2007 1

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone

Firstly, views on the Apple iPhone: great. Next impression: not so great. You can’t use it with your eyes closed. And yesterday, Cisco sues Apple for iPhone trademark infringement. In a video on intellectual property, James Boyle at Duke Law School says, when a company starts suing over intellectual property, it’s a good time to dump their stock.

2003 1

i2 delisted

i2 delisted. Now, somebody is going to buy them cheap.

2002 3

Companies with good governance

The STAR exchange is a stock exchange listing companies with good governance. That’s a good criterion to list by, given the accounting we read about. This exchange has managed to outperform the conventional counterpart (Borsa), BTW.

Stock market falls when the Parliament is in session

The stock market falls when the Parliament is in session. Particularly if the Budget is discussed. Personally, I would attribute it to investor over-optimism. I don’t see how the politicians take bad decisions more than half the time, because in that case, we’re better off without them. Hmm…

IBM acquires PwC Consulting

IBM acquires PwC Consulting. Or what would’ve been Monday. For $3.5 bn. I heard somewhere that the stock price of acquiring companies typically fall after such announcements. IBM’s didn’t. Does that mean they got PwC at a low price? Given that HP once refused them at $18 bn, maybe…

2001 7

Warren Buffet has no plans to sell

Warren Buffet has no plans to sell stocks. Maybe it’s time for us to buy, then?

KPMG Consulting going public

KPMG Consulting is going public.

Keep 30 stocks

“Studies have shown that…” idiosyncratic risk in stocks is higher. So, have 30 stocks in your portfolio.

Investor Guide

Investor Guide: pretty good on news.

Investors are smart

Investors are smart. Disney kills Go.com. Stock rises. Sega kills Dreamcast. Stock rises. Lesson: kill it if it won’t work.

Earthquake and impact

Earthquake. We were in class this morning. We started off with 2 minutes of silence for the earthquake victims. At about 8:15AM, we felt a slight shake. We quickly ran out of the room and down the stairs. By this time, the tremors got fairly strong but they lasted only 7-8 seconds. At around lunch time, the estate officer said we were expecting more tremors at noon, so we lined up at the open air theatre, but nothing happened. ...

NASDAQ in Bangalore

Nasdaq will open in Bangalore.

2000 4

Fed will lower rates in Jan 2001

You can use the Fed Futures to get the market’s estimate of whether the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates. My guess, based on the numbers is that it will happen in late January 2001. Buy up stocks before then!

More IPOs to come

Now that SEBI has relaxed the IPO floor from Rs. 250 crores to Rs. 100 crores, we can see a lot more IPOs.

Moneycontrol.com

moneycontrol.com is an Indian financial site. Yahoo gets most of its Indian news feed from here. Comments Jayesh 22 Nov 2000 12:00 pm: very good site

Online trading in India

Geojit securities was the first site where you could trade stocks online. ICICIDirect followed. Now there’s a whole bunch (based on a Khoj search): Abhipra, Agroy, Ansec, iBroking India bulls, Investment map and Stock mantra. I’m going to start an account soon. Comments ramesh 25 Jul 2000 12:00 pm: the correct link of Geojit Securies is www.geojit.com thank you