Stock Basics: Introduction

Wouldn't you love to be a business owner without ever having to show up at work? Imagine if you could sit back, watch your company grow, and collect the dividend checks as the money rolls in! This situation might sound like a dream, but it's closer to reality than you might think. As you've probably guessed, we're talking about owning stocks. This fabulous category of financial instruments is, without a doubt, one of the greatest tools ever invented for building wealth. Stocks are a part, if not the cornerstone, of nearly any investment portfolio. When you start on your road to financial freedom, you need to have a solid understanding of stocks and how they trade on the stock market.

Over the last few decades, the average person's interest in the stock market has grown exponentially. What was once a toy of the rich has now turned into the vehicle of choice for growing wealth. This demand coupled with advances in trading technology has opened up... Read More »

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TISCO has planned to provide 1:2  bonus             “The board of directors of the company, at its meeting held today, has decided to issue bonus shares in the ratio of 1:2 i.e. one bonus share for every two existing ordinary shares held by the members of the company, on a record date to be fixed later for this purpose. The issue of bonus shares is subject to the approval of the shareholders to be obtained at the annual general meeting of the company on July 22, 2004. “

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TCS IPO now open    

TCS to issue 55,452,600 equity shares of Rs 1 each for cash at a premium through a 100% book building process. The indicative price band has been fixed at Rs 775 and Rs 900 per equity share of Rs.1 each. The books will open to accept offers/bids on 29 July 2004 and close on 5 August 2004. The shares are to be listed on the National... Read More »

.Net has made a lot of things easier for us developers.  One of these things is the way we do HTTP Post and HTTP Get.  In classic ASP 3 you were forced to use 3rd party controls.but in .NET  we can use as below

 

Response.Write(EasyHTTP.Send("http://yahoo.com"))Response.Write(EasyHTTP.Send("http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search", "p=test"))

' EasyHTTP.vb class filePublic Class EasyHTTP    Public Enum HTTPMethod As Short        HTTP_GET = 0        HTTP_POST = 1    End Enum    Public Shared Function Send(ByVal URL As String, _        Optional ByVal PostData As String = "", _        Optional ByVal Method As HTTPMethod = HTTPMethod.HTTP_GET, _        Optional ByVal ContentType As String = "")        Dim Request As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(URL)        Dim Response As HttpWebResponse        Dim SW As StreamWriter        Dim SR As StreamReader        Dim ResponseData As String        ' Prepare Request Object        Request.Method = Method.ToString().Substring(5)        ' Set form/post content-type... Read More »