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Happy Birth day to me

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Jawwad

Now that the news is out, I might as well wish myself. For my 39th birthday at the stroke of midnight in the midst of a blog upgrading orgy (from WordPress 2.7 to 3.01), I blew up the Crude Oil Insight blog. The resulting four hour headache reminded me how inadequate I have become when…

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Crude Oil Outlook – Crude Oil price outlook increasingly bearish for second half 2010

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Jawwad

This weekend ran into a bit of time and did a review of educated posts on the status of the US economy, China, Europe, crude oil production, foreign currencies and the combined impact of all of the above on crude oil price outlook in the next two quarters. Do you want a quick summary? One…

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Fixed Income securities, Bruce Tuckman: Recommended Reading

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Jawwad

They say you can tell everything about someone by taking a look at his bedside reading list. Here is a new feature that shares my bed side reading habits as well as reviews one handy and useful book that helped me get to the next stage of understanding in this field. My book of the…

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Learning Corporate Finance – A new look for the top five courses

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Jawwad
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Online Finance courses – Top finance courses at the Finance e-education portal

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Jawwad

Based on Google analytics tracking, here are the top courses on the Corporate Finance e-education portal this month.   Structured Products: Basic Products, sample term sheet and pricing | Learning Corporate Finance – 171 Views Calculating Forward Prices, Forward Rates and Forward Rate Agreements (FRA) – Calculation reference | Learning Corporate Finance – 146 Views Asset Liability…

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Learning Corporate Finance – Now a Technorati Top 100 Finance blog

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Jawwad

It took five months to break through the Technorati Rating system but earlier this month Learning Corporate Finance finally became a Technorati Top 100 Finance blog. Couldn’t have done this without our content team (Agnes, Nabil and Adnan) and our super editor (Uzma) or our designer (Nida Faizi) or without the marvelous technological platform of…

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Online Financial Education – Corporate Finance for the truly insane

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Jawwad

Jehan reviews the Corporate Finance E-Education at In the line of wire and calls it a finance for the totally insane. More details at her blog where she uses finance, torturous experience, punishment, difficult childhoods and interest rate options all in the same paragraph and manages to crack a Greek joke too at the same…

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Istanbul Hotels – Radisson Blue at the Airport

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Jawwad

When the Turkish airline shuttle drops you off at the Radisson Blu airport hotel at 10 pm at night, you think that you have been dumped at yet another airport hotel. But that is before your monring walk when you discover that you are right next to a Metro station and the Metro station is…

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Istanbul – Sultan-Ahmet-Hagia-Sofia-and-Bosphorus Cruise

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Jawwad

Sultan Ahmet Suites, Nida’s selection of a place for us to crash for four days was perfect in many ways. Lots of space for four kids to romp around, central location (the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, Hagia Sofia, Topkapi Palace and cheap as well as expensive food were all a short walk away). Unlike a hotel…

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Turkey: Antalya – the city with many faces

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Jawwad

Antalya the city has many faces. Its warm in the Sun and cooler in the shade. The first face that we saw was suburban Antalya, outside the humdrum of the old city, the markets, the grand bazar. Set besides Duden park it was a modern retirement home for the Turkish expat community with a small…

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