of Happiness
2. Shadow in the Sun
3. The best game ever played
4. Seven pounds
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Sunday, July 5, 2009

SOME FINANCE QUESTIONS

How do you calculate cost of equity?
What are the applications of P/E ratio?
What is overcapitalization?
What is a value stock, growth stock and defensive stock?
What is FCCB ?Why does a company go for FCCB s?Why are they called convertible bonds?
How do we price convertible debentures?
What happens to the issued capital of a company when it buybacks its shares?
What is green shoe option?
What is underwriting?
What is bookbuilding process?
What is the duration of a bond?What is yield curve?
What is reinvestment risk and interest rate risk?
What is the condition when you can not apply IRR method for evaluating a project?
Questions on repo, reverse repo , bank rate ?
Define PLR?
What are the impacts of increase or decrease in repo rates on the economy?
What is a rights issue ? what is its effect on the market capitalization of the company ?
What is dupont analysis and when is it used?

What are treasury stocks?
What is WACC and WMCC?
What are the different methods available for valuing equity?
What are cash flows and how do you calculate future cash flows of a company?