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A Leap Forward in Indian Corporate Governance

“Corporate Governance” this has become the most common word these days in the business world. After the Satyam misappropriation case CG is being taken even more seriously than ever before. Investors are demanding even more clarity and greater transparency in company affairs. A lot on corporate governance is talked in India but not much has been taken care off. Much of the reason lies with the Indian investors not being as demanding as they should be. The best evaluator to any company is the market, it values the firm in long term, it punishes the management for every bad decisions taken and also rewards when they do things right. SEBI has issued many directives and mandates to enforce corporate governance but the structural weakness lies in the investor education and financial awareness level in individual investors who don’t understand the power of their voting rights giving incumbent managers take adva ntage of them. With the rise in institutional investors companies are forced to be...
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Performance analysis: Gold vis-a-vis Equities

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With yet another jolt to the equity market the Wall Street's most reputed financial firms, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., headed towards their demise. Lehman Brother Holding Inc. early this morning have filed for bankruptcy and on the other hand sale of Merrill Lynch & Co. to Bank of America. The reason why these firm are at this dire situation of ceasing there existence is the same reason once they witnessed growth, the evil of all for the financial market crises ‘Cheap and bad mortgage loans’ The bubble of which have already consumed Bear Stearn Cos. The effect of the event has spared no region with most of the markets ended in red. Sensex ended the day with decline of 3.35% to 13,531.27. Crude oil also witnessed a decline, but gold price witnessed a growth of 2% today which is the greatest intraday increase after the decline from its all time high on the July of this year. Indian are one of the world largest consumers of gold. People of India for ...
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What is Watermark?

Hi, welcome to Watermark a knowledge sharing portal which I have created to share views and ideas on upcoming events and for an open discussion. So what is Watermark and why did I use it for the name of my blog. Well let me first define watermark “A watermark is a recognizable image or pattern in paper that shows in various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness variations in the paper”. It is generally used as a symbol and depicts the logo of the concern. One remarkable fact of the watermark is, it is clear when u try to look at it with different angles in light and this is what similar to my blog. Knowledge when viewed and shared with others on different facts helps in once development and this blog is my effort to share my knowledge and to develop. I invite all to contribute with your valuable suggestions and share the knowledge which we gain as we grow. Thanks Sourabh ...
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India the next destination for Auto industries

India from the beginning of the year has been in the news for various events that has marked the period some of them have made a deep mark in the Indian corporate world, Sensex witnessing an all time high touching 21K mark in Jan to a free fall in May. Not only India but with the start of this year many developed and developing counties have noted down various events which would be a lesson to learn for the future generations to come. From the sub-prime crises which triggered a slowdown of U.S economy and the buyout of its financial heavy weight “Bear Stern” by JP Morgan, but the much said bad is still not over with the with the fresh news coming and once again rocking wall street with the loss booked by yet another big financial house ‘Lehman Brother’ and raising concern over the huge pile up of bad loans in its balance sheet, shaking investor confidence. Even small news by some unknown sources published by journals tremors the indexes by 3 to 5% a day. In era of such vola...
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