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Month: July 2013

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The Dollar Return on the Nifty is -8% in 6 Years

As the USD-INR rate hits 61, we get that sick feeling in the stomach that next month, my son’s Lego buy will be that much more expensive. However, the sick ...

Nifty Snapshot: Up 5% in 7 Sessions

The Nifty has closed the week above the 200 Day Moving Average (DMA) and below the 50 DMA, at 5868. We are now 5% up from the very recent lows of just below ...

Bhalla: Food Security Bill (FSB) will cost 300,000 cr., or 3% of GDP

Surjit Singh Bhalla has come up with a fascinating insight on the new Food Security Bill (FSB) in which he says will cost us over 300,000 cr. He was responding ...

Unilever Open Offer Nets $3 bn, Gets Them To 67%

Unilever’s open offer for Hindustan Unilever (HUL) shares has been completed, with them acquiring about 32 cr. (320 million) shares at the price of Rs. 600. ...

RBI Wants Banks to Set More Aside for Unhedged Forex Exposure by Borrowers

RBI has announced draft guidelines for higher provisioning requirements while lending to corporates with “unhedged foreign currency exposure”. A quick ...

Sub-Prime Securities?

Economic Times has the news that Prime Securities, a broker with the NSE, is in trouble for owing Rs. 80-100 cr. to the NSE for derivatives trading margin. ...

#Linkfest: Gold Shortage, Bad Rating Agencies, Services PMI , Low Auto Sales and the Fun in Greece

Gold’s trading at a high premium. Get this, RBI. You can’t reduce the consumption of a product by restricting supply, when demand is high. Jewellers are ...
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Chart: Base Rates of Indian Banks Don’t Respond Quickly When RBI Cuts Rates

Since RBI introduced the base rate in 2010, Banks are not allowed to lend below that rate. Take a look at how banks have moved their rates in response to RBI ...

The Betrayal of Market Prices

The quality of underlying data is very important when you try to make decisions based on that data. For instance, my friend Karthik Shashidhar writes at ...

26 New Bank Applicants Includes Most Big Family Names, Some Unknowns

Twenty six applicants have come forward for setting up banks in India, says the RBI. The exhaustive list: Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd., Mumbai. Bajaj Finserv Ltd., ...