Evolution
of
Commodity Market

Commodities future trading have evolved from the need for ensuring continuous supply of seasonal agricultural crop In Japan merchant stored rice in warehouses for future use In order to raised cash warehouse holder sold receipts against the stored rice these were know as rice ticket eventually such rice ticket became accepted as a kind of general commercial currency rule come into being to standardize the trading in rice ticket.

This concept of trading evolved in the 19th century In Chicago of trading had emerged as a major commercial hub with rice road and telegraph line It happens in 1848.

Gradually the farmers and dealer started to make commitment to exchanged the produced for future trading evolved where by the produced would agree to sell his produce (wheat) to the buyer at a future delivery date at an agree upto price this contract became popular very quickly and started changing hand even before the delivery date of the products If a dealer in not interested in taking delivery of the produce he would sell his contract to some one similarly It farmer who did not able to deliver his crop then he would pass on the responsibilities to another with some more modification such contract gradually transformed into an instrument to protect the parties evolved against adverse factors like unexpected price movement unfavorable climatic factor etc for example during bad weather people having contracts to sell wheat would be interested to hold more valuable contracts due to supply shortage conversely If there is oversupply the sellers contract value would decline. This prompted the entry of traders in the future market who had no intension to buy or sell wheat but would purely speculate on price movement in the market to earn profit the hedger’s (farmers) who wanted to protect themselves from price fluctuation began to efficiently transfer risk to the dealer trading in future as a result become

UPSC to hold Engineering Services Exam from June 26

The Union Service Public Commission (UPSC) will hold the Engineering Services Examination, 2010 from June 26, 2010 at various centres across the country.

Details regarding eligibility conditions, the syllabus and scheme of the examination, centres of examination, guidelines for filling up application form and so on are available on the UPSC website and have been published in the Employment News/Rozgar Samachar of January 30, an official press release said.

Between February 6 and February 22, candidates can also submit online applications for the examination, for which a separate notice will be issued, it said.

Those who wish to apply offline must apply in the Common Application Form devised by the Commission for its examinations, which can be purchased from the designated Head Post Offices/Post Offices throughout the country against cash payment of Rs 20.

Bank of Baroda Sample Question Paper For Marketing And Bank Entrance Exams

1. A prospect means
a) any customer who walks into the bank
b) an employee of the bank
c) a customer who is likely to be interested in bank's product or service
d) a depositor of the bank'
e) a borrower of the bank

2. A lead means
a) a prospect who is more likely to avail of the Bank's product
b) a political leader
c) a religious leader
d) a bank chairman
e) None of these

3. Innovation means
a) Compensation
b) inspiration
c) additional perquisites
d) implementing new ideas or new methods
e) None of these

4. A Call means
a) calling on friends
b) calling on bank employees
c) calling on prospective customers
d) to make telephone calls
e) calling on relatives

5. The Traditional Marketing style involves
a) Telemarketing
b) Digital Marketing
c) Indirect Marketing
d) Direct Marketing
e) All of these

6. Modern Method of Marketing include
a) Publicity on the net
b) Advertisement on the net
c) Soliciting business through e-mails
d) Tele marketing
e) All of these

7. A true marketing requires
a) Command and other mindset
b) Control Mindset
c) Passive mindset
d) Active mindset
e) None of these

8. Which of the following sentences is true?
a) Marketing is not required in a Buyers' Market
b) Marketing is not required in a Sellers's market
c) Marketing is not required due to competition
d) Marketing is not required due to liberalization
e) Marketing is not required due to globalisation

9. For effective marketing the salesmen should have which of these qualities?
a) Creativity
b) Team spirit
c) Motivation
d) Effective communication skills
e) All of these

10. Market information means
a) Knowledge of shops and bazaars
b) Knowledge of shopping malls
c) Knowledge of customer profile and product mix
d) knowledge of various languages
e) None of these

11. Market Research is needed for
a) checking the market area
b) checking the right product to be sold
c) making proper marketing decisions
d) deciding right time to sell
e) All of these

12. Which of the following statement is true
a) Marketing makes the company to go into loss due to higher expenses
b) Marketing is not required in profit making companies
c) Marketing sharpens the minds of the employees
d) Marketing is a time bound seasonal function
e) Marketing is a waste of time

13. Marketing plan helps in
a) better lead generation
b) better systems
c) better results
d) improved balance sheet
e) better customer service

14. If Marketing is done effectively which of the following is not required?
a) Advertisement
b) Publicity
c) Market Research
d) Market Segmentation

Syndicate Bank Probationary Officer Model Paper (Reasoning, M. Ability & Aptitude)

• REASONING

• MENTAL ABILITY

• APTITUDE

1. ‘Captain’ is related to a ‘Team’ in the same way as ‘Director’ is related to
(1) Supervisor  (2) Employee
(3) Organisation  (4) Union
(5) Customer

2. Find the odd one out of the following options
(1) Aunt  (2) Child
(3) Father  (4) Niece
(5) Relation

3. Pointing to a photograph of Mahesh, Ram said. “The father of his sister is the husband of my wife’s mother”. How is Ram related to Mahesh?
(1) Brother (2) Brother-in-law
(3) Father-in-law  (4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

4. If ‘fork’ is called ‘plate’, ‘plate’ is called ‘knife’, ‘knife’ is called ‘jug’, ‘jug’ is called ‘glass’, ‘glass’ is called ‘cup’ and ‘cup’ is called ‘fork’, by what do we cut fruit?
(1) spoon (2) jug
(3) glass (4) saucer
(5) none of these

5. If ‘a’ is substituted by 26,’B’ by 25 and so on up to ‘Z’ which is substituted by 1, what will be the sum of the numbers substituted for the word ‘XRAY’?
(1) 33 (2) 40
(3) 37 (4) 73
(5) None of these

6. In a certain code COIMBATORE is written as DPJNCBUPSF. How is INDORE written in that code?
(1) JOENQF (2) JMCPQD
(3) JOEPSF (4) HMCNQD
(5) None of these

7. Geeta is elder to Seeta but not to Deepa. Gayatri is younger than Deepa. No one is elder to Fatima. Who is youngest of them all?
(1) Seeta (2) Geeta
(3) Gayatri (4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

8. Raman is sitting to the immediate left of Harry but not next to Kamal. Mahesh is sitting to the right of Kamal. If the four friends are sitting in a circle who is sitting to the immediate right of Harry?
(1) Mahesh (2) Kamal
(3) Raman (4) Harry
(5) Cannot be determined

9. How many three letter meaningful English words can be formed from the word NOTE beginning with ‘T’ and without repeating any letter?
(1) Three (2) One
(3) Two (4) None
(5) None of these

Directions (11-15): Answer question 11 to 15 based on the following sequence:  A $ B # 9 G 3D K « M ? C Q 2 X 7 P 5 U 8 I 4 Y ə J

11. How many elements in the above arrangement are both immediately preceded and immediately followed by a number?
(1) One (2) Two
(3) Three (4) Five
(5) None of these

12. Which of the following will be the fifteenth element from the left end if all the numbers are arranged in descending order from left to right, keeping the position of the other elements in arrangement un-changed?
(1) 5 (2) 4
(3) 7 (4) 8
(5) None of these

13. How many letters in the above arrangement are immediately followed by a symbol?
(1) Two (2) Five
(3) Four (4) Three
(5) None of these

14. Which of the following will be eighth to the left of the twelfth from the left end of the arrangement?
(1) # (2) 7
(3) U (4) 9
(5) None of these

15. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their position in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
(1) G$M (2) K9Q
(3) ?D7 (4) 2MU
(5) PCI

16. In a certain code language’ In ba pe’ means ‘he has won’,'le ki ba’ means ‘she has lost’ and ‘in se pe’ means ‘he always won’. Which word in that language means ‘he’?
(1) in (2) pe
(3) se (4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

17. X is Y’s brother. S is T’s mother and X’s aunt. How is T related to X?
(1) Sister (2) Cousin
(3) Aunt (4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

18. If the letters of the word OBSERVANT are interchanged, such that the first becomes ninth, second becomes eighth, and so on, and the position of the fifth letter remains unchanged then what will be the new arrangement of letters?
(1) TNAVERSBO (2) TNVARESBO
(3) NTAVERSBO (4) VANTRESBO
(5) None of these

19. If 1 is coded as Ś, 5 is coded as %, 6 is coded as «, 3 is coded as +, 7 is coded as # and 4 is coded as ? What will be the correct form of the number 435671?
(1) ? + % « # Ś (2) ? + % Ś # «
(3) ? + « % # Ś (4) Ś # « % + ?
(5) None of these

20. Which of the following have the same relationship as BREAD:DBARE?
(1) SWORN: NSOWR (2) FUNDS: FSDUN
(3) GLAZE : EGZAL (4) LOWER: RLEWO
(5) None of these

Directions (21-25): Read the following information and attempt the given questions: Six executive Aman, Bindu, Deepa, Jitu, Kamal and Priyanka have to advertise four products i.e. soap, watches, computers and chocolates on 3 different channels, i.e. Go, Come and Fun either alone or in pairs. An executive can visit only one channel and advertise only one product. No more than two executives can advertise on a channel.

(i) Bindu and Jitu both visit the same channel but advertise different products.
(ii) Aman who visits ‘Go’ advertises neither soap nor computers.
(iii) Kamal does not advertise chocolates.
(iv) No girl advertises soap.
(v) The two executives who advertise chocolates visit Spice

21. Who advertises watches?
(1) Deepa (2) Kamal
(3) Aman (4) Priyanka
(5) None of these

22. Which of the following Channel-product pairs in definitely incorrect?
(1) Go-watch (2) Come-computer
(3) Go-soap (4) Come-soap
(5) Come-watch

23. Which channel does Kamal visit?
(1) Go (2) Fun
(3) Come (4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

24. If Bipasha advertises computers which of the following must be true?
(1) Jitu advertises soap (2) Jitu advertises watches
(3) Kamal advertises computers (4) Kamal works for Fun
(5) None of these

25. What will Jitu advertise?
(1) Chocolates (2) Watches
(3) Computers or watches (4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

26. Swaroop and Simple want to attend a seminar together between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Simple cannot leave till after her lunch break which begins at 1.30 p.m. Swaroop is free after her meeting which ends at noon. For how many hours can the two of them attend the seminar?
(1) 3 ½ hours (2) 2 ½ hours
(3) 4 ½ hours (4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

27. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ANSWER each of which has as many letters between them in the word as there are in the English language?
(1) One (2) Two
(3) Four (4) Three
(5) None of these

28. Find the odd one out
(1) 2 (2) 7 (3) 11 (4) 13 (5) 9

29. If all the letters in the word MERCIFUL are rearranged in alphabetical order and substituted by the alphabet preceding them in the English alphabet what will be the new arrangement of letters?
(1) BDHEKLQT (2) BDEHKLQT
(3) BDEHLKQT (4) BDEJMLQT
(5) None of these

30. Out of 38 families in a housing society 5 subscribe to Hindi news-papers alone, 12 subscribe to both Hindi and Marathi newspapers. Find the number of Maranthi news-paper subscribers.
(1) 9 (2) 21
(3) 17 (4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these

Directions (31-35): Below are given letters and their numeric codes. Below that are given some conditions to be followed while codifying the given letter groups in each question. Study them and find out the correct numeric coded form of the given letter group in each question. If none of the coded forms is correct, your answer will be (5) i.e. ‘None of these’.

Download Application Form of Punjab & Sind Bank Clerical Recruitment 2010-11

Punjab and Sind Bank announces several vacancies for Clerical Recruitment project 2010-11. Last date of submitting the application form is 23.02.2010. You can download PSB Application form Format and can fill up the same as usual. Click on the following button to download the form.

UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
ENGINEERING SERVICES EXAMINATION, 2010

• Online Registration Will Be Started on : 6th February, 2010

• Last Date of Filling/Accept Online Application/Form : 22nd February, 2010 -  till 11.59 p.m.

This is with reference to UPSC’s Advt. No. 05/2010 for Engineering Services Examination, 2010 published in Employment News/ Rozgar Samachar dated 30th January, 2010. It is informed that in addition to the existing system of applying through a Common Application Form for the Examinations conducted by the Commission, the candidates for Engineering Services Examination, 2010 can also apply Online using the link http://www.upsconline.nic.in.

Salient features of the system of On Line Application Form are given hereunder :

Read Pratiyogita Darpan Magazine : February 2010

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING ONLINE APPLICATION

1. Log on to http://www.upsconline.nic.in/ to access the home page of the ONLINE APPLICATION.

2. Before filling up the form candidates are advised to carefully go through the Notification No 05/2010-Engg. published in the Employment News dated 30.01.2010 excerpts of which are also available in the Examination Notice submenu of the Guidelines to the Candidates menu.

3. Place the mouse over the Examination menu. The link would display a set of two options namely PART-I Registration and PART-II Registration.

4. Clicking on PART-I Registration link would take you to the list of all the active examinations, where you can select to apply for any of the listed examination by clicking on the link Click Here against each exam.

5. Clicking on PART-II Registration would take you to the second part of the online application, which we will discuss and follow later in these instructions.

6. When the candidate clicks on Click Here link for the particular examination (as indicated in step 4) he/she will be redirected to a new page for entering into PART-I Registration of Online Application.

7. Click on the Continue button to proceed for the PART-I Registration. Clicking on Continue button opens-up a fresh blank form for the PART-I Registration. The Part-I Registration process is FURTHER divided into 5(FIVE) pages in which the candidates have to fill in the information, particulars and details asked for. Fields with red STAR (*) marks are mandatory and essential to be filled in by the candidate. Below every field clear instructions for filling up are written which should be carefully read and strictly followed by the candidates while filling up the form. Page-wise information asked are as follows:-

PAGE ONE:

Here the system inter-alia asks for Candidates Personal Information including Name, DOB, Fathers name, Mothers name, Address, if the candidate falls in the Physically Challenged status and category, Community the candidate belongs to (General, OBC, SC, ST), whether Fee Remission is claimed etc. Instructions are given below each field, which may be read carefully and followed strictly.

[Candidates may note that SC, ST, Physically Challenged and Women candidates are not required to pay fee. When the candidates choose Female in Gender field; Yes in Physically Challenged field; ST or SC in Community field; YES response is indicated in the fee remission claimed field by default which they are not required to change. These candidates will not be taken through the fee payment details page where the candidates are supposed to fill in the Payment Details while filling up Part-II of the Online Application.]

Click on Continue button at bottom of the page to go to the second page.

PAGE TWO:

Here the system asks if the candidate wishes to apply for Age Relaxation. The candidate will be given the option to select the category under which he/she is applying for age relaxation. (Candidates are advised to refer to the Notification No. 05/2010-Engg. published in the Employment News dated 30.1.2010).

And

Asks for the Examination Centre the candidate wishes to appear from. The candidate is to select a centre from the drop down menu.

Click on Continue button at bottom of the page to go to the third page.

PAGE THREE:

On this page Information about Engineering branch opted is to be given. A branch is to be selected from the drop down menu.

Click on Continue button at bottom of the page to go to the fourth page.

PAGE FOUR:

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