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Month: February 2009

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Tata Capital NCDs: High "Construction Equipment" Loans

Tata Capital is advertising its new issue of Non Convertible Debentures heavily. Basic data: Issue size: 500 cr. (lower end) to 1500 cr. (upper end). Dates: ...

SEC finds another fraud: Sanford, $8 bn

Bloomberg: U.S. regulators accused R. Allen Stanford of running a “massive, ongoing fraud” while selling about $8 billion in certificates of deposit ...

Gilt yields go to 6.48%, a new low [on Price]

The 10 year, 2018 bond ended at a yield of 6.48%, which is a new recent low in the price (111.6). Reasons, they say, is that the government needs to borrow a ...

Gold touches $950 an ounce, Rs. 15,000 crossed

Gold prices touched 15,000 rupees in India for 10 grams and $950 abroad (for an ounce). GoldBEES, a Gold ETF I own, traded at 1500 on the NSE. This is a ...

China: Loans diverted to stocks, but not real estate

Bloomberg: Chinese loans diverted to stocks As much as 660 billion yuan ($97 billion) may have been converted by companies into term deposits or used to buy ...

CLO Defaults have “systemic risk”

FT: S&P sees new systemic risk in CLO defaults Standard & Poor’s has highlighted that many collateralised loan obligations – which pool leveraged ...

A deal by Indian Standards: 585K in Chula Vista

$585,000 for this place shown by Jim the realtor: (Hat tip: Calculated Risk) That’s about Rs. 2.8 cr., for a 4300 sq. ft. 4br house, fireplace, pool in ...

Nothing much in the Interim Budget

The much-hyped interim budget, presented by an interim finance minister after the real finance minister moved to the home ministry, and the replacement went to ...

Roubini on Recovery – Not Till 2010

A Roubini interview to start re-blogging: Important to note the last bit: Going the way of Sweden, has some hope: Sweden took over the banks, hived off the bad ...

Relocation to Gurgaon and Some Notes

I’ve been moving from Mumbai to Gurgaon and the last two weeks have been long and without proper internet access; lots of news and lots to write about. ...