Category: Links

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Why Al-Qaeda finds no recruits in India (BBC)

For guar gum, a bubble goes pop (WSJ)

Why realty exhibitions don’t make a difference to a buyer (Firstpost)

Local investors ignore high FII flows (Mint)

Gujarat-Breaking rules Part 2 (Mediacrooks)

Dan Gertler earns billions of $ from Congo (Bloomberg)

10 trading tips from the trenches (DynamicHedge)

Overheard at the Bloomberg hedge fund summit (TRB)

Insider trading secrets revealed (Nihoncassandra)

The most powerful images of 2012 (Buzzfeed)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Arvind Kejriwal targets Narendra Modi (BusinessLine)

Mumbai financial district turns north (WSJ)

Gold provides Aam Admi with capital convertibility (ET)

CARE IPO seems attractively priced (Mint)

Premji fund back in retail with Heritage Foods stake buy (BS)

Rajdeep,CNN-IBN join Gujarat campaign (Mediacrooks)

Simple bank safety tips (Subramoney)

For Buffett, the long run trumps the quick return (Dealbook)

Investors 10 most common biases (HaganWarren)

Acquisition hubris:Over confident CEOs and Compliant Boards (ADamodaran)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Why central banks are not taking their own advice on gold (Firstpost)

Parsi money key to vulture survival (NYTimes)

L&T plans Rs 5K Crore housing project in Powai (BS)

Fresh fault lines visible in Ayodhya (Mint)

Sahara group looking for sahara (Gaurav)

Top business books 2012 (MyInvestingNotebook)

Embedded leverage and returns (Falkenblog)

Dont count out John Paulson just yet (Dealbreaker)

Warren Buffett’s way (NewYorker)

Olam’s capital raise U-turn (FTAlphaville)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Landing jobs getting harder for Tier II B-schools (BusinessLine)

The Hindu temple ruled by rats (WSJ)

Negative returns in the garb of guarantees (Mint)

No jingle bells for India’s investment bankers (BS)

Nov 2012 closes at 52 week high (CapitalMind)

Bharti Infratel IPO review (OneMint)

Bond investor Gundlach buys stocks (Bloomberg)

How to get startup ideas (Paulgraham)

Goldman:The economic crisis ends in 2013 (BusinessInsider)

NYT finds a weird way to kick Steve Cohen (Dealbreaker)

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

The turbulent reign of Arnab Goswami (Caravan)

Madhu Trehan interviews Naveen Jindal (NewsLaundry)

The road ahead for Mhaiskar and IRB India (ForbesIndia)

Sam Maneckshaw on leadership and discipline (IDR)

Book Excerpt: Sonia Gandhi, the material girl (Durbar)

Sweet deals are made of gas (Tehelka)

Is there any hope for the hung over? (NewYorker)

Indebted dragon (ForeignAffairs)

The first use of OMG was in 1917 letter to Churchill (Smithsonian)

Ratan Tata’s legacy (Economist)

Argentina’s 11 years of war with hedge funds (BusinessWeek)

Mr.China comes to America (Atlantic)

New York’s stiffest drinks (Grubstreet)

Why rich Greeks don’t want to pay taxes (Forbes)

Why the art world is so loathsome (Slate)

10 trailblazers of new Indian cinema (JaiArjun)

Rich man, poor man (WashingtonPost)

Ownership report of Renault Duster (TeamBHP)

Sachin needs to save his legacy from himself (GreatBong)

Book Review:Taleb’s Antifragile (Falkenblog)    (Hattip LordLudus)