Reliance Industries: The Success Story Continues

Dhirubhai was a karmayogi. He always believed in karma and his work spoke louder than announcements. He has delivered some of the marvels to Indian industries. Keeping up with his tradition, RIL has implemented several world class projects during last few years. RIL, in the past four years, has set up a world class refinery in record time with investment... Read More »

GLOBAL MELT DOWN -AN ECONOMIC DIMENSION

In recent times, the apprehensions of a downturn become perceptible in the United States. As the maxim goes, whenever the US sneezes, the world catches a freezing. This is apparent from the way the Indian markets worn-out taking an indication from a plausible recession in the US and a global economic hold back. Deteriorating of the American economy... Read More »

Gold’s Trinune Opportunity

There are many theories about investments and things do change from era to era; however, we are living in the here-n-now, so what’s SAFE in these times within which we are living? Or, is there any safe investment? Obviously, I have been saying for a decade now that gold would exceed $1,500 an ounce (most probably before the end of 2010 1Q) and... Read More »

Does The Down Economy Have An Upside?

Men’s underwear sales supposedly predict the state of the economy. Usually sales are stable, with men buying an average of 3.4 pairs yearly; but during bad economic times, men put off buying new underwear. Sales began to slow in 2008 when the recession took hold. From 2004 to 2008 the number of men buying one pair at a time increased from 5% to 8%.... Read More »

What is the recession and ways to prevent it

By Makhsudul Islam Although the term is much in the news these days yet there is still confusion about what exactly a recession is. Open a newspaper, switch on to a news channel on TV, browse on the Internet – and one of the main topics of concerned discussion these days seems to be the recession. Economic gurus, business pundits, vexed politicians;... Read More »

What Is The Cause Of The World Recession?

The origins of the recent recession can be found in the US and was due primarily to the collapse of the ‘sub-prime’ mortgage market. Banks leant borrowers money to buy homes even though they were deemed as a poor credit risk. When the introductory interest rates finished these borrowers struggled with their payments and consequently defaulted on... Read More »

Reliance May Stop Gas Supply to Anil Ambani Company on Payments

Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s most valuable company, issued a notice to suspend gas supplies to Reliance Infrastructure Ltd for defaulting on payments. The notice, issued on Sept. 22, is for gas supplies from the KG-D6 field off the nation’s east coast to Reliance Infrastructure’s power plant in Andhra Pradesh state, Reliance Industries said... Read More »

Transparency in the Management of Natural Resources

In most of the developing countries, these resources are useless to the common man or ordinary citizen – meaning the real owners of theses natural resources are left out whilst foreigners or strangers come and benefit from it. With a close researched, I came to realise that there is no transparency in most of these developing countries. Because of... Read More »

An Inflation Bubble Is Coming

America has lived a life of luxury at the expense of the rest of the world and we’re soon going to discover that we are in the same boat. In other words we’ve been shooting ourselves in the foot with irrational spending, deficit spending, and yet we still think we can bail out newspapers, the US Post Office, and provide healthcare to 45... Read More »

OECD Tax Clampdown May Benefit Singapore

A recent news report in Channel News Asia’s website stated that many high net worth individuals and enterprises may look towards Singapore to park their assets as the United States tightens the noose around the tax evaders. The traditional tax havens, which have long enjoyed the preference of the rich, are loosing the charm as their images have... Read More »

No justification for NTPC’s Rs 32K cr savings talk: RIL

The gas battle continues to rage. Reliance has reacted to National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) charge that NTPC will save Rs 32,000 crore if Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) delivers gas at USD 2.34 per mmbtu. RIL’s sources have very categorically said that there is no justification for NTPC to talk about the savings of... Read More »

A Golden Basement Floor?

Has gold now set a floor in at $1,000? I’ve been advocating $1,500-$2,500 for eight years now; however, there are certain psychological boundaries that seem to matter: $1,000 gold is one of them. That magical figure was hit in early 2008 but fell back. Several runs have been made since then; however, it seems that the most recent breakthrough... Read More »

The value of your real estate investment is at risk

As real estate values keep losing ground, many are still asking why.  The answers may not be what everyone wants to hear. The questions will remain as predictions of a recovery are still not reflecting any positives for the average consumer. It still amazes me that many feel a recovery has started.  As those receiving unemployment beg for any kind... Read More »

Foreclosure Crisis Shatters the American Dream for Hispanics

Juan M. Alvarez is a by-the-books kind of guy.  When he immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s, he hired a lawyer to assure his paperwork was correct. With his blue-collar salary from a large home building company several miles east of San Francisco, his family of four lived on a frugal budget as he diligently set aside money to purchase... Read More »

Singapore’s Company Registration Specialist says time is ripe for entrepreneurs to take advantage of upcoming rebound

Singapore’s Company Registration Specialist says time is ripe for entrepreneurs to take advantage of upcoming rebound. Hyatt, Burger King, IHOP, The Jim Henson Company, LexisNexis, FedEx Corp, Microsoft Corp, CNN, MTV Networks, Trader Joe’s, Wikipedia Foundation, Sports Illustrated, GE, HP, IBM, Procter & Gamble, United Technologies.... Read More »

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