In the Nepalese market, the price of gold has reached an all-time high. The gain for today is the result of a Rs. 1200 single-day gain from yesterday’s price.
According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association’s official website, fine gold is currently trading at Rs. 107,500 per tola. Yesterday, the rate remained unchanged at Rs. 106,300 per tola. Meanwhile, Tejabi gold is currently trading at Rs. 107,000. In contrast, the rate was kept at Rs. 105,800 per tola yesterday.
The Securities Exchange Board of Nepal (SEBON) has approved Dolti Power Company Limited and Bhugol Energy Development Company Limited’s proposed initial public offering (IPO). On Magh 16, both proposals were approved.
Dolti Power Company will now issue 1,609,458 equity shares with NPR 100 par value each. The issue is worth Rs. 16.09 crore. This is equivalent to 30% of the company’s issued capital. The company’s total paid-up capital after the IPO allotment would be Rs 53.64 crore.
The price of gold has surged by Rs. 500 in the domestic market today.
According to the official website of the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, fine gold is being traded today at Rs. 106,300 per tola. Yesterday, the rate was maintained at Rs. 105,800 per tola. Meanwhile, Tejabi gold is being traded at Rs. 105,800 today. In contrast, the rate was maintained yesterday at Rs. 105,300 per tola.
The Electricity Regulatory Commission has given preliminary approval to Synergy Power Development Company (SPDL) to issue a 2: 1 right offering. On Kartik 17, 2079, the application for the issuance of right shares was submitted to ERC.
On Shrawan 24, 2078, the board of directors proposed issuing 50% right shares on the paid-up capital after adjusting 10% bonus shares for fiscal year 2077/78, i.e. Rs. 80,65,75,000. The company’s paid-up capital will rise to Rs. 120.98 crores after the proposed right share is adjusted.
Now that the government have given permission to several banks to issue dollar cards to Nepali citizens, Paypal might start looking at supporting Nepali market as well. However, being a small country, a tiny market for Paypal and strict NRB policies, it could not be possible anytime soon.
Ban of Transaction of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in Nepal.
The central bank of Nepal, Nepal Rastra Bank (“NRB”) published a notice pursuant to Nepal Rastra Bank Act 2001 (“NRB Act”) and Foreign Exchange (Regulation) Act 1962 (“FERA”) prohibiting the usage of Bitcoin in Nepal. NRB has not recognized Bitcoins as a valid currency in Nepal.
A few highlights on the ban:
These are only a few of the reasons, in my opinion, why bitcoin is prohibited in Nepal. The existing Nepali laws prohibit it, and the central bank believes that bitcoin cannot be effectively regulated, that it can be used for unlawful purposes, and that it will harm the Nepali economy in the long run. The Nepalese government has recently taken tough measures against bitcoin transactions, including arresting people who were mining bitcoin or had large amounts of bitcoin, shutting down Nepal’s largest bitcoin exchange operator Bitsewa and arresting its owners, and even arresting a Nepali politician from a minor party for bitcoin trading.
Have you decided to invest in the stock market? Consider these 7 stock market investing tips when making your investments.
1. Have a solid comprehension of basic economic principals.
Before you get started, you should understand basic principals and laws of economics. The stock market closely follows the law of supply and demand. For example, when there is a large demand for the stock of a certain company, the cost of its stock will increase along with the demand. However, if there are more stock available for sale than there are buyers, the unit price of that company stock will decrease.
2. Learn about prospective companies you want to invest in.
Do your homework before you invest in prospective companies. Read the company annual report and find out about their products, operations, services and basic business track record. This information gives you an idea of how stable the company is and whether they can deliver on their promise to offer profits to investors.
3. Select companies with staying power.
There are so many companies that exist in today’s stock market, selecting becomes a major decision for beginning investors. Relatively stable companies and business are owned by the government, unless there is a political revolution or crisis going on. Gasoline companies and telecommunications companies are usually profitable and stable because there is a constant demand for their services and products. While IT companies are rapidly growing in today’s stock market, there are so many of them it may be a challenge to check their profiles to exercise reasonable care before investing. Before putting your money into an IT company, verify their track record and make sure they are stable and profitable for a minimum of 10 years.
4. Keep an eye on the news.
Guesswork is completely ineffective when it comes to investing in the stock market. Good intuition and solid decision-making come from learning about global and local news both politically and economically. When you watch the news, make sure to keep track of the industry your company is in. Even stable companies may go bankrupt or have a major blow that will bring them down.
5. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Avoid investing in just one company and spread out your stock investments to several businesses. When you have stock concentrated in just one company, you have a greater chance of losing it all. When you spread out your investments over several companies, those earning profits can cushion the ones that not not as profitable.
6. Stockbrokers aren’t the final word.
A stock broker is actually gambling with your money so you need to do your own homework. Dishonest brokers can take advantage of investors who do not fully comprehend how the stock market works.
7. Greed is your enemy.
While everyone is eager to make profits in the stock market, an investor loses their sense of reason when they are fueled by greed. A money hungry investor may forget to check on economic rumors and spontaneously decide to sell or buy with the thought of making major profits and then lose it all.
Putting your money in the stock market can of course be risky, but the above stock market investing tips should help point you in the right direction.
Before we get into how to become an investor in Nepal, it’s important to understand who an investor is. An investor is someone who puts money into something with the hope of profiting in the future. A return is the benefit derived from such an investment. Investors are always on the lookout for high-yielding investment opportunities.
Based on a book written by Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad, people can be divided into four distinct categories in terms of generating income. They are:
1. Employee (Salary-based) are those who work for others in order to meet their needs. They are paid at the end of the month for their work. Job holders are included in this category. Employees benefit from security because they know they will be paid at the end of the month. The main disadvantage of being an employee is the lack of freedom.
2. Self-employed are individuals who work for themselves. They have more freedom than salaried employees, but they must work like salaried employees to meet their demands.
3. Businessmen are the owners of the company Business owners hire others to work for them. They create products and services in order to make money.
4. Investors invest in businesses and stocks for profit.
According to the book, in order to become wealthy, you must be either a businessman or an investor, or both.
Not all of your money can be considered an investment. There are a few factors that distinguish between spending and investing. The following are the two most important characteristics that every investor should possess:
The principal is your machine, which can print money for you. It is in your best interest to keep your machine in good working order. When you lose your principal, you can’t make money off of it. As a result, the safety of the principal should be your top priority.
When you put your money into a good business, you get something in return. Your return can take the form of cash, shares, or stocks. What you should remember is that your principal earns you some level of return. You should not expect a return on your investment that is exponential or even out of the realm of possibility. Investing with a non-realistic expectation of return is gambling. Never put your principal at risk. It is all you have.
Inflation is a term used to describe the gradual decline in the purchasing power of money. A popular saying goes, “A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow.” As an investor, you have the ability to outperform inflation and keep your money’s value constant. You should always keep an eye on inflation and strive to outperform it. Your investment return should always be greater than your country’s inflation rate.
It is yet another advantage of being an investor. You can own as many and as varied businesses as you want. What you should have are some investing principles that you can use before you start investing. After you’ve established your investing principle, the world is yours to explore.
There are three main popular fields of investing in Nepal. They are:
Real estate is and has always been the best investment opportunity. Real estate investment generates income from two sources: renting and selling real estate. It can be both active and passive investment. You can actively buy and sell properties, or you can simply invest in real estate and let time do the work of calculating your income. You can always expect your property’s value to rise over time. In the meantime, you can use the money you earn from renting to cover your day-to-day expenses.
Banks in Nepal offer competitive interest rates on fixed deposit savings. You can protect your principal by using fixed-deposit schemes offered by commercial banks or development banks in Nepal. While cooperative companies in Nepal have high rates of return, they have a bad reputation for fraud or scams. It is not a good idea to put all of your money in cooperatives.
In Nepal, there is also peer-to-peer lending. It pays a higher interest rate on your money than institutions, but it also carries a higher risk.
Interest-bearing deposits are one of the best passive income ideas in Nepal, regardless of where you choose to invest.
Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) is the country’s sole stock exchange. If you are new to this, you can read the NEPSE beginner’s guide. Investing in stocks provides you with two significant benefits. You can be a shareholder in any company you want, and you will receive an annual return. Alternatively, you can sell your stocks if the price rises. Stock investing, like real estate investing, allows you to be either an active trader or a passive investor. Stock investing can begin with as little as 100 rupees. Stocks could be the next best small business in Nepal for you.
Furthermore, the best investment you can make is in yourself. Always seek to broaden your knowledge. Read books, websites, and news to stay current. One thing that all of the best investors have in common is that they are voracious readers. As the saying goes, the more you learn, the more you earn.
It is not easy to become an investor. To become a good investor in Nepal and other countries, a certain set of principles and hard work are required. However, it is not as difficult as learning rocket science. Anyone can become a good investor with careful planning and dedication. There are a few things you should never forget and a few things you should never forget. Best wishes for your investment.
So far, cryptocurrencies are illegal in a few countries, whereas the rest of the world either sees it as fitting to utilise these ‘monies’, or keeps them in a grey area of financial law. Similarly, though most countries in the world do not criminalise cryptocurrencies, they have yet to define their usage as monies or commodities, thus making varied classifications all over the world.
Nepal Rastra Bank has already made it clear in its notice dated August 13, 2017, that all transactions related to or regarding Bitcoins are illegal. But it allied Bitcoins to “Foreign Exchanges”, though cryptocurrencies have no foreign central authority to regulate them. This is where the confusion is. Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency that is traded from one individual to the other, not through banks. It has no issuing or regulating country, and these bitcoins are converted into US dollars simply because dollars are used as an international exchange rate.
The covid19 pandemic is not only putting millions of people’s lives in peril, but it is also devastating the global economy. Our government has proclaimed general vacations and imposed a travel ban on the general public in order to combat the spread of Coronavirus. Nobody knows how long it will take for things to return to normal. Meanwhile, some huge organizations are downsizing their workforces, while small and mid-sized businesses are being forced to lay off employees. As a result, a large number of people are losing their employment or their salary. At this vital juncture, we’ll highlight several quarantine income opportunities, both online and offline. Keep reading to learn how you can make money during the lockdown!
If you are a graphic designer with experience utilizing popular graphic tools such as Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator, you can get hired online and earn big money. Graphic designers are hired by many overseas platforms to work on little to large projects including logo design, business card design, banner design, brochure design, and so on. Here are some job vacancies in distribution.
https://www.freelancer.com/jobs/graphic-design/
https://www.behance.net/joblist
https://99designs.com
https://www.upwork.com/ab/find-work
Do you like to use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram from time to time? Why don’t you complement your income with those sources? Any online social media channel that allows you to generate links or followers can be utilized to promote a product (made by another company). You may easily earn an affiliate fee if a viewer purchases your offered goods through your provided link. A variety of local businesses offer affiliation programs as well. Let’s have a look at some options.
https://www.daraz.com.np/wow/i/np/help-pages/daraz-affiliate-program
Affiliate marketing is a safe and secure way to earn money online. More people are choosing to affiliate marketing as a full-time career because of the attractive affiliate commission arrangements given by numerous companies. If you have good writing and/or video-making talents, as well as some SEO knowledge, you may generate a consistent income conducting affiliate marketing on your blog or YouTube. Take a peek at some of the various international affiliation channels.
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
http://www.cj.com/
https://shareasale.com/
Earn a comfortable living by teaching online. You can write courses based on your experience and advertise your profile on social media platforms like linkedin.com. Begin by enrolling in some low-cost or no-cost basic level courses. Consider offering some paid advanced-level skills classes if the audience responds well. Here are some local and worldwide resources for looking for online teaching employment and/or submitting your online course:
hhttps://www.udemy.com/teaching/
https://sellfy.com/sell/courses-online/
https://www.skillshare.com/teach
Do you have an innate desire to write? Yes, you can work as a freelance writer for a range of local and online publications if you answered yes. There are a range of freelance assignments accessible, including translation, guest writing, blog post writing, essay writing, academic writing, book writing, and study, whether you’re a newbie writer or a seasoned researcher. It will enable you to teach people while also allowing you to earn money. Take a look at the resources listed below.
https://solidgigs.com/
https://remote.co/remote-jobs/writing/
https://www.freelancewriting.com/jobs/
Do you enjoy working with computers? You can get hired online if you know any programming language, including PHP, Python, C#, Java, and others. Based on your degree of education and experience, you should apply for freelance programming employment. Here are a few areas where you might look for work as an internet programmer.
https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/database-programming/
https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelance-programming-jobs
https://www.indeed.com/q-Online-Programmer-jobs.html
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Jobs/Online-Programmer
Don’t be concerned if you aren’t a designer, editor, or programmer. The Internet is a huge ocean of possibilities for a wide range of occupations. If you have experience in a specific field of knowledge, such as business proposal preparation, project management, or digital marketing, you should hunt for freelance employment in foreign marketplaces.
Here are some useful links:
How does the stock market work? In a nutshell, the stock market is a market place for business people. Goods are sold to the public in a public market. However, in the stock market, the public is sold share. Shares are the form in which company stock is sold. When a person purchases more shares in a company, they have a higher ownership in that company.
In the stock market, there is the primary market and the secondary market. In the primary market, companies sell shares to investors to raise financing for their operating expenses. In the secondary market, investors buy and sell shares in companies to other investors. Constantly changing market conditions are the basis of those buy and sell decisions.
A stock market operates much like an auction house, with a systematic way of buying and selling. The system in the stock market involves a great deal of bustling activity. Often there are people running around frantically, shouting and gesturing at one another.
The purchase and sale of stock starts at various places. A broker is contacted if a person wants to buy stocks in a certain company. The broker will take the investor’s money to the stock exchange to coordinate with a floor broker.
In most cases, the floor broker works for the company selling stock. Right on the stock exchange floor, brokers buy the desired stock for the investor. Once the deal is made, it is communicated to a broker and the investor then becomes a stockholder of that particular company.
Investors may decide to sell their stock. Usually investors want to sell their stock when the price per share increases so they can realize a profit on their investment. For example, a person may purchase 100 shares at the price of $25 per share. When the price increases to $35 per share, the person can sell the 100 shares and make a profit of $1,000.
The driving force behind the stock market is the basic economic principal of supply and demand. The number of stocks open to the public is the supply. The number of shares that investors what to purchase affects the demand of the stock in a certain company.
The constant change in the cost of stock is a result of conditions in other markets. For example, if people feel that the economy is growing they are apt to purchase more stocks. However, when the economy is in a decline, the majority of investors tend to sell off their stocks. On the flip side, some investors use this time to buy because the stock prices are usually at a discount.
There are quite a few business people who make long term investments in the stock market. In some situations, stocks go down in value and a stockholder loses money. There is no guaranteed profit when investing in the stock market. Thus, when a person is flexible and able to handle the constant changes of the stock exchange they are more likely to experience a profit.
So this is how the stock market works. In the end, patience, education and experience usually equals greater long term success.
What is NEPSE Index?
Nepal stock exchange at the end of the day publishes the transaction index which is called the NepSe index. In simple language, the base market capitalization is used to calculate the Nepse index. The base market capitalization is February 12, 1994. In this day, share transaction was held for the first time in Nepal Stock Exchange. It is the first index to show the work of the stock market. The increase in the value and transaction of transacted share increase than the market capitalization value also increase. While calculating the market capitalization, the total share is multiplied by a certain day’s share value. As there is a different value of share number and share price, separate multiply value is calculated and added later to find the total sum. In this way, market capitalization is calculated. For example, the company named ‘SBC’ has registered 5, 00,000 number of shares @ Rs 100. On that day, the market capitalization value was Rs 50 crore. The market capitalization of each company is added to find out total market capitalization. Stock exchange finds out the market index on the base of market capitalization.
When the market capitalization increases, the Nepse index also increases and where market capitalization decreases, the Nepse index decrease. For example, on Ashad 24, 2067, the total market capitalization was Rs 3 Kharab 61 Arab 59 crore 77 lakh whereas adjusted base market capitalization was Rs 78 Arab 59 crore 70 lakh 5 thousand only.
Likewise, the Nepse index calculation formula is given below.
Current Market Capitalization
NEPSE index = × 100
Adjusted Base Market Capitalization
Rs 361597.70
Or, Nepse Index= × 100
Rs 78597.05
= 460.07
Therefore, the Nepse index was close at 460.07 points.