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Commodities slump sends slow ripples through world economy
Lower airfares, cheaper food and rising profit margins are among the benefits that should flow from tumbling oil and commodity ......
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Exports fall in FY13; March pick-up offers current account relief
India's exports fell 1.8 pct in the 2012/13 fiscal year, the trade ministry said on Thursday, but they were up ......
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Chidambaram says current account deficit could be halved in 1-2 years
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday he expected India's current account deficit for the 2012/13 fiscal year that ended ......
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Destructive "groupthink" versus rational analysis
60 years ago, the great social psychologist, Solomon Asch, did all of us a big favour. Through a series of ......
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The Golden rule? Thoughts on gold as an investment
Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, gold is a "riddle, wrapped up in a mystery inside an enigma", at least as far as ......
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A note on contrarian investing
Fred Wilson has a post up this morning title Return and Ridicule which talks about the dangers of herd investing. ......
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Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform
Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, and others ......
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The inventory vs marketplace model debate
There has recently been increased discussion, and mainstream press reporting, on the adoption of a ‘marketplace’ model (vs. an inventory ......
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The next big thing
If you live in a tech friendly city like San Francisco or Austin, odds are you’ve used a mobile payments ......
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There is always an option for an IPO or fundraising, but there has to be a compelling reason for it: Stuart Crighton, CEO, Cleartrip
Cleartrip Travel Services Pvt Ltd, which runs the online travel booking site Cleartrip.com, claims to be doing over 5 lakh ......
