Monday, November 27, 2006

Telly talismans to better health? ‘Remote’ are the possibilities!

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Couch potatoes inclined to shopping at the flick of a button would do well to rechristen themselves ‘ouch’ potatoes instead. That’s because they can’t lounge around and say “sofa, so good” any more. After all, the digital life is by no means entirely the good life, as shopaholics punch drunk on the prospect of lapping up products offering grandiose promises of fitness via the idiot box have discovered, much to their chagrin.

The buzz of snaring a bargain buy at reduced prices from teleshopping channels is only a pyrrhic victory, for customers egged on by their illusion (or delusion, if you would!) find themselves dealing with more than they hankered for. Take, for instance, an abdominal belt peddled by a ubiquitous network that (supposedly) helps you whip that beer belly into shape. But actually, besides helping you burn (an infinitesimal amount of) calories, it also sears a crater into the wallet and, at times, into unsuspecting victims themselves. These wanton weapons of mass (know pun intended!) mayhem have kindred souls in other creative contraptions such as a sauna belt (say what?!), a stationary morning walker(!) and a magnetic eye patch (the marvels of modern technology... Einstein would be proud!)

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Monday, November 13, 2006

TN can’t afford Karunanidhi’s ludicrous freebie offers to voters

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People sneered at DMK leader M. Karunanidhi’s promise of a colour television for every below poverty line (BPL) family during the Tamil Nadu assembly elections. Karunanidhi won handsomely, became the Chief Minister, started distributing TVs and making more promises. It sounded ridiculous! Why should somebody, who has just been voted as the Chief Minister, make further promises like free LPG connections, two acres land free and rice at Rs.2 per kg to all BPL families? Actually, we shouldn’t even have asked the question... the local elections were round the corner, and the ruling DMK-PMK alliance, quite expectedly, landed with a bigger victory against the duo of Jayalalitha and her foe-turned friend, Vaiko.

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

The merger of CME and CBOT creates compelling synergies for shareholders and futures traders

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They were like estranged brothers, like opposite banks of a river that would never meet. Not surprisingly though, there was a feeling among their stakeholders that Chicago Board Of Trade (CBOT) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) – Chicago’s legacy commodity exchanges that have symbolized tremendous riches and misfortune to Chicago residents – were only delaying the inevitable. And the inevitable happened on October 17, when CBOT was taken over by CME for a whopping $8 billion to form the CME Group Inc. CBOT shareholders get 0.3006 CME shares per share of CBOT. Post merger, the CME Group, a $25 billion entity, will be the world’s largest commodity exchange in terms of market capitalization and the largest derivatives exchange with a combined volume of 1,444 million (2005 figures) futures contracts.

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

B&E this fortnight

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Though Sony executives apologised for the inconvenience caused due to the shameful mass-scale battery recall, the company also made it very clear that no one would resign from amongst the top management of the company with an added assurance that all possible measures have been taken to rectify the problem. The faulty batch of laptop batteries, manufactured between August 2003 and February 2006, are being recalled worldwide after reports of some laptops using the Sony battery packs overheating and bursting into flames came to surface. Declining bottom-line has already weakened CEO Howard Stringer’s plan to rebuild the brand’s iconic status, and such incidents only help but tarnish it to the point of no repair!

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Commodities, which looked more than promising, are facing hard times; but things may not remain the same

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One might argue that with Dow Jones Industrial Index testing its all time high, Amaranth – which fell prey to it’s over exposure in commodities – should have done a better job. But then, wasn’t everybody gung ho about commodities? Wasn’t the Chinese boom supposed to last a bit longer? Wasn’t gold supposed to embellish portfolios for years to come? Well, of late, and to the surprise of many, the commodity juggernaut has slipped off its axis and has sparked doubts over the sustainability of commodities.

The Reuters/Jefferies CRB (Commodities Research Bureau) Index, one of the most credible commodity indexes, changed its course and sank through the up-trend line for the first time since this Bull Run took off almost half a decade back. The total returns for Reuters/Jeffries CRB Index (see chart) has taken a nosedive, contrary to what we have seen in recent past. Commodity prices are now 15% off their highs and are trading 5% below the last year levels.

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