Finance

How to Calculate Percentage Yield

by Ankit Agarwal on January 14, 2012

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Percent yield is basically the amount of success you had measured against the amount of success you expected to have or would have had in ideal situations; so basically it is actual gain measured against projected gain. Percent yield is most often used in chemistry to measure how successful a reaction is; calculating percent yield [...]

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Most Influential Central Banks Worldwide

by Ankit Agarwal on July 20, 2011

Generally, there are eight world central banks that are the key players in the currency market. The first four are the US Federal Reserve System, European Central Bank, Bank of England, and Bank of the Japan. Let’s go over the remaining four world central banks that play no less importance in the state of affairs [...]

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Banking

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With everything related to commerce or finance available online, internet banking can provide ease of business and satisfaction for the technologically aware, and a headache for the newcomer Almost every bank, credit union or building society offers internet services in the 21st Century. The use of internet banking can provide one with a helpful resource [...]

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SEBI Earmarks Technology Investment To Boost Market Surveillance

SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board Of India) has in the last few years been in the thick of the action to improve the overall efficiency of the investment market in India. Some of the noteworthy initiatives have been the increase of retail investor limit in IPO to 2 lakh, reducing IPO listing time to 7 [...]

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Private Sector Banks Perform Better Than Public Sector Banks

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Banking sector had been in turmoil ever since the economic crisis in the US. Private Banks got the bad end of the stick and faced severe liquidity crunch for a long time.However, things are changing for good as far as the performance of private banks is concerned. The year 2010 has turned out great for [...]

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Numbers Of Note: India’s Foreign Reserves, IIP Figures Improving

The global economic stability is far from over. But from India’s perspective, there is a little hope of improvement. Even though the stock markets have been on a topsy turvy ride for sometime, the overall progress of India on the economic front is showing signs of improvement. We take stock of two of the critical [...]

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India & China Decrease Exposure In US Securities,Japan & UK Increase

Talk about U.S. being the most dominant player in the Financial Ecosystem and there sure will be hundred instances of why it actually is. Anything and Everything that happens with respect to the U.S economy is sought up with interest by other economies.However, ever since the not so famous U.S. credit crisis which led to [...]

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7+1 Reasons Why You Should Be Investing In Gold Coins

Investing in gold is the best place to put your money. Gold coins have many great qualities which make them valuable in many ways and in this economy buying gold is a smart way to secure your future.In our quest for diversifying the investment portfolio, Gold  makes an interesting choice as an investment vehicle. Their [...]

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Motilal Oswal Gets Approval To Open Its Mutual Fund Business

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Motilal Oswal Financial Services- The BSE listed company has said that it has received the final certificate of approval from SEBI to launch its own Mutual Fund Scheme.Given the way the Indian Mutual Fund market has been at the forefront of action for sometime, it is only likely that more and more established brokerage houses [...]

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Sensex falls To 6 week lows!!Is It going to continue

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  The benchmark Sense BSE fell by almost 70 points today closing at 16283.49.The fall was primarily due to heavy profit booking on every rise.With this, the BSE completed three days of continuous losing streak. The Indian markets have had some sort of Bull run for quite sometime now, and the markets were trading around [...]

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