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Union Cabinet Clears Presidents rule in Arunachal Pradesh The Union cabinet headed by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has recommended imposition of Presidents Rule in Arunachal Pradesh
under Article 356 (1) of the Constitution as they feel that the State is heading for a breakdown.
Key facts
Union Government took this decision after state assembly failed to comply with the
provisions of Article 174 (sessions of the state legislature, prorogation and dissolution) of
the Constitution.
As per the provisions of Article 174, the session of state assembly was to be held in 21st
January 2016, six months after the last sitting. But the state assembly failed to comply with
this provision which may led to constitutional breakdown
The political crisis in the north eastern hill state began in December 2015 after 21 out of 47 ruling
Congress legislators in the 60-member house rebelled along with 11 BJP and 2 independent
legislators and extended support to KalikhoPul to form new government. Arunachal Pradesh
Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa also had advanced the date of the convening of the assembly
session in order check the majority of ruling government in the assembly.
All you need to know about Presidents rule in Arunachal Pradesh,
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Politics, impropriety and Presidents Rule
Government Initiatives: Smart Cities
The objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to
its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of 'Smart' Solutions. The focus is
on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable
model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities.
First list of 20 smart cities includes: Bhubaneshwar, Pune, Jaipur, Surat, Kochi, Ahmedabad,
Jabalpur, Vishakhapatnam, Solapur, Dhawangiri, Indore, NDMC, Coimbatore, Udaipur,
Guwahati, Chennai, Ludhiana, Bhopal, Kakinada, Belgaum.
What is a 'smart city' and how it will work
The upsides and downsides of smart cities
Net Neutrality & Free Basics
Salient Features of Net Neutrality
Equal and unrestricted access to all lawful sites.
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Same speed of access for all subscribers of all apps and websites at the level of telecom/ ISP.
Non-discriminatory data cost per KB/MB for access to every site.
No censorship or selective access to any information available on the net.
No preferential treatment for any particular website in terms of speeding up its access, or
making some sites free over others.
Consequences of not having net neutrality:
Telecom operators might discriminate against certain types of content and political opinions.
Cartel of telecom operators may degrade traditional internet access to force apps and
content providers to use the telecom operators new "premium" services.
Telecom operators may compete for contents by charging different fees for different
content providers (e.g. Google, Flip kart, etc.), which will result in certain content being
available only with certain telecom operators, causing fragmentation of the internet.
The ability of smaller and start-up Apps to compete with established Apps may be
adversely affected and may deter start-ups from joining the market.
Facebooks Internet.org was rechristened as Free Basics in September 2015, with the aim
to provide an open platform for Indian developers the opportunity to make their services
& websites available free of cost to those who cannot afford internet access. But how
open is it if Facebook restricts access to only partner website and applications. This
violates the basic principles of net neutrality.
An Introduction to Net Neutrality: What It Is, What It Means for You, and What You Can
Do About It,
The Pros and Cons of Net Neutrality,
10 things to know about Facebook's Free Basics, net neutrality
Union Cabinet approves amendments of Power Tariff Policy 2006 to promote clean energy
The comprehensive amendments bring required changes for holistic view of the power sector and
also to achieve the objectives of Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) with the focus on 4
Es. These 4 Es are: Electricity for all; Environment for a sustainable future; Efficiency to ensure
affordable tariffs; Ensure financial viability and Ease of doing business to attract investments.
Key Highlights:
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Electricity: 24X7 power supply, Micro Grids will provide power to remote unconnected
villages, People near coal mines will be provided power from coal washery reject based
plants.
Efficiency: Reduction in power cost through expansion of existing power plants, sharing
of benefit from sale of un-requisitioned power; competitive bidding to be used for
transmission projects.
Environment: promotion of Renewable Power Obligation (RPO), Renewable Generation
Obligation (RGO); 100% power procurement produced from Waste-to-Energy plants in
order to give big boost to Swachh Bharat Mission.
Ease of Doing Business: Investments will be encouraged in coal rich states like West Bengal,
Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to generate employment.
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India, China leading in renewable energy initiatives
CCEA approves 5000 MW of Grid-connected Solar PV Power Projects
The projects will be set up in four trenches during four succeeding financial years and implemented
by Solar Power Developers with Viability Gap Funding under Jawahar Lal Nehru National Solar
Mission (JNNSM). These projects will generate employment to 30,000 people and help in reduction
of more than 8 Million tonne of CO2 emissions into environment every year.
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM): launched in 2010 by the Union Government
with a target to setup 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022. Later in 2014, the target
was enhanced up to 1,00,000 MW
World Affairs
Europes Migrant crisis
The EU is currently facing its worse migrant crisis since WW2. Wars in Iraq and Syria, unrest in
Africa, and chaos in Libya have spurred an exodus of refugees. In 2015, more than 1 million
refugees arrived in Europe by boat, rail or road, fleeing violence, persecution and poverty. Some
countries (including Hungary, Macedonia, and Slovenia) have built razor-wire fences on their
borders to curb thousands of migrants from entering.
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Zika Virus
India and France Agreements
Bank of japan - negative interest rates
Start up India , Stand up India
SpaceX Lands Rocket Successfully Makes Reuse Possible
U.N. Passes Resolution on Syria Peace Process
US first rate hike since 2008
Climate Change Deal Reached by about 200 Countries
Paris terrorist attack, hundreds dead
Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai
TPP trade deal reached by 12 pacific rim countries
Russia intervenes Syria civil war
Flowing liquid water found on Mars
Mecca Hajj stampede, hundreds dead
Volkswagen emission scandal
Migrant crisis of Europe
Microsoft introduces Windows 10
Iran Nuclear Deal Reach
Greece Vote NO to Bailout Deal
Earthquake 7.9 Magnitude hits Nepal
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Opportunity Cost- Economics deals with choosing one alternative among various
alternatives. The decision process begins with ranking all alternatives on priority basis, and
then choosing the alternative which is on the top of the priority list. This choice implies
sacrifice of other alternatives; hence cost of this choice will be evaluated in terms of the
sacrificed alternatives. The cost of this choice is the benefit of the next best alternative
foregone. This is called opportunity cost. Therefore, opportunity cost is the highest valued
benefit that must be sacrificed as a result of choosing alternative.
Microeconomics is the study of individual consumers and producers in specific markets. It
involves the determination of price through the optimizing behavior of economic agents,
with consumers maximizing utility and firms maximizing profits. Thus Microeconomics
seeks to answer questions related to supply & demand, pricing of output, production
process, cost structure and distribution of income & output.
Law of demand:Other things remaining the same, there is an inverse
relationship between
price and quantity demanded. The amount of a
good that buyers purchase at a higher price is less because as the price of a good
goes up, so does the opportunity cost of buying that good. As a result, people
will naturally avoid buying a product that will force them to forgo the
consumption of something else they value more.
Law of Supply: It basically establishes the relationship between
the supply of a product and its price. It states that Supply of a
particular product is directly proportional to its price keeping other
factors constant. Producers supply more at a higher price because
selling a higher quantity at higher price increases revenue.
Equilibrium refers to a situation in which the price has reached the level where the quantity
supplied equals the quantity demanded. As you can see on the chart, equilibrium price and
quantity are determined by the intersection of demand & supply curves. At this point, the
price of the goods will be p* and the quantity will
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be q*. These figures are referred to as equilibrium price and quantity. Consumers can
purchase all they want & producers can sell all they want at the market-clearing price i.e.
p*.
Macroeconomics is the study of the aggregate economy. It addresses many topical issues
like: Why does the cost of living keep rising? Why are millions of people unemployed, even
when the economy is booming? What causes recession? More specifically it is a study of
national economies and the determination of national income.
Gross Domestic Product: The monetary value of all the finished
goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific
time period, though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis. GDP
is commonly used as an indicator of the economic health of a country,
as well as to gauge a country's standard of living. Critics of using GDP
as an economic measure say the statistic does not take into account
the underground economy - transactions that, for whatever reason,
are not reported to the government. Others say that GDP is not
intended to gauge material well-being, but serves as a measure of a
nation's productivity, which is unrelated.
A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economies to estimate
total economic activity in a country or region. They are the product (or output) approach,
the income approach, and the expenditure approach.
The expenditure method:
GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports imports),
or
GDP = C + I + G + (X M)
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Goods and services (G) is the next largest component of government purchases.
Investment spending (I) includes business spending that will improve the ability to
produce in the future
Net exports (NX) component is equal to exports (goods and services purchased by foreigners)
minus imports (goods and services purchased by domestic residents).
Net factor payments (NFP) are the net amount of payments that an economy pays to
foreigners for inputs used in producing goods and services, less money the economy receives
for selling the same factors of production.
GNP Vs. GDP
GNP is the final value of goods and services produced by domestically-owned means of
production (using domestic labor and resources); GDP is the final value of goods and services
produced within a given country's border. Part of GNP, therefore, is earned overseas, while
some domestic production is added to GDP only.
Example involves U.S. Company Intel which manufactures silicon chips in Ireland. The
production from that facility is added to U.S. GNP, but not U.S. GDP. When U.S. residents earn
more abroad than foreigners earn in the U.S., GNP exceeds GDP and vice versa.
Purchasing Power Parity Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of long-term
equilibrium exchange rates based on relative price levels of two countries. The concept is
founded on the law of one price, the idea that identical goods should (under certain
conditions) sell for the same price in two different countries at the same time. The absolute
PPP exchange rate equates the national price levels in two countries if expressed in a
common currency at that rate, so that the purchasing power of one unit of a currency would
be the same in the two countries. Relative PPP focuses on changes in the price levels and the
exchange rate, rather than the level.
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central banks long-term outlook on interest rates. If the bank rate moves up, long-term interest
rates also tend to move up, and vice-versa. Banks make
a profit by borrowing at a lower rate and lending the same funds at a higher rate of interest. If
the RBI hikes the bank rate (this is currently 6 per cent), the interest that a bank pays for
borrowing money (banks borrow money either from each other or from the RBI) increases. It,
in turn, hikes its own lending rates to ensure it continues to make a profit.
Repo Rate A repurchase agreement, also known as a repo, RP, or sale and repurchase
agreement, is the sale of securities together with an agreement for the seller to buy back the
securities at a later
date. The repurchase price should be greater than the original sale price, the difference
effectively representing interest, sometimes called the repo rate. The party that originally
buys the securities effectively acts as a lender. The original seller is effectively acting as a
borrower, using their security as collateral for a secured cash loan at a fixed rate of interest
Reverse Repo RateThe rate at which RBI borrows money from the banks (or banks lend
money to the RBI) is termed the reverse repo rate. Reverse repo rate signifies the rate at
which the central bank absorbs liquidity from the banks, while repo signifies the rate at which
liquidity is injected. The RBI uses this tool when it feels there is too much money floating in
the banking system. If the reverse repo rate is increased, it means the RBI will borrow money
from the bank and offer them a lucrative rate of interest. As a result, banks would prefer to
keep their money with the RBI (which is absolutely risk free) instead of lending it out (this
option comes with a certain amount of risk). Consequently, banks would have lesser funds to
lend to their customers. This helps stem the flow of excess money into the economy.
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) The portion (expressed as a percent) of depositors' balances
banks must have on hand as cash. This is a requirement determined by the country's central
bank, which in the U.S. is the Federal Reserve and in India is reserve bank. The reserve ratio
affects the money supply in a country.
For example, if the reserve ratio in the U.S. is determined by the Fed to be 11%, this means
all banks must have 11% of their depositors money on reserve in the bank. So, if a bank has
deposits of $1 billion, it is required to have $110 million on reserve.
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Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) SLR indicates the minimum percentage of deposits that
the bank has to maintain in the form of gold, cash or other approved securities like treasury
bills. It regulates the credit growth in India.
The RBI reviews these rates and ratios on a monthly basis with intent to keep a check on
money supply and inflation rate in economy. In order to increase the supply of money in
economy RBI may decrease its policy rates and reserve ratios. The decrease will have the
combined effect of increasing the deposits available with the commercial banks which may be
offered as loans to general public thereby pumping more money into the economy.
Exchange rate regimes
The manner in which a country manages its exchange rate with other currencies in the world
is called as the exchange rate regime. There are many types of exchange rate regimes like
Fixed, Floating and Pegged float. Fixed exchange rate regime was prevalent before the 1970s
when there was a direct convertibility between different currencies of the world that is the
exchange rate is fixed in this regime. In a floating exchange rate, the market dictates
movements in the exchange rate. In pegged float, the central bank keeps the rate from
deviating too far from a target band or value, via policy actions. If the rate moves outside the
band, the central bank would intervene in the market by buying or selling the currency to
bring the rate back to the pegged value.
Inflation- Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an
economy over a period of time. Consequently, inflation also reflects erosion in the
purchasing power of money a loss of real value in the internal medium of exchange and
unit of account in the economy.
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The consumer price index (CPI) is the best know indicator of inflation. In India, Food Inflation is a
significant indicator since food expense is the major expense for most of the people in India.
The quantity theory of money is widely accepted as an accurate model of inflation in the
long run. Consequently, there is now broad agreement among economists that in the long
run, the inflation rate is essentially dependent on the growth rate of money supply.
However, in the short and medium term inflation may be affected by supply and demand
pressures in the economy, and influenced by the relative elasticity of wages, prices and
interest rates.
Today, most mainstream economists favor a low, steady rate of inflation. Low (as opposed to
zero or negative) inflation may reduce the severity of economic recessions by enabling the
labor market to adjust more quickly in a downturn, and reduce the risk that a liquidity trap
prevents monetary policy from stabilizing the economy.
Central bank (RBI in India) has the role to encourage growth and control inflation. RBIs
desired level of inflation is 4-5 %, above which it becomes hawkish to check inflation.
Severe form of Inflation is called hyperinflation.
Currently, Indias Consumer price index is 9%, Wholesale Price Index is 8.5%, and Food
Inflation is 10% approximately.
Deflation Deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. Deflation
occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0% (a negative inflation rate). Inflation reduces
the real value of money over time; conversely, deflation increases the real value of money
the currency of a national or regional economy. This allows one to buy more goods with the
same amount of money over time. Deflation is correlated with depressions.
Deflation results in a lower level of demand in the economy due to lower production
capability requirements of industry and this further leads to increased unemployment.
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A deflationary spiral is a situation where decreases in price lead to lower production, which
in turn leads to lower wages and demand, which leads to further decreases in price. Since
reductions in general price level are called deflation, a deflationary spiral is when reductions
in price lead to a vicious circle, where a problem exacerbates its own cause. The Great
Depression was regarded by some as a deflationary spiral. Japan is struggling with deflation
since late
1980s where the prices are constantly decreasing.
Stagflation Stagflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high and the economic
growth rate is low. Stagflation can happen due to two reasons. First, stagflation can result
when the productive capacity of an economy is reduced by an unfavorable supply shock, such
as an increase in the price of oil for an oil importing country. Such an unfavorable supply
shock tends to raise prices at the same time that it slows the economy by making production
more costly and less profitable. Second, both stagnation and inflation can result from
inappropriate macroeconomic policies. For example, central banks can cause inflation by
permitting excessive growth of the money supply, and the government can cause stagnation
by excessive regulation of goods markets and labor markets. Either of these factors can cause
stagflation. Both types of explanations are offered in the US stagflation of the 1970s: it began
with a huge rise in oil prices, but then continued as central banks used excessively simulative
monetary policy to counteract the resulting recession, causing a runaway wage-price spiral.
FDI & FII
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) refers to the investment by foreign investors in projects in
the country. This type of investment is more involved with the management, technology
transfer and other field expertise and knowhow in the project. FII refers to Foreign
Institutional Investors. These investors invest in the country indirectly by purchasing stocks
of the companies listed on the stock exchanges. The FII money inflows or outflows are also
called hot money flows.
Types of industry
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Monopoly - It exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a
particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other
individuals shall have access to it. Monopolies are thus characterized by the ability of a firm
to raise price without losing all its sales. Monopolies often arise as a result of barriers to
entry.
For Example, Indian Railway has monopoly in serving passengers through train as no
other player exists.
Perfect Competition It describes markets such that no participants are large enough to
have the market power to set the price of a homogeneous product. A perfectly competitive
market has the following characteristics like there are many buyers & sellers in the market,
the goods offered by the various sellers are largely the same and firms can freely enter or exit
the market. A competitive market has many buyers and sellers trading identical products so
that each buyer and seller is a price taker. Buyers and sellers must accept the price
determined by the market. Perfect competition serves as a benchmark against which to
measure real-life and imperfectly competitive markets.
Oligopoly - An oligopoly is a market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a
small number of sellers. It is characterized by only a few sellers, each offering a similar or
identical product to the others. Because of the few sellers, the key feature of oligopoly is the
issue between cooperation and self-interest. At least some firm have large market shares and
thus can influence the price of the product.
Example: - Indian Petroleum Industries which is dominated by few players like HPCL, BPCL,
IOCL etc. and the decisions of the one influences the decision of the others.
Financial Markets
Difference and demarcation between money market and capital market is made on the basis
of maturity period of instruments and claims.
Capital Market deals with longer maturity financial assets and claims. Capital market
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public sector bonds and units of mutual funds. In case of capital market even a small individual
investor can deal by sale/purchase of shares, debentures or mutual fund units.
Examples: Governments issue Treasury Bonds in the Bond Market, Company through its
IPO, taps the investing public for capital and is therefore using the capital markets
The capital market includes the stock market (equity securities) and the bond market (debt).
In primary markets, new stock or bond issues are sold to investors via a mechanism known
as underwriting.
In the secondary markets, existing securities are sold and bought among investors or
traders, usually on a securities exchange, over-the-counter, or elsewhere.
Money Market - Short-term instruments maturing within a period of one year are traded in
money market such as inter-corporate deposits, certificate of deposits, treasury bonds,
commercial papers, commercial bills, etc. Money market is a wholesale market and the
participants in money market are large institutional investors, commercial banks, mutual
funds, and corporate bodies.
Money market consists of a number of sub-markets:
Acceptance market
institutions, and credit unions. Certificate of Deposit - Time deposits, commonly offered to
consumers by banks, thrift
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Repurchase Agreements - Short-term loans - normally for less than two weeks and frequently
for one day - arranged by selling securities to an investor with an agreement to repurchase
them at a fixed price on a fixed date.
Treasury Bills - Short-term debt obligations of a national government that are issued to
mature in three to twelve months.
Bankers Acceptance - is a short term credit investment created by a non-financial firm.
Commercial Paper - Unsecured promissory notes with a fixed maturity of one to 270
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are used by companies, municipalities, states and U.S. and foreign governments to finance a
variety of projects and activities. Bonds are commonly referred to as fixed-income securities and
are one of the three main asset classes, along with stocks and cash equivalents.
Derivatives:
The term Derivative stands for a contract whose price is derived from or is dependent upon
an underlying asset. The underlying asset could be a financial asset such as currency, stock
and market index, an interest bearing security or a physical commodity. Today, around the
world, derivative contracts are traded on electricity, weather, temperature and even
volatility.
Types of Derivative Contracts
Derivatives comprise four basic contracts namely Forwards, Futures, Options and Swaps.
Over the past couple of decades several exotic contracts have also emerged but these are
largely the variants of these basic contracts. Let us briefly define some of the contracts.
Forward Contracts: These are promises to deliver an asset at a pre- determined date in future
at a predetermined price. Forwards are highly popular on currencies and interest rates. The
contracts are traded over the counter (i.e. outside the stock exchanges, directly between the
two parties) and are customized according to the needs of the parties. Since these contracts
do not fall under the purview of rules and regulations of an exchange, they generally suffer
from counterparty risk i.e. the risk that one of the parties to the contract may not fulfill his or
her obligation.
Futures Contracts: A futures contract is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset
at a certain time in future at a certain price. These are basically exchange traded, standardized
contracts. The exchange stands guarantee to all transactions and counterparty risk is largely
eliminated. The buyers of futures contracts are considered having a long position whereas the
sellers are considered to be having a short position. It should be noted that this is similar to any
asset market where anybody who buys is long and the one who sells in short. Futures
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contracts are available on variety of commodities, currencies, interest rates, stocks and other
tradable assets. They are highly popular on stock indices, interest rates and foreign exchange.
Options: It gives the buyer (holder) a right but not an obligation to buy or sell an asset in future.
Options are of two types - calls and puts. Calls give the buyer the right but not the obligation to
buy a given quantity of the underlying asset, at a given price on or before a given future date.
Puts give the buyer the right, but not the obligation to sell a given quantity of the underlying
asset at a given price on or before a given date. One can buy and sell each of the contracts.
When one buys an option he is said to be having a long position and when one sells he is said
to be having a short position. It should be noted that, in the first two types of derivative
contracts (forwards and futures) both the parties (buyer and seller) have an obligation; i.e.
the buyer needs to pay for the asset to the seller and the seller needs to deliver the asset to
the buyer on the settlement date. In case of options only the seller (also called option writer)
is under an obligation and not the buyer (also called option purchaser). The buyer has a right
to buy (call options) or sell (put options) the asset from / to the seller of the option but he
may or may not exercise this right.
In case the buyer of the option does exercise his right, the seller of the option must fulfill
whatever is his obligation (for a call option the seller has to deliver the asset to the buyer of
the option and for a put option the seller has to receive the asset from the buyer of the
option). An option can be exercised at the expiry of the contract period (which is known as
European option contract) or anytime up to the expiry of the contract period (termed as
American option contract).
Swaps: Swaps are private agreements between two parties to exchange cash flows in the
future according to a prearranged formula. They can be regarded as portfolios of forward
contracts. The two commonly used swaps are:
Interest rate swaps: These entail swapping only the interest related cash flows
between the parties in the same currency.
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Currency swaps: These entail swapping both principal and interest between the
parties, with the cash flows in one direction being in a different currency than those in the
opposite direction. Types of Traders in the Derivatives Markets
Hedgers trade with an objective to minimize the risk in trading or holding the
underlying securities. Hedgers willingly bear some costs in order to achieve protection
against unfavorable price changes.
Speculators use derivatives to bet on the future direction of the markets. They take
calculated risks but the objective is to gain when the prices move as per their
expectation.
Arbitrageurs try to make risk-less profit by simultaneously entering into transactions
in two or more markets or two or more contracts. They profit from market
inefficiencies by making simultaneous trades that offset each other thereby making
their positions risk-free.
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When a company floats its second or third public offering, its called FPOs or Follow-on Public
Offers.
FII or Foreign Institutional Investors: FIIs are funds that are active in both primary and
secondary markets, invest in stocks and aim at reaping short-term profits. Though they
bring foreign currency, the flight of the capital is sudden, at times leading to currency and
monetary fluctuations. FIIs are heavily involved in speculative practices like futures trade
and short selling. They indulge in heavy trading in times of crisis making the situation very
volatile. Still, FIIs push up the stock prices, enhance national reputation, increase the
investment profits of stock players, strengthen the stock exchange and generally increase
the brand value of the region.
Venture Capital It is the money available to a risky project. Financier is convinced of the
idea, its blue print, viability and execution. The financier is only involved in investing heavily.
Any management personnel, entrepreneur, individual or a small company can get funds
through a venture capitalist and start his/her project. The IT boom has been powered by
venture capital.
Hedge Funds Hedge funds are investment pools of some of the uber-rich or very high net
worth individuals across the wealth. The hedge funds have a certain tendency to aggressively
invest and usually their returns are typically higher than any other form of investment. Hedge
funds had initially reaped high returns in the US realty boom. They have been accused of
short selling. Much of their strategies remain secret. They operate high risk markets. Hedge
funds have this ability to return profits in both the bear and bull hugs.
Short selling The selling of a security that the seller does not own, or any sale that is
completed by the delivery of a security borrowed by the seller. Short sellers assume that they
will be able to buy the stock at a lower amount than the price at which they sold short.
Participatory Notes: Participatory notes are a stock trade facilitating financial instrument
in the Indian stock exchange. As per SEBI guidelines only those individuals/companies
registered with SEBI can trade at the stock exchange. This has kept out a substantial category
of high net worth individuals who would not register/open shop in India. Since the ultimate
stockholder is not known, India did not encourage this. However, from late 1990s, under SEBI
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Note: This list is not exhaustive. It has been prepared just to give you an idea about what you
can expect in an interview. People with relevant work experience in finance domain can
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Need: It is state of deprivation of some basic satisfaction. eg.- food, clothing, safety, shelter.
Want: Desire for specific satisfier of need. eg.- Indians needs food wants paneer tikka/ tandoori
chicken. Americans needs food- wants hamburger/ French fries.
Demand: Want for a specific product backed up by ability and willingness to buy. eg.- Need
transportation.
Demand is influenced by making product :
APPROPRIATE
ATTRACTIVE
APPROACHABLE/ AFFORDABLE
AVAILABLE EASILY
Product Anything that can be offered to the market to satisfy the needs and wants.
Product Category Products satisfying a specific need or want. E.g. Detergent, Shampoo
Product Form Type of product category E.g. Detergent can be in powder/ liquid/ bar.
Brand A name and/or symbol to identify the product of one seller and to differentiate it
from others.
Brand Valuation It is the process of estimating the total financial value of a brand (both
tangible as well as intangible part).
Brand Equity A set of intangible assets that literary add value to the brand and to the firm
as a whole (goodwill).
Commodity Products which have no names. E.g. wheat, sugar etc. sold from grocery where
there is no branding or assurance. Brands which cannot be differentiated are called
commodityclass.
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Marketing
Selling
Understanding
Technical Name
Marketing Research
Promotion
Distribution
Transaction
Selling
Customer support
Promotion
As opposed to goods, services are intangible. People and process of delivery is important in
service. Clients presence is must, so ambience should be good.
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The fourth is that services as a process are perishable and time dependent, and
unlike goods, they can't be stored. You cannot come back last week for an air flight
or a day on campus.
And fifth, the specifications of a service are defined and evaluated as a package of
features that affect the five senses.
Production process A production process is defined as a user of resources to
transform inputs into desired output. For a plant that manufactures tyres, raw material,
labor and capital can be inputs while the finished rubber tyre will be the output. The
steps through which the raw material is converted into a finished good can be
referred to as a process.
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management is mainly about identifying the amount and the position of the goods
that a firm has in their inventory. Inventory management is imperative as it helps to
defend the intended course of production against the chance of running out of
important materials or goods.
Inventory management also includes making essential connections between the
replenishment lead time of goods, asset management, the carrying costs of
inventory, future inventory price forecasting, physical inventory, available space for
inventory, demand forecasting and much more.
By balancing these competing requirements, a company will discover their
optimal inventory levels. This is an ongoing process, as the firm will need to shift
and adjust as it changes and expands.
Planning & ForecastingPlanning is defined as The establishment of objectives, and
the formulation, evaluation and selection of the policies, strategies, tactics and action
required to achieve them. Planning comprises long term/strategic planning and
short term/operational planning. The latter is usually for a period of up to one year.
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improvement process. It's a soft and gradual method opposed to more usual
western habits to scrap everything and start with new.
TOCTheory of Constraints (TOC) is a holistic way of thinking about a system (i.e.
optimize the system globally and not locally). Traditional cost accounting and
productivity measure may promote local optimization. TOC recognizes that the
bottlenecks or constraints are present in the system which limits system output.
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