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[quote]Hi there Bloggerparty folk,

I just came aboard.

I hope to write some interesting posts in due course.

I also wish to add some links to my other blogsites in the future as well.

Today we have been to a little hill-top village not far from here. It is a tiny village with one shop in the corner of a bar. We parked our car and walked up from the village hall up into the village proper entering through the La Porte des Anglais, of course.

There we had a surprise; all the village houses were decorated. In the garden of a house by the village gate was a nativity crib standing up high surrounded at its feet by straw and rabbits (real live ones) and at the back separated by a fence, a donkey. The next house had two pens outside the garden one of which contained some goats and sheep and the other a llama, I kid you not. They were the contribution, to the festivities, of a small animal park nearby.

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The Indian stock market the Sensex has risen sharply by more than 5% over the last 2 trading sessions alone.

Catalysing this rise was the optimistic forecast provided by Infosys for the next fiscal year.

What has happened(as it often does) is that the entire SECTOR rises along with the market leader. This is because the leader often acts as a bellweather for the entire sector. As a result other I.T majors have also risen sharply over the last 2 days.

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So, this post is going to talk about investing in India. Make sure you read the disclaimer at the end before throwing your hard earned MOOLAH at Indian securities.

The red-hot Indian stock market is perhaps been the best reflection of India's growth story in the 21'st century. While most people hear of India's IT firms, and call centres; there are numerous big players in the chemicals, pharmateutical, energy, retail and infrastructure sectors that have the potential to offer superb returns in the coming years.

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Any investment advisor will tell you that one should diversify one's investment portfolio. But what exactly does this mean?.

An example: say you have $100 to invest and you are considering two stocks - an oil company and an airline firm. If you put all your money on the oil stock, then you will loose a lot of money if the price of crude oil falls. On the other hand, if the price of oil goes up, the airline stock will fall as it's energy costs rise. If however, you put $50 in each the paper value of your portfolio will fluctuate much lesser with variations in the price of crude oil. If you sell at the right time, you will make profits, while reducing the downside risk to your portfolio.

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When a Stock market rises as rapidly as the Sensex , the reporting tends to get polarized. Some business writers become unabashedly bullish - saying India's day in the Sun has finally come; others become unforgivingly bearish predicting that bears will come out of hibernation(mind you most of India, especially Mumbai does not really have a winter).

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