Suzlon Energy and RePower - Best Wind Energy Stock - detailed Analysis

Wind Energy I am bullish on Wind Energy - and other green energies like those from Biofuels. There are several reasons for this and some of them are discussed in my earlier post on Investing in Wind Energy Stocks. No doubt, other forms of energies like Nuclear energy will also play an increasing role. However, there are strong reasons why I think that we will soon see a period where there will be a 'boom' in wind energy, with several companies...

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HR 5623 - Home buyer tax credit extension till Oct. 2010 likely !

H.R. 5623 and tax credit extension H.R. 5623 is a bill which the Congress has come up with extend the Home buyer tax credit by further 90 days (till 01 October 2010) and consequently stop the further deterioration of the housing market in United States. For details of the bill visit Tax credit extension - October 2010. This bill has indeed been passed by the house - read US House backs 2010 tax credit extension. It has to be still passed by the...

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The Future of Wind Power - invest in Wind Energy stocks

Wind energy - The best green, renewable energy of the future The Wind Industry has been growing at the rate of about 20% annually in the past few years (at least if you exclude the years of global recession). One can try to expect similar growth figures in the future. But what this article does is to present (with rigorous support of facts) that there will much greater growth in wind industry by 2015-2020. In other words, the coming decade will...

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TTitan Industries - best stock in Consumer Durables for long term

Titan Industries - best stock to buy now This article plans to convince the reader with facts that Titan industries is one of the best stock available in Consumer durables, (or even when compared to stocks in other sectors). This stock was listed as the Best stock to buy in 2009, and since Jan 2009 (when that post was written) the stock has gained over 150% (as compared to 80% returns given by the index over the same period). The core business of...

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How much money should I invest in Mutual Funds?

Every person should invest in Mutual Funds, except.. Mutual Fund investments are one of the best options for a beginner or even most advanced investors for investing in stock market. Although I pick and buy stocks of good companies myself, I also invest a portion of my money in Mutual Funds, and overall in my past years experience there is nothing I have found to regret about my investment strategy. In spite of all the talk on global recession,...

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Crisil Mutual Funds CPR Ratings - what they tell us

Crisil - Credit ratings agency Crisil is a credit rating agency which rates various companies for their ability to repay back debt. You can read about more about Credit rating agencies here. In addition to this, Crisil also rates mutual funds. Crisil is a well known and reputed company and is a market leader in India (followed by ICRA). Thus the ratings assigned by CRISIL can be taken seriously. CRISIL CPR ratings The ratings assigned to Mutual...

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DSP BLackRock Micro Cap Fund Review and latest news

DSP BlackRock Micro Cap - Introduction DSP BlackRock Micro Cap Fund is the best mutual fund in 'equities diversified' category (best as per according to NSE MF Tracker. Note that this rating 'best' is only based on the past performance of the mutual fund, unlike CRISIL CPR ratings which not only take into account not just performance but also other risk minimizing factors like sector concentration, industry concentration and liquidity. However,...

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Understanding ROE, ROCE and Shareholder's Equity

Return on Equity (Return on Net worth) Return on Equity (ROE), also called as Return on Net Worth, is one of the key financial ratios which indicates how well the management has been efficient in managing the company's assets. In my early days in the investing world, this is the ratio which confused me the most. Return on Equity is defined by the following formula What is confusing in the above formula for beginners is the meaning of 'Shareholder's...

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Topline vs BottomLine Growth - what is a better indicator? Investment Basics)

Topline vs Bottom Line Growth (Anticipated) Growth of a company is an extremely important parameter in deciding the valuation of the company's stock. When a company grows, there are however various parameters which 'grow' when a company 'grows'. Among the most important of these are Growth of a company's sales - This is called as Topline Growth for the simple reason that in accounting the sales of a company are written on the first line 'top line'.Growth...

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How to buy stocks in USA, China or overseas from India?

Indian Investors looking to invest in stock markets abroad Have you been looking for investing opportunities beyond the Indian Stock markets (NSE, BSE)? For e.g. investing in Oil ETFs, or other mutual funds exclusively available in select developed countries like United States or Europe, UK, etc? Or thinking of buying stocks in China? Read on.. the answer to these questions is much simpler than what one would have imagined. RBI allows $25000 foreign...

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Godrej Consumer Products (GPCL) - best FMCG stock

Godrej Consumer products - best FMCG stock Godrej consumer products is a leading FMCG company based in India which manufactures soaps, personal and hair care items, and other home care products like insecticide, hand sanitizers, etc. Some of the popular brands of Godrej include Cinthol (soap), Renew (Hair Color), Colour Soft (Hair Color), Hit (insecticide), Goodknight (mosquito repellent - insecticide), Brylcream (hair styling gel), etc. Godrej...

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