E*Trade, Scottrade, and Ameritrade are today’s leading online brokerage companies that offer a simple way to buy and sell stocks. If you’re not an experienced investor, but still want to take a plunge into the stock market, learning about different options available can help you find out the benefits of each. Still, each brokerage offers [...]
If you think the phones currently on the shelf are hot, think again. A hotter crop of smartphones will hit the market later this year. Most cell phone manufacturers have unveiled their best models at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress in last one week. When these hotties make a debut in the market, they may make [...]
For most NRIs as well as the rest of Indians, buying a house is perhaps their biggest one-time investment. A decade back, most of the salaried people in the country and abroad would put their lifetime savings at the fag end of their career to buy a home for themselves. In the past one decade, [...]
The New Yorker, July 21, 2008 Description: The Obama Couple Satire, This cover by famous New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt was heavily criticized by both the McCain and Obama camps during the 2008 US election. While the piece was meant to be a satire of allegations lobbed at the couple by their detractors, its inopportune [...]
The business of building brands is a tough one. And it takes years of hard work, great service, great product, sustained socially responsible work and a lot more to create a brand that people hold store by. In today’s ever-changing economy, entrepreneurs seek specialists’ help to launch their products and create brands. Often big corporate [...]
Be that as it may, bank stability seems to high on corporate and investor agenda now. And it is against this backdrop that the Global Finance magazine has published its 18th annual list of the world’s safest banks. The dust seems to be settling now after two eventful years that witnessed many financial giants drop [...]
Great traders are created, not born. Those who lack discipline, persistence and self-confidence lose the never-ending challenge of trading profits. But those who survive the battle by using the tools used by the masters enjoy the fruits of consistent success. Different master traders use different methods and approaches. But what is that one aspect that [...]
Lehman falls, Merrill sold, AIG nationalised. What next? Remember reading one such headline on a September morning in 2008? And the collapse did not stop there. From the United States to Iceland to Kazakhstan, banks and insurance companies were either acquired or merged or went belly-up thanks to a fatal combination of pure greed, bizarre [...]
Do you think sometimes you work in the wrong place? A slide allows quick access from different floors …. There are also poles available … they are similar to the ones used in fire stations Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink. Each employee has at least two [...]
#1: Lehman Brothers With General Motors becoming the 99th American company this year to go under, the current year may go into record books with a dubious distinction of having maximum number of public company bankruptcies. So far, the record is held by 2001, when as many as 263 companies filed for bankruptcy in the [...]
