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Linkfest:April 04, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Idlinomics of Chennai Corporation food outlets (BusinessLine)

Poddar keen to take over Mangalore Chemicals (Mint)

60 inch Apple iTV to launch this year (FE)

How to live prosperously without a pay cheque (SafalNiveshak)

Horrendous performance of IDFC Infra Fund (CapitalMind)

Interest rates on Post Office Small Savings Schemes FY 2013-14 (OneMint)

Pepsi bets of fading cricket league (Bloomberg)

How to play America’s railroad boom (DailyReckoning)

Does talking to smart people help your market returns? (Ivanhoff)

Kaeppel’s Big Vs Small Strategy (MarketSci)

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Linkfest:April 03, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Ambani brothers sign business deal (WSJ)

Cash rich Piramal set to invest in infra sector (ET)

Chinese threat to Indian car makers (Mint)

Court refuses relief to Mallya (BusinessLine)

Toxic Satyam stock lures investors (Bloomberg)

Asset allocation and the negative allocation factor (CapitalSpectator)

How do you get a quant job on Wall Street? (Quartz)

April Fool’s pranks were routine on US stock exchanges (Bloomberg)

A sweet spot for US equities (AswathDamodaran)

The skills most entrepreneurs lack (HBR)

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Linkfest:April 02, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

All members of BRICS are slowing down (RuchirSharma)

Mallya sues banks for selling pledged USL shares (FE)

Samsung India gets tax notice (Mint)

What to do when you get a tax notice (BS)

India faces wheat glut (WSJ)

Deutsche Bank’s MD’s 9 Crore down the drain (MumbaiMirror)

15 Charts that should terrify Saudi Arabia (BI)

10 things financial advisers won’t say (MarketWatch)

Very few companies would hire Steve Jobs even today (SiliconValley)

Five really dumb money moves you got to avoid (WSJ)

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Linkfest:April 01, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

How politicians destroyed Meru Cabs (ShaswatDC)

JSPL acquires 31.49% in Gujarat NRE Coking Coal (MoneyControl)

Wipro,Siemens to exit Nifty today (ET)

What capital guaranteed products offer (Mint)

Financial plan for 2013-14 (BS)

What Naipaul got right and wrong about India (Bloomberg)

Short term shareholders are not looking out for the long term and vice versa (Dealbreaker)

Jim Rogers is buying gold coins from North Korea (BI)

Say it with me:Correlation is not same as Causation (BigPicture)

3 Decades after the attempted silver corner, Hunt is again a billionaire (Climateer)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:March 29, 2013

Some interesting off beat reads for this long weekend:

Spoof:Sagarika Ghose goes back in time to live tweet (UnrealTimes)

Mumbai to Goa in an inflatable kayak (TeamBHP)

Is giving the secret to getting ahead? (NYTimes)

European soccer’s master of match fixing (Businessweek)

Movie Review:Django Unchained (JaiArjun)

Moview Review:Rangrezz (VigilIdiot)

Should bribe givers be let off? (IdeasForIndia)

Is Cohen buying off the US govt? (NewYorker)

Canal’s edge: Panama (VanityFair)

What are the BRICs building? (Slate)

The real reason Putin supports Assad (ForeignAffairs)

Photos of Holi,festival of colors (Smithsonian)

India should know its own strength (Economist)

Forget Facebook, American investors like real estate (MarketWatch)

How Samsung became the world’s number one smartphone maker (Businessweek)

Who really broke the UPA? (Tehelka)

Ravi Jaipuria:India’s bottler billionaire (ForbesIndia)

Narendra Modi:Riding his Lucknow (Outlook)

Waiting forever to break free (Open)

Car offers:The devil in the details (Moneylife)