30 May 2012Personal Finance

Kelly Brook flattered by indecent proposal

eyes on her: Kelly Brook at the premiere of Killing them Softly in Cannes. Picture: AFPKELLY Brook claims she was offered one million euros to spend the night with a French businessman."I tried to find him, I don’t know where he went! I was like, ‘I’ll be five minutes, I'm just doing a photo call.'"You have so many people down there doing crazy things like that, like little PR stunts, or they’re making...

Source : perthnow | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

ArtsBeat: High-Priced Tickets Help Make for a Record Year at the Broadway Box Office : The New York Times

I have 1 million in 33 funds is that too many : cnn

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Moneycontrol

Power Grid plans 20k cr capex, to expand overseas

Power Grid Corporation of India has earmarked Rs 20,000 crore capex for financial year 2013 of which 80% would be via debt and the remaining would be through equity. The state-run power transmission company has plans to expand in global geographies...

Source : Moneycontrol | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

The CarWale Daily Fuel – May 29, 2012 : Carwale

GMR Infra posts Rs 366 crore loss revenue drops 3 : Ndtv

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Ndtv

Fortis Healthcare consolidated Q4 profit rises 41.34 percent

Fortis Healthcare one the leading chain of Hospitals in the country, has reported a growth of 41.34 percent in consolidated net profit to Rs 41.54 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 as compared to Rs 29.39 crore in the same period last year.During the quarter, the consolidated total income rpse by 3.06 times to Rs 1388 crore from Rs 453 crore in the same quarter last year.Consolidated Operating...

Source : Newkerala | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

8 detained for trying to stop demolition

Eight people, including social activist Medha Patkar, were detained fromfor trying to stop bulldozers from demolishing a chawl to make way for a Slum Rehabilitation Authority project.had not issued an eviction notice and had no permission to carry out the demolition.Assistant municipal commissioner (F north ward) Sanjay Kurhade said, "The BMC had issued 80 eviction notices. The residents had appealed...

Source : Times Of India | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

Boom chasers: Next stop, Kansas : cnn

Personal Finance Daily: How to switch your elite status to another airline

Jennifer Waters writes today in her Consumer Confidential column about little-known programs airlines have if you want to switch your elite-flier status to a different carrier. It’s not easy, but it can be negotiated. Is your airline giving you the customer-loyalty recognition you deserve?Also on MarketWatch today, columnist Matthew Lynn outlines why he thinks Spain would be the first to exit the ...

Source : Marketwatch | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

Robert Powell's Your Portfolio: Moves to make if the U.S. gets downgraded again

BOSTON (MarketWatch)—The rating agencies have put the U.S. on notice, as Forrest Gump might say, again: Come up with a credible plan to deal with the budget deficit or face yet another downgrade. And that warning has investors wondering what, if any, moves to make with their money should Uncle Sam’s credit rating get dinged—again.We’ve been down this road before. A little less than a year ago the rating...

Source : Marketwatch | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

Allure of hot tech sector rekindles

the end of 2000, Americans had ended their love affairs with a lot of fads. The “Whassup?” beer ads, the singing Big Mouth Billy Bass, colored ketchup—all were loved, then quickly forgotten.But even after the tech bubble burst disappointed countless investors, one never got the sense that Americans ever fell completely out of love with technology stocks. So perhaps it’s not surprising that after nearly...

Source : Marketwatch | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

Mingle Box

Lanco Infratech profit down 39%

Rs4,442.2 crore of revenue during the quarter, a jump of 43% from Rs3,101.8 crore a year earlierChennai: India’s largest independent power producer Lanco Infratech Ltd on Wednesday reported a 39% drop in consolidated net profit after adjustment for the quarter ended 31 March on account of higher interest costs and lower capacity utilisation. Lanco posted Rs161.3 crore of net profit after adjustment,...

Source : Ndtv | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

Ndtv

M&M Q4 net up 44 pc, beats forecast

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, India's biggest utility vehicles maker, reported a forecast-beating 44 percent jump in quarterly profit, helped by an exceptional gain and strong volume growth in the face of rising input costs.Mahindra, which controls over 40 percent of India's tractor market, the world's largest, said slowing economic growth in Asia's third-largest economy and escalating global risks meant...

Source : IBNLive | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

Protectors of individual investors

Meet four advocates, including former CFTC chairperson Brooksley Born, who have worked to protect investors and the financial system from misconduct.Well before things got ugly, Born saw the risks of complex Wall Street bets known as derivatives.As head of the CFTC in the 1990s, Born, a former corporate lawyer, argued that they needed to be regulated. Alas, she was shouted down by others in the Clinton...

Source : cnn | 356 Day(s) AgoCategory : Personal Finance

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