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Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Why technical analysis is shunned by professionals (FollowingTheTrend)

Investors can give a miss to NCML’s IPO (ET)

Closed end funds protect investors (Mint)

Govt plans rolling list for PSU stake sale (BS)

The Sharon Bio-Medicine fiasco (RJ)

How to think about bear markets (Swedroe)

Meb Faber Timing model on Nifty (Prashant)

Be grateful you did not put all your money in oil and gold (Bloomberg)

A history of oil prices since 1861 (Bl)

The best and worst investments of 2014 (Bloomberg)

Wishing all readers a Merry Xmas.

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Brokerages devise new strategies to lure customers (ET)

Santa rally eludes Indian bourses (Mint)

Insurance,coal reforms takes ordinance route (FE)

ROE is key for picking stocks (R Balakrishnan)

A difficult dialog on real estate (Subramoney)

Pune flat buyers go on candle lit protest against builders (Ravi)

Child plans of Mutual Funds (GoodMoneying)

10 most popular investing excuses (Rich Hagen)

BWM’s little secret (Beyond Proxy)

2014:The year that nothing in investment decision making worked (Fortune)