Author: Raoji

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Linkfest:Aug 11,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

The long term investor always comes out ahead of the short term trader (WP)

10 reasons India is better prepared for US monetary tightening (ET)

Mumbai’s real estate market becomes even more surreal(RiseofHindustan)

When do Active Investment Managers underperform and outperform? (BI)

Did the UPA mislead the country on the Bali pact? (Mint)

‘Kick’ Box Office collections at 300 Crores? (FE)

Power Stocks (BL)

Churlish Congress lets slip the dogs of war (Swapan Dasgupta)

What is 8K Miles and why is DSP Blackrock buying a chunk of it? (RJ)

Mutual Funds:Why Indians don’t invest (BeMoneyAware)

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Letters

Sean Connery writes to Steve Jobs

Hat Tip Andrew Bloch
Steve Jobs asks Sean Connery to appear in an ad for Apple.Here is his reply:

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Video

The battle for Iraq

Warning:The video contains violent scenes and viewer discretion is advised

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: Aug 08,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How SREI Infra recovered money from Kingfisher Airlines (Forbes)

One Aspirin a day keeps the cancer away (Smithsonian)

Alibaba’s IPO marks the end of US e-Commerce dominance (Businessweek)

Monkey See,Monkey Click (NewYorker)

Watching the eclipse in Russia (NewYorker)

Gaza – A man’s war (Atlantic)

Nepal-The ticking time bomb (IDR)

Vladimir Putin Vs Garry Kasparov (NYTimes)

How Modi Tackled the”Where are the Acche Din Question” (UnrealTimes)

Auto Review:Tata Zest (TeamBHP)

Maruti Workers from Manesar are still in jail (Outlook)

Cricket & Pakistan-The Curse of the Game (MJ Akbar)

Why did Indians not venture out into the sea? (Quora)

Is Modi keeping tab on what his ministers are wearing? (GossipGuru)

Lajja (Taslima Nasrin)

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CoatTailing

Bank Of India shows which stocks to avoid

When a PSU Bank holds equity stakes in a company, it is usually because the company has defaulted on its loans and the Bank is forced to take equity as part of the debt restructuring arrangement.

This portfolio of Bank Of India perfectly illustrates this:

Symbol Entity # of Shares % Date End
3IINFOTECH BANK OF INDIA 8933208 1.55 201406
AICHAMP Bank Of India 480200 1.75 201406
CRANESSOFT BANK OF INDIA 11291723 9.59 201406
EUROCERA BANK OF INDIA 1023751 3.03 201406
GTL BANK OF INDIA 6099512 3.88 201406
GTLINFRA BANK OF INDIA 78160268 3.38 201406
KFA BANK OF INDIA 8723635 1.08 201406

 

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