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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)
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What I learnt from Bernard Baruch
This post is in continuation of my What I Learned From series (see here)
Bernard Baruch was an American investor,speculator and financier who amassed a fortune trading in the American stock markets.
What I learnt from him: One of his most famous quotes is:Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
This post is in continuation of my 5 Stocks series (see here)
5 stocks that are deleveraging their balance sheets are given below (source:Capital Markets):
| Company | Total Debt (Crore) | D/E Ratio Latest | D/E Ratio Highest |
| Bajaj Electricals | 192.42 | 0.24 | 2.89 |
| Exide Industries | 32.16 | 0.03 | 1.09 |
| Force Motors | 59.69 | 0.03 | 1.09 |
| Mcleod Russel | 263.1 | 0.27 | 1.31 |
| Tata Global Beverages | 915.59 | 0.18 | 1.47 |