Category: Finance

Anything related to Finance.

Special ossasion spending

Dassera and Diwali come once a year and so do birthdays and anniversaries . During dassera and diwali, there is a tradition to buy gold. Do you follow the same tradition here? I know of some friends, who do. Or are you like me 🙂 who doesn’t follow these? With …

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Do we need to worry ?

Just read this article – http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/56994/Top-Economist-Americans-Should-Worry-About-Bank-Deposits-if-Congress-Doesn’t-Act?tickers=LEH,MER,BAC,AIG,WM,%5EDJI,%5EGSPC . I keep hearing that the money in banks is insured upto 100,000$. But as the article mentions, how can the FDIC insure $1 trillion in assets when it has only about $50 billion ?

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Decision Moose

DecisionMoose.com is a finance site. In its own words “a proprietary asset allocation and market timing model provided to internet users for free by its creator, William Dirlam”. The latest Moo Signal states : “LATEST SIGNAL (08/22/2008): Hold cash through 08/31/2008. Index Moose switched to Cash (3 month T-Bills or …

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High Returns Bank Accounts

Which ones are some of the high yield on savings account banks? Wachovia bank seems be one of them with APY of 5.00% in first year. (and a bonus of upto 300$ for first year). This article on Wachovia bank caught my attention and hence this post. StarOne used to …

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Macro trends and investment

After witnessing a few macro trends in the last couple of years including….. 1) The Rise of India(and related rise in stock market and real estate prices) 2) Real estate boom and following disaster in the subprime market in US 3) Green energy boom relating to the depleting fossil fuel …

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Savings at the gas pump

Someone who has been in petroleum pipeline business for about 31 years and is currently working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline in San Jose, CA wrote the following information: We deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period from the pipe line; one day it’s diesel, the next day it’s …

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Investment in bullion

Pals,I read following article about gold.Tried to search about pros-cons of this market etc.Anybody following gold market/bonds for gold etc..? If yes, Please share your knowledge about it. Do you think it would be little safe investment down the road?

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Which Stocks are a good buy right now?

Why not make use of the collective intelligence of KV to decide which stocks to buy or which stocks to track ;-)? Which stocks do you think are a good buy right now? We will check back in 3 months and tally the results of your predictions vs actuals? Apple? …

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