Nokia’s trajectory has been going downhill from the peak reached when Motorola nearly self destructed. Now it looks that Nokia is following the same path as the other old mobile handset makers like Siemens,Sony Ericsson,Motorola and others.Though it still commands an impressive 36% marketshare of the world mobile market,that has been steadily coming down.More importantly […]
While Indian Stock Markets have progressed a lot in terms of disclosure and regulation with market regulator SEBI introducing numerous reforms in the last decade or so ,there is a long way to go to achieve the standards of information disclosure and corporate governance seen in the developed markets. Investing in a mid cap and […]
Recent newsflow from China suggest that the country’s real estate market is poised for a sharp slowdown and the heavily controlled financial sector is sitting on huge piles of NPAs which are as yet undeclared.While I don’t think a crash will happen in China , I feel more certain that the stellar growth in China […]
The growth in income disparity around the world is striking.The internationalization of capital and trade has led to increasing amounts of income for the top percentiles of the world population while the bottom percentiles share of income continues to decline.This has not only been happening in developing countries like Russia,India ,Egypt but also in some […]
The Indian stock market has been hit with low quality offerings over the recent past with improvement in the general market conditions.I was wondering whether the advent of such issues was a sign of a market top.Looks like it might have been with this IPO Failure and the European Debt troubles. “Tara Health Foods” failed […]
As I was writing in my earlier post , consolidation in the technology market is creating Technology Behemoths competing in large parts of the technology spectrum.Microsoft is entering the smartphone market with Kin to counter its prime competitor Google which recently launched the NexusOne. It will also go head to head with Apple another one […]