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Linkfest:April 15,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Passive funds dominate India’s FII flows (BS)

European banks now pay borrowers ! (WSJ)

How Vijay Mallya tipped the scales in the MCFL takeover battle (Mint)

The trouble with Mutual Fund Star ratings (FreeFinCal)

Warren Buffett on the stock market,circa 1999 (Charles)

Commodity crash is 2nd worst in four decades (Short Side of Long)

Should,must and Apple’s little details (Om Malik)

The markets are on fire now in these 3 countries (Daily Reckoning)

The Small Cap Premium: Where is the beef? (Aswath Damodaran)

Larry Fink’s letter to CEOs (BI)

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Chart

Chart: Japanification of Europe is complete

Source:Charlie Bilello

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Cartoon

Cross Selling Financial Products

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Links

Linkfest: April 14,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Reliance Jio to start services by June (Mint)

Alok Industries in a soup (FE)

Suzlon or South Indian Bank? (Gaurav)

Gold-Investment of fear (Bala)

How to reap big benefits from small saving schemes (ET)

Potential impact of Real Estate Regulatory Bill (Capital Mind)

The impossible trade is working (TRB)

The stock market is NOT the economy (Cordant)

Why trading is hazardous to one’s wealth (Forbes)

The $9 Trillion short that is sending the $ higher (Bloomberg)

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Anecdotes

What does that mean for God?

In 2010, Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s petroleum minister and the world’s de facto energy czar escorted Chu to visit King Abdullah at his palace in the desert oasis of Rawdhat Khuraim. The elderly monarch was in a philosophical mood and took the opportunity to pose a few questions to the Nobel laureate physicist, says US Ambassador Smith, who went along for the visit.

“Tell me how the universe was formed,” the king asked, in Smith’s recounting. Chu patiently laid out the story of the Big Bang theory. “What does that mean for God?” the monarch said. Chu and Smith conferred for a moment on an appropriate, diplomatic response. “There are some things we know, and for other things, we have God,” Chu replied.-from NYTimes