His advice was to always start with small positions because we are bound to make mistakes; and remain humble because the markets can be merciless, remembers Debashis Basu.
With the general election campaign less than six months away, the BJP has more to think about than it had on the eve of 2019. It's the states that will be robbing BJP strategists of their sleep at this point, not the Lok Sabha, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
"Modi ji should apologise. There is no question of our apologising," he added.
The challenge is to enhance opportunities for people to generate livelihoods through entrepreneurship, both big and small, argues R Jagannathan.
Indian industry's doyen Jamsetji Tata has emerged as the biggest philanthropist globally in the last century by donating $102 billion, as per a list of top-50 givers prepared by Hurun Report and EdelGive Foundation.' Tata, the founder of what has now become a group spanning interests from salt to software, is ahead of others like Bill Gates and his now estranged wife Melinda who have donated $74.6 billion, Warren Buffet ($37.4 billion), George Soros ($34.8 billion) and John D Rockefeller ($26.8 billion), the list showed.
They should open up their market to countries like Australia, Germany, America and other free market economies.
The price of spot gold has fallen nearly 6 per cent so far in 2013.
Is Anjani Sinha of National Spot Exchange being made the fall guy?
India will find it difficult to grow in a dynamic way because it has a high debt-to-GDP ratio, says Jim Rogers.
US billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros said that the collapse of the euro will have catastrophic consequences.
SKS was listed on the local bourses in August 2010 at a 5.6 per cent premium on its issue price of Rs 985. It appeared a bet that could hardly go wrong. Broking firms like Edelweiss Capital, Angel Broking, HDFC Securities and India Infoline had recommended to their clients to buy shares of SKS.
Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, is among 19 members chosen by UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing tasked with mobilising funds pledged during the Copenhagen meet to tackle global warming.
Raj Jayadev, the co-founder of the De-Bug grass root group, was recently named one of the 18 Soros Justice Fellows, and will receive $ 75,000 for a project that could also create a better plea bargain environment in San Jose.
Soros has bid for the BSE stake, held by the embattled Dubai Financial Group LLC, through Soros Fund Management LLC, and Kaiser has done so through private equity fund, Argonaut.
Get Ahead presents an interview with Anita Khandelwal, a Yale-educated lawyer of Indian-origin who won a prestigious fellowship in the United States.
Even as the economic crisis ravages global markets, the two billionaires are making investments in firms from America to Australia. According to reports, Soros snapped up a five per cent stake in Australian firm Sphere Investments. In October, he acquired over five per cent of Australian mining firm Legend International. Buffett has bought preferred shares worth $ 5 billion from Goldman Sachs. In addition, he has acquired preferred stocks worth $ 3 billion dollars in GE.
Why do people underestimate the difficulty of making money in the financial markets?
Unaffected by controversies, global financial market heavyweight Soros group, has approached the Indian government, expressing interest to invest in special economic zones in India.
An average investor who has stayed committed to equity thus far should now be averaging down and buying on every dip rather than selling
US-based billionaire's $100 million buy values the Anil Ambani company at $3 billion.
Billionaire investor George Soros said that although the price of oil is rising due to a combination of rise in demand from China, a weakening dollar and the reduction in supply from the Persian Gulf nations, the main reason for the unprecedented spurt in crude price is speculation.
Some of the world's richest people climbed a very long way to get there.
Jim Rogers, expert financial consultant, predicts a US recession in the near future and advises sound investment in agriculture.
The real economy, he said, is now going to enter into quite serious recession, "But if you do the right things, then you could see how you could come out of that recession." In an interview with ABC News, he agreed that the United States would have less power in the world and perhaps American citizens would have less money in the pocket as a result of the crisis.
The world's leading funds and financial institutions have invested in Unitech Corporate Parks Plc, the company that the Unitech Group floated last week at the London Alternative Investment Market.
George Soros, global financial investor and one of the world's richest men, on Tuesday cautioned India against going for full float of rupee and said the government should prevent the economy from getting overheated.
Would Americans have endorsed the war of terror if they were not so scared of death, wonders George Soros in his latest book.
Reliance Communications is in discussions with American billionaire and financier George Soros to raise funds for the Hutch-Essar acquisition.
Soros, dismayed by what he perceives to be the Bush administration's unilateralism abroad and its "authoritarian" politics at home, is on a crusade, the Newsweek magazine says in an article being published in its upcoming issue.
A private equity arm of Citibank has picked up the shares, representing 1.25 per cent stake, at Rs 270 per share, indicating the pricing of the IPO.
The police and bomb disposal squads have been so far successful in safely defusing these crude bombs, which appears to have been sent by the same sender.
The New York Times recently published a report revealing that Facebook at times smeared critics as anti-Semitic or tried to link activists to billionaire investor George Soros, and tried to shift public anger away toward rival tech firms.
57-year-old Kotak is ranked 33rd in the Forbes list of 'Money Masters: The Most Powerful People In The Financial World'
Bids for the issue, which opens on January 23 and closes on January 25, can be made for a minimum of 18 shares and in multiples of 18 thereafter.
The shares - close to 30% of the total holding - are expected to list on rival National Stock Exchange on or around February 3.
BSE, the oldest stock exchange in Asia, aims to raise up to Rs 1,243 crore from the IPO, which has a price band of Rs 805-806 per share.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances