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Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Nasdaq closes above 4000 first time in 14 years (ET)

Cairn India unveils 5,725 Crore buyback program (Mint)

Govt zeroes in six firms for divestment (BS)

Hartosh Bal on Tehelka’s overdue demise (FirstPost)

26/11 The Siege-All pain and nothing gained (Mediacrooks)

Failure is the most likely option (ArnoldKling)

Mr.Market’s asset allocation is hard to beat (CapitalSpectator)

10 things billionaires won’t tell you (Marketwatch)

The mythical merits of paper money (RonPaul)

Someone still loves Steve Cohen (Dealbreaker)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Pfizer Wyeth combination yields a surprise dividend (Mint)

Will Tehelka’s real owners please stand up? (ET)

Your wait for the big IT refund got longer (BS)

CBI registers 100 Crores case against SBI MD (FE)

Why Rupee is crawling towards 64 (Firstpost)

Sony’s Playstation taught greatest trading lesson (Bloomberg)

Quant Giant has best month over due to shorts (Zerohedge)

Hugh Hendry throws in the bearish towel (TRB)

An anthropologist’s observations about banking jobs (eFC)

When losses are good for your portfolio (DailyReckoning)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Fearless Extortionists (Mediacrooks)

How I became a Fort conservationist (Open)

Will Mulayam Singh Yadav be the PM in 2014? (Tehelka)

A radioactive death (OutlookIndia)

The unstoppable boys of Punjabi Pop (Caravan)

News Laundry interviews Hartosh Bal (Newslaundry)

BR Shetty:Building a healthcare empire (Forbes)

This entire country is about to be wiped out by climate change (BusinessWeek)

Bill Marriott:Sixty years a hotelier (Economist)

10 of the best quotes ever as per Reddit users (Marketwatch)

How women change men (Atlantic)

Summer in Sikkim (Ghummakar)

On Sachin and the Bharat Ratna (GreatBong)

Movie Review:Ram Leela (VigilIdiot)

In Pictures:When Sachin batted for the last time (UnrealTimes)

Using data to hire,fire and promote (Atlantic)

Whats it like to fail (Priceonomics)

The many faces of Hindi movie Maa (Jabberwock)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Apex Court grounds Subrata Roy (BL)

Ajay Piramal group to build realty finance company (ET)

NSEL Investor settlement in sight (FE)

Red flag over realty exposure of banks (BS)

Fifth richest man of Oman murdered in Mumbai (MumbaiMirror)

India Inc sitting on a debt time bomb (Firstpost)

Value in the eye of the storm (AswathDamodaran)

Where do I look for investment ideas (AlephBlog)

Twitter Employee Millionaires flock to high tech low touch wealth advisor (Yahoo)

Confluence of Mutual Fund Industry,2013 (Subramoney)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Warren Buffett’s Exxon Bungle (Bloomberg)

Warren Buffett Vs The Salad Oil Swindler Nov 1963 (TRB)

Making your investment policy statement (Morningstar)

Diesel price hike coming (FE)

Market recovery:A long torturous affair (Mint)

Soni family’s break came from Gujarat Govt (BS)

Nexus 5 officially in India (Firstpost)

The two Lucknows during the Muslim Holy month (NYTimes)

20 ATM Security tips for Indians (BasuNivesh)

Wise crowds tell no lies (MarginalRevolution)

Rich make same investment errors as rest (FT)