Coca Cola Redesigning Corporate Website

Coca cola has been quenching our thirst for years now. The world, however, is going digital and a prominent website and strong online presence has become must have to gain popularity even for an established company like Coca Cola. The company is revamping its corporate website, adopting a new approach akin to a consumer magazine than a business website as per the press release on 12th November 2012.

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First Day of Samvat 2069

Indian stocks saw profit taking in a special trading session to mark the auspicious occasion of Diwali on Tuesday. The Sensex closed 51 points or 0.3 per cent lower at 18,619 while the broader Nifty ended 17 points down at 5,667. The 75-minute Muhurat Trading Session was conducted to pay obeisance to Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. It also marks the New Year for traders as per the Hindu calendar, or Samvat 2069.

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India Might Be The First BRIC Nation To Loose Investment Grade; Warns S & P

Slowing GDP growth and political roadblocks to economic policy making are just some of the factors pushing up the risk that India (unsolicited BBB-/Negative/A-3) could lose its investment-grade rating. That's according to a recently released report by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, titled "Will India Be The First BRIC Fallen Angel?" The report states that the Indian government's reaction to potentially slower growth and greater vulnerability to economic shocks could largely determine whether the country can maintain an investment-grade rating or become the first "fallen angel" among the BRIC nations.

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1000 Crores Withdrawn in 8 Days from Indian Market

Foreign investors (FII) have withdrawn out over Rs 1,000 crore in the first eight days of trading this month from Indian stock market amid concerns over domestic economic growth and depreciating rupee. During June 1 to 8, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) made gross purchase of equities worth Rs 16,954.10 crore and sold shares valued at Rs 18,021 crore, translating into a net outflow of Rs 1,067 crore, according to the data available with the market regulator Sebi.

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What is Nifty BeES?

Nifty BeES is the first Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in India. It is an combination of a share and a mutual fund unit. It allows you to trade Real-time on NSE and gives you Real-time Indicative NAV. With Nifty BeES you can tracks the S&P CNX Nifty Index. Nifty BeES is priced at 1/10th of the Nifty Index and the Investment management fee is 0.35% and the total expense ratio is 0.80% per annum, probably the lowest in India. It structures as a Mutual Fund under the SEBI 1996 regulations.

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India's GDP Numbers in Past Five Financial Years

Most of the factors that led to India's growth slowdown have bottomed out, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement on Thursday, after the March quarter GDP numbers were released. "Among the factors that have contributed to the slowdown are the tight monetary policy that led to a significant rise in interest costs and the weak global sentiments that affected growth in domestic private investment...have bottomed out," Mukherjee said.

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SEBI's Listing Norms For Stock Exchanges

SEBI's listing norms for exchanges comes as a relief for the BSE and NSE. SEBI sat on the Bimal Jalan report for over 16 months and probably the listing of MCS finally prompted it to wake up. Some of the biggest stock exchanges in the world -NYSE-Euronext, Australian Securities Exchange, London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Bourse are listed. Finally, the much awaited norms on listing of the bourses on bourses was spelled out by SEBI. A quic look at what the rules of the game are:

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Difficult Time For Facebook?

As reported by major media and newspapers, Yahoo has filed a complaint against Facebook stating that Facebook has violated 10 patents, in the US District Court in San Jose. Yahoo says that it has innovated the technology of messaging, news feed generation, social commenting advertising display, preventing fraud clicks and privacy controls. Yahoo also states that “Facebook’s entire social network model, which allows users to create profiles for and connect with, among other things, persons and businesses, is based on Yahoo’s patented social networking technology.”

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Bio-diesel Industry

The concept of Bio-diesel dates back to 1885 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel built the first diesel engine with the full intention of running it on vegetative source. He first displayed his engine at the Paris show of 1900 and astounded everyone when he ran the patented engine on any hydrocarbon fuel available which included gasoline and peanut oil. Scientists discovered that the viscosity (thickness) of vegetable oils could be reduced in a simple chemical process and that it could work well as diesel fuel in modern engine. This fuel is called Bio-diesel.

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