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How Will Indian Stock Markets React to 2024 Elections?

Trade Brains

Not only the elections but also the presentation of the budget, economic policies, the popularity of the leader, economic events and other factors, can send ripples through the stock market. Do elections have any impact on the stock market? Long story short, yes! Before the May 2014 election, the Sensex went up by 16.6%

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Sunday Retirement Reading

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Some sort of work or vocation seems like the best way to get at least two of those, maybe you need to budget time for working out and (for me) hiking. Staying physically active, mentally engaged, seeking purpose are all components of successful aging. That's how I felt 20 years ago and still do. This was a personal black swan.

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How And Why To Give Away Your Money In 2024

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

While no significant decreases in charitable giving were found, CCS did find that “in more recent presidential election years, it appears that political giving is making up an increasingly larger percentage of all giving during the months surrounding the election, hovering around 12% in the fall of 2016 compared to around 8% in the fall of 2004.”

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Top Mutual Funds For SIP In 2023

Trade Brains

Yeah, that lot that talks about terms like compounding, risk profile, returns, retirement planning, budgeting, Investing, and whatnot! Expense ratio 1.74% Inception Date August 16, 2004 Exit Load (o to 12 months) 1.00% No. It has been in existence since August 16, 2004. 1-yr return 7.84

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. SETHI: Yes. How did that evolve into a book?

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

One, it doesn’t have a budget allocation from Congress. They’re a budget, they’re a check writing organization. BRYANT: Because small business starts stalled in 2004. What they don’t want is an unfunded mandate. And as well-meaning as financial literacy is, it’s got two problems.

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Revenge of the Nerds

The Better Letter

Moneyball focused on the 2002 season of the Oakland Athletics, a team with one of the smallest budgets in baseball. It became a huge bestseller and accelerated the statistical disruption of the National Pastime. Sabermetrics was then pretty much the sole province of stats geeks, alleged to be living in their parents’ basements.