Archive for the ‘slide’ Category

Invest partly in equities

March 15th, 2009 No Commented

Categorized Under: Finance, slide

There is a old saying , do not put all eggs in one basket. That holds good for planning your investments. Part of your money should be put into real estate, partly in gold, partly in equities. Equities are definitely to be invested with a long term view and never with a short term view. [...]

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US deficit funding to vanish

March 14th, 2009 No Commented

Categorized Under: Economy, slide

The US deficit running to billions of dollars have so far been funded by trade surplus countries like China and Japan and other OPEC and Asian countries. With the current economic crisis striking at the heart of every country, most of these countries are seeing their trade surpluses vanishing and are therefore unlikely to continue [...]

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Sri Lankan cricketers reach home

March 4th, 2009 No Commented

Categorized Under: slide

Horror is reflected in the faces and speeches of every Sri Lankan cricketer who were facing the threat of disaster yesterday in the hands of heavily armed terrorists in the heart of Pakistan. They reached their home land yesterday night and are yet to come out of the terror strike. They expressed their thanks to [...]

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Baltic Index crashes by 90%

January 1st, 2009 No Commented

Categorized Under: General, slide

The Baltic freight index, which is the barometer for high seas shipping freight rates, hit a record high in the early part of 2008. But ever since the second quarter of 2008 the index has been falling slowly and steadily due to reduced demand for sea freight. The sharp drop in import of coal and [...]

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Spend time with your family every day

September 10th, 2008 No Commented

Categorized Under: Family, slide

It is not enough that you earn millions of dollars for your wife and your children. It is worth even sacrificing part of such earnings, and spending the time instead with your family. While money is definitely required, what we actually end up ignoring is the need to keep the personal touch with each of [...]

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