could be bought ‘on the margin’-This is when the stock broker and the stock holder merge their money to buy stocks, for example, people could buy $1000 worth of stocks for only $100 and borrowed the rest from stockbroker. Buying on the margin became a common practice. People waited for the share prices to go up again and then resold their shares for a profit. It was usually easy to pay back the loan and still make money. The day of the crash: By the summer of 1929 there were 20 million shareholders
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overlooking the flock and watch where the sheep have been and where they’re heading. Be ahead of the crowd, not part of it! Most investors will make several mistakes in 2012. But, by being a contrarian, you have the possibility of gaining long-term wealth by taking a different stance than the crowd. You must be careful not to just do the opposite of what everyone else is doing; rather, make sure you have a well-researched and thorough understanding of the market landscape to understand where opportunities
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Chapter 1: Introduction Security has been a universal desire right from the earliest civilizations. This quest for security has led to the concept of insurance. Insurance is a contract between two parties whereby one party called insurer undertakes, in exchange for a fixed sum called premium to pay the other party an assured sum of money on the occurrence of a certain event. Life insurance protects against the economic loss in the event of death. A family is generally dependent for its food, clothing
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MIDDLE EAST Middle Eastern countries are at various stages of their economic development with a common heritage. In most of the countries oil wealth has played a major role in its development gaining the attraction of the interest of other developed countries. Globalization has become one of the significant factors of its development, thus forcing the countries to alter its economic policies and reforms as well as the accounts standards. (International monetary fund, 2014) http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/med/2003/eng/abed
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rationalized and tax laws have been simplified resulting in better compliance, ease of tax payment and better enforcement. The process of rationalization of tax administration is ongoing in India. Direct Taxes In case of direct taxes (income tax, wealth tax, etc.), the burden directly falls on the taxpayer. Income tax According to Income Tax Act 1961, every person, who is an assessee and whose total income exceeds the maximum exemption limit, shall be chargeable to the income tax at the rate or rates
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Income-Consumption and Income-Saving relationships show income that is disposable in a household and income saved. The economy depends on the flow of income consumption spent, and income saving are non-income determinants, which also consists of wealth and borrowing money. Interest-Rate-Investments relationships show the marginal benefit for the rate of return or profit and the cost of the interest rates, which is profit for borrowing funds. The goal for businesses lending money is for the rate
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Business Economics Contributors: Prof. Dr. S.S Haridas Prof. Bidhan Datta Prof. Kavita Ingale Prof. Neelkanth Athalye Prof. Dr. Manasi Gore Session Plan SR. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Business Economics (102) Topic Thinking like an Economist & Ten Principles of Economics Circular Flow, National Income, Measurement Identities Business cycle, Indian & Global Experience Types of Inflation (Demand Pull & Cost Push) Inflation & Unemployment
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capital (such as digging and ore processing equipment) and land (where the minerals are located). In fact, these two may be more important than what employees carry around in their heads. Evaluate the mining executive’s comments. Although less common, many executives still view land and capital as a company’s most valuable assets. They give lip service to the idea that “People are our most value assets” but still don’t understand that land and capital have little value without people. For instance
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business requires some source of funds to maintain operation and competitive advantages. Whether it’s a manufacturing or servicing firm, it requires financing. Financing sources can be obtained through debt, bond issuance, bank loan, equity, and issuance of preferred and/or common stock. The amount of debt and equity builds the firm's capital structure. The firm's corporate or business strategy is the proportion of capital structure it needs to finance its operation. The combination of debt and
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WHY IS INTEREST PROHIBITED IN ISLAM ? A STATISTICAL JUSTIFICATION. INTRODUCTION According to Sayyid Qutb (1999), “No other issue has been condemned and denounced so strongly in the Holy Qu’ran as interest.” Interest is one kind of fee charged by a lender to borrower for the use of borrowed money, usually expressed as an annual percentage of the principal. The rate depends on time, value of money, the credit, and risk of the borrower and the rate of inflation. Different economists have given different
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