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Month: March 2013

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Zenith Sarafs Accused of Fraud, Asked to Produce $34 Million Bank Guarantee

SEBI has ordered the Saraf family of Zenith Infotech to produce bank guarantees of $33 million without using any funds of the company. SEBI has found evidence ...

The New Age of Age-Old Capital Controls: Cyprus Edition

Cyprus is getting ready to impose capital controls from tomorrow, when their banks reopen after about 10 days of being shut as the EU considered bailing them ...

IT Falters, RE Stutters, Auto Flutters

Reuters thinks this is the end of IT Staffing as we know it. They quote a changing scene in IT, with headcount being shrunk while profits and revenues are ...

If you want to do…

I have recently realized that what you see as a “press release” that sounds like it will make the company a juicy buy, might actually have more to say on ...

Helaine Olen on The Daily Show on Guru-sters

On The Daily Show, Helaine Olen, who wrote the book "Pound Foolish", talks about the way personal finance gurus tend to tell us about all these ...

SEBI Makes Mutual Funds Show Risk in Colours

SEBI has gone from seeing things in black-and-white to now, colour-coded mutual funds. It has, in a circular, asked all mutual funds to colour code their funds ...

RBI Cuts Repo by 0.25%, Market Expected More

The RBI has cut the Repo rate by 0.25% in a move that was more or less expected (I actually thought they might not cut this time, given Subbarao’s ...

The Unwinding of Cyprus (Or, “Sigh” Prus)

As we now know, the ECB and other mad European countries have been urging Cyprus to accept the bailout plan that requires all bank deposits to take a 9.9% ...

Cyprus Deposits Have To Pay Bailout Tax; It Is India’s 7th Largest FDI Source

Cyprus is now in the news, as it gets bailed out by the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission. Unfortunately, as a condition for the bailout, all bank ...

CPI Inflation for Feb 2013 at 10.91%

In a stark difference from whatever the Wholesale Price Inflation guys are smoking, consumer prices have now left the building through the roof. At nearly 11%, ...