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• NASDAQ Stock Market Boost for Companies in India - Editor, 30 October 2006 - No Comments yet

There is a stock market romance in the air! Suitors from New York search for and court top companies all over India! NASDAQ has launched a frontal attack to get listings from the country. NASDAQ has an Indian office in the garden city of Bangalore, home to such stock market legends as Infosys. Having such comprehensive resources at ground zero is a big plus for NASDAQ, because there are so many accounting and legal bridges for Indian companies to cross before they can list on a U.S. stock market.

• Stock Market Boom or Bust - Editor, 27 October 2006 - No Comments yet

Why do some initiatives fail to make the stock market grade, while apparently similar ones enjoy unprecedented successes? Experts say that Information Technology is different in key respects from dotcoms, but lay people may be forgiven for wondering why some computer and Internet use is so profitable, while others seem to have no commercial application whatsoever. Why could the dotcoms not adjust their business models in time?

• Batten Down Your Stock Market Portfolio to Weather Storms on the Horizon - Editor, 20 October 2006 - No Comments yet

No stock market is immune from the geo politics of July 2006. The Middle East strife enters a new phase with the involvement of Lebanon. The implications for oil and energy are obvious to most stock market investors, but there are many other threats and opportunities as well. Uncertainty about global trade and the absence of any binding regulation on exchange rates combine to make the U.S. stock market scene as cause for special concern.

• The Stock Market Quarter Mania! - Editor, 16 October 2006 - No Comments yet

There is a popular conception that the stock market never forgives a quarter which is not way ahead of the same one last year! There is plenty of substance to these kinds of stock market expectations, but does it drive managements around the bend? As the pressure for ever improving financial reporting produces extreme focus on niches, this in turn, leads to earth-shaking risks related to the futures of the niches. Changes in fashion trends, customer boredom with old brands, and technological obsolescence, are the most recurrent examples of eventual stock market failure arising out of narrow focus.

• Stock Market Showpiece - Editor, 12 October 2006 - No Comments yet

Though the Indian Ocean has been unkind to parts of this littoral country, the Jakarta stock market is a symbol of the exciting development path adopted by Indonesia.

Indonesia is a young nation in every sense of the term. A third of the population, which is larger than that of the United States, is less than 15 years old. The stock market, in its modern form, opened its doors only in 1977. The country took shape only towards the middle of the 20th century, shrugging off centuries of Dutch colonialism and World War II subjugation by the Japanese as well.

• A Choppy Stock Market Launch - Editor, 9 October 2006 - No Comments yet

Even the smallest stock market investor in India must have heard the name! GMR Infrastructure Limited (GMR hereafter) was virtually unknown to investors just a year ago. The company shot in to prominence when, as a very dark horse indeed, it shot past some of India’s top engineering companies, to win tenders to build and to operate modern airports for India ay important centers, including at the capital city of New Delhi.

• The Dubai Stock Exchange: An Interesting Combination - Editor, 2 October 2006 - No Comments yet

One has a stock market culture that other countries strive to copy. The other has only just begun to apply modern financial concepts to its legendary commercial acumen. Competitors around the world have reason to worry when these two spectacular centers of influence come together! It’s the growing trade links between Singapore and Dubai that are significant for the 21st century evolution of the stock market structure. Domestic companies may have become complacent in the boom years of the past decade as funds have begun to chase top picks in the stock market environment of rapid and steady GDP growth.

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