Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Stock Market Crash- What Next??

January 21, 2008 was yet another Black Monday followed by Black Tuesday.
Indian Sensex fell by more than 2000 points along with other Asian markets which corrected by 6-10%.
Reason- Growing speculation of US recession. There has been concerns growing about US recession, which will also impact global economy. Emerging economies like Taiwan and China are highly dependent on US exports, which range upto 60% of GDP for taiwan.
For Japan, it is concern on growth on internal japanese economy which got fuelled up by US factor.

US Fed has taken immediate emergency step by rate cut of 0.75% highest ever since 1984. US want to influx confidence in Global market to delete concerns of US economy and recession.
Indian market howevver saw lot of negative action. $160bn gone in 4 hours. In India, market had touched 21000, wherein lot of speculation has taken in place. Power stocks which had een great bull run were deeply hurt which corrected upto 70% in stocks.
Correction might be seen as good opportunity for buying stocks but here are few advice for you:
- Let the market stabilise, retail investors stay away and dont jump in to average in falling market
- Stay invested, what goes down will see its way up
- learn from this burn and invest in stocks based on fundamentals
- Don't run and invest your major part of portfolio in one sector

Monday, January 14, 2008

Supply chain and Marketing- Both gets innovative

Ever thought of food supply chain and finance.... read on for the answer!!!
After achieving six sigma, delivering excellence lectures at IIM Ahmedabad and attracting students from Haword, Dabbawallas have again gone innovative.
Reliance Money has just got new marketing channel via dabbawallah to promote upcoming and most looked after Reliance Power IPO. Dabbawallaa has most extensive network in Bombay which is very difficult to scale to by any other network. Reliance on other hand is all set to make a record breaking IPO offer for its Power company. Reliance marketing team has roped in Dabbawallas to deliver Reliance Money/Power IPO form along with every dabba delivered. Since they cater to people who are working and has huge financial aspirations, Reliance has got a right hit at target market.
Advantage- Reliance power gets marketing and Reliance Money attracts new customers seeing IPOs rush.
Reliance has always been known to focus on retail customer and with this innovative way of marketing, both Dabbawallas and Reliance have proved their innovation yet again to be the leaders.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Funny moment

It is embarassing too!!

When you are in queue to enter a lift and you realise that it just got filled before you could enter.

Man!!! its really funnt to see face expression on person who is standing outside the life..(with all 10 person inside the lift glancing at the other person.... Poor!!