[khushi4406]

Originally Posted by seshadri.r

At last,
I found a thread where i can contribute a little.
I do regularly get ET(Mon-Fri as sat and sun it is bit costly ).
I can post the Editorial daily or at the worst case twice in a week
covering all the Editorials for that particular week.

I'd post last weeks Editorial tomorrow...Before that

1. We shouldnt stop by just posting that Editorial.

2. We should also mark the words that we r not able to make out.

3. At the End Of the week after posting the Last Editorial for that week
saturday/sunday we have to post all the words what we have learnt in that
week.Without which we shouldnt move ahead..

4. We MOnitor this for a month and after that we shall decide how shd we go ahead..

Do u agree friends???


Regards,
Seshadri

yups ... i do agree...
thank god !! atlast v having smone to post ..
well u hav suggested a vry nice way of both comprehension nd vocab stuff..
lets start wid post frm bachchan

[khushi4406]

Originally Posted by Bachchan

Here's one article ...a bit different.. only for u folks...enjoy

Immunising the self to one's happiness

Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom King Edward sacrificed the throne of England, once said you couldn’t be too rich or too thin. Had she been familiar with weird science emerging out of an outfit called the American Mental Health Consortium, she might also have warned you against the dangers of being too happy or getting too lucky for your own good.

Happiest folks around the world supposedly face the risk of developing a newly identified syndrome called ‘Post-Euphoric Bliss Disorder’. According to the consortium’s spokesman, the ‘serenity disease’ that can turn extreme good luck into devastating misfortune is most likely to develop after the sudden death of an unloved one, winning the lottery, or passing the bar.

That’s when victims of the disease begin to suffer from an enervating series of flashbacks capturing their original moment of glory. So if a bliss-sufferer’s fifty-room mansion catches fire in the fireworks of birthday celebrations, or if his private jet suddenly stalls at 40,000 feet, he could be so lost in his reverie of prior happiness that he is unable to save himself.

The pathology of repeatedly going into ‘good times past’ could be a mirror image what happens during post-traumatic stress disorder. The only difference is that bliss replaces negative trauma, to cause similar debilitation from excessive indulgence of positive recall.

Malcolm Renner who allegedly made a billion-dollar killing in the sale of his website recently is one such victim who almost died because of his body’s inability to ‘metabolise’ excessive happiness: He found himself completely paralysed by joy, while being barely able to tell that his Masserati was teetering on the edge of a mountain road in Tuscany.

Luckily, for him the supermodels in his back seat had been nibbling on celery stalks for breakfast: had they been an ounce lighter, he said he wouldn’t have been there to warn people about the dangers of having too much happiness!

Those wanting to protect themselves from going over the top with extreme good fortune are advised to practise exposure therapy, to immunise themselves to their happiness.

One exercise offered by the consortium involves swimming in a room filled to the brim with cash like Uncle Scrooge often does in Walt Disney’s Duck Tales. This reportedly desensitises you to problems of plenty. Hair shirts and carrying of crosses may be cheaper.

Immunising the self to one's happiness-Editorial-Opinion-The Economic Times

hmmm.... well i never thought tht too much happiness cld b dangerous too ..
well ... its rightly said .. excess of everytg is bad ..
so ppl try controlling ur emotions ...
words:
enervate : deprive of vigour
debilitate:enfeeble
.....

[Obsessed_bout_mba]

Originally Posted by manu_pr28

Hi,
Sorry to make a small correction.. It is not 'grammer' .. it is 'grammar'.. i feel that muggging up will not help you in a big way... instead of that if you can read daily the below items meticulously i feel that the RC skills and vocabs can be improved... I am also doing the same thing.. and believe me these are not rocket science..

1. ET editorials
2. Any English daily.. I Would prefer Hindu... with this two you can cover some good sectors..
3. Some philosophical stuffs. et al.
4. Some scientific stuff
5. Some literature related..

If you can really put in your effort in these lines it will be very useful.. not only for CAT but for years to come.... and you can really shine in GDs...

These suggestions are open to debate..

Hi..sorry for that spellin mistake.
anyway..thank u very much..ll get back if i need further help

[Bachchan]

this is one from Absurdity of 'Thinking in Language'...only a part of the article... here it goes............enjoy
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter;
therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone;...
(Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn)

But there are in fact no unhearable melodies, no ears other than the "sensual," no ditties of no tone.
What those who speak of silent discourse have in mind is, no doubt, the fact that interlaced with our thinking of or about things is a great deal of imaging of linguistic entities. (This is especially true of academics or intellectuals in general, because of their great concern with expression of thought. Probably an adequate phenomenology of thinking would exhibit great contrast between them and other classes of persons precisely at the relation between thinking and degree of activity in imaging linguistic entities and events.) But imaging a word is not using a word, any more than imaging a horse is using a horse. Moreover, imaging a word, phrase, or sentence is not producing or perceiving a word, phrase, or sentence any more than imaging a horse is producing or perceiving--or otherwise 'having'--a horse. To image a linguistic sequence is not to have it in a special sort of place--the mind--nor is it to have a special sort of linguistic sequence. To image is to exemplify a certain sort of thinking or intentional state, and a sort which does have interesting relationships with other kinds of thinking. But there is no reason at all to suppose that all kinds of thinking necessarily involve or are accompanied by this kind of thinking (imaging) directed upon language segments. And if there were, it still would not follow that all thinking requires language, since this kind of thinking about language segments is not itself language at all. Nor does it require any <130> language present in order for it to come to pass, since intentional inexistence applies to mental events when language segments are the objects, as well as when sticks and stones and animals are.

[seshadri.r]

Friends as promised.... i'm starting with ur blessings .
I'm posting first half of the article,Rest later

Bullish on NSE
Economies Of Scale Work For Exchanges

Stock Exchanges,which for much of their history used to be
the place where deals were done,have suddenly started doing deal
themselves.The NEw York Stock-Exchange's purchase of a 5% stake
in India's National Stock Exchange is part of a wave of tramsactions
in which the world's bourses have been buying into each other.The NYSE this
week agreed to acquire Euronext while the London Stock Exchange(LSE)
has been busy fending off the advances of Nasdaq,NYSE's electronic rival.The fall
in communication costs, an increase in computing power and easing of capital controls
have meant trading can be consolidated in one place.Companies based in US now
can be traded in London.Economies of scale work for exchanges.
As the number of listed Companies goes up so does the number of buyers
and sellers,increasing liquidity.Also most traders need not go to excahnge trade.They
can do sitting in office,sometimes on a different continent.

[khushi4406]

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
dnt hav ne knowledge regarding stock xchange ...
can neone guide me !!

[Bachchan]

Originally Posted by khushi4406

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
dnt hav ne knowledge regarding stock xchange ...
can neone guide me !!

hmmnnn....well whtvr m gonna say will be helpful to those who r preparing for GD/PI and also those who r planning for d future....
u guys need to understand the broader picture regarding stock markets...in the sense tht .... for eg...questions maybe..

1. wht does a boooming stock mkt mean for d economy of country....
2. how does interest rates affect...traders...bankers...common man..export-import.....
3. wht does inflation mean for all d above agencies..
4. how does exchange rate affects export-imports...
5. Oil prices ...going up/down...wht does it reflect...
6. which sectors r doing good ...why...
7. remember core sectors r imp..... keep track of whts happening in infrastructure sector.....

jst to put it simply....u try to grasp some macro-economic fundamentals .....to understand d economy and how any factor...say flood/war/etc...affects diff parties....

dont try to go deep into how d stock mkt functions.....nobody will ask options/futures/bonds etc for tht sake in PI .....these things come later....
jst look wht a stock mkt does ..( Its a transaction place...whr those with funds and those needing funds interact thru some processes.....putting crudely)

so....Focus on economy...country....remember the big picture...

cheer and Good Luck:satisfie:

[Bachchan]

Originally Posted by khushi4406

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
dnt hav ne knowledge regarding stock xchange ...
can neone guide me !!

hmmnnn....well whtvr m gonna say will be helpful to those who r preparing for GD/PI and also those who r planning for d future....
u guys need to understand the broader picture regarding stock markets...in the sense tht .... for eg...questions maybe..

1. wht does a boooming stock mkt mean for d economy of country....
2. how does interest rates affect...traders...bankers...common man..export-import.....
3. wht does inflation mean for all d above agencies..
4. how does exchange rate affects export-imports...
5. Oil prices ...going up/down...wht does it reflect...
6. which sectors r doing good ...why...
7. remember core sectors r imp..... keep track of whts happening in infrastructure sector.....

jst to put it simply....u try to grasp some macro-economic fundamentals .....to understand d economy and how any factor...say flood/war/etc...affects diff parties....

dont try to go deep into how d stock mkt functions.....nobody will ask options/futures/bonds etc for tht sake in PI .....these things come later....
jst look wht a stock mkt does ..( Its a transaction place...whr those with funds and those needing funds interact thru some processes.....putting crudely)

so....Focus on economy...country....remember the big picture...

can visit- Investopedia.com - Your Source For Investing Education for some general gyan ...cheer and Good Luck:satisfie:

[padfoot]

Ok count me in for this !! Though not got through any MBA exam this time !! Will start contributing here !

Anyways was reading through the posts here comes a guide on Stocks. Mods if this is a copyright please tell me , will remove it straightaway !


A very old one but good !!

[chopper builder]

hey thanks for opening this thread.....
here it goes...
NYSE-NSE deal done,now Nasdaq-BSE

NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of exchanges buying into exchanges, tapping into transnational pools of liquidity, this circular was issued to the shareholders of the London Stock Exchange: “Without Nasdaq Your LSE Shares Would be Worth Far Less.” This week, when the world’s largest stock exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) came shopping for a 5% stake in the National Stock Exchange, Nasdaq issued this 34-page circular following its £2.7 billion hostile bid for LSE.

A giant takeover is set to emerge in the weeks to come. So far, the LSE has not settled for £12.43 per share hostile bid offered by Nasdaq. It is understood that chief executive Clara Furse estimates that the exchange is worth over £15 a share. LSE has resisted the offer because “Nasdaq’s offer does not even begin to offer fair value.”

The exchange has warded off several unsolicited bids in the past including Germany’s Deutsche Borse in 2004, Australian investment group Macquarie, and Nasdaq’s bid in March 2006 for £2.4 billion. Ever since, Nasdaq has been scaling up its stake in the exchange, beginning with acquiring stake of LSE’s largest shareholder, Ameriprise Financial’s Threadneedle Asset Management unit. Nasdaq now has 29% in the exchange, will need another 21% to win control.

The LSE has now been cornered to negotiate either a partnership or an eventual merger.However, Nasdaq’s bid has been made more difficult due to British bidding rules, which restricted it’s ability to raise offer except under certain circumstances. According to industry estimates, in the past 18 months, the London Stock Exchange has attracted 152 international companies to its markets.

Over the same period in America, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have attracted a combined 54 international companies. Apart from the stringent Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, London’s principles-based regime, rather than a more prescriptive rules-based approach, is working in its favour.

At a seminar this week, M Damodaran, chairman, Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi), advocated prescriptive rule-based approach over the principles-based regime. He said that integration of regulators at the global level was limited because, “regulation is an expression of sovereignty.” Even though there is greater cooperation and coordination among regulators across geographies, there is not enough room for conceding ground, he had said.

On the back of liberalised foreign investment in Indian stock exchanges, various commercial and legal issues will be examined for allowing a single investor to pick up 5% stake in more than one stock exchange. NYSE and other foreign investors will require Sebi approval for acquiring stake in stock exchanges on an incremental basis. Sebi will take decisions case-by-case based on commercial and legal considerations.

The BSE has already lined up its plans for an initial public offer. It has set itself a deadline of May 2007 to reduce the stake held by brokers by offering 26% to strategic investors and another 25% through an initial public offering. Experts do not rule out Nasdaq’s interest in the BSE. More action awaited on this front. Watch this space.