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Month: September 2013

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RBI With Rajan Opens a Swap Window For FCNR Deposits With Banks

The new RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan, attempts to open the floodgates of foreign capital into India. Banks that raise Foreign Currency Non-Resident (FCNR) ...

Local Manufacturing Could Be The Future

A number of online media sites are running stories of how the fall in the rupee is hurting real lives. Students in the UK write in to say they have to pay much ...

Vodafone’s $130 Billion Deal Gets Tax-Avoidance Outrage

Vodafone just sold their holding in Verizon Wireless, back to Verizon, for a mighty $130 billion. And the deal has a very interesting structure. Vodafone’s ...

The Real Estate Ponzi Scheme Exposed: RBI Warns Banks Funding Builders with Upfront or 80:20 Loans

In a notification, banks have been told to watch all loans under “innovative” financing schemes which involve giving builders the full home loan amount ...

SEBI Makes Market-Halt Circuit Limits Dynamic

SEBI has decided to alter the circuit breaker limits for stock exchanges. Currently, market wide circuit breakers apply after a 10% change (1 hour), 15% change ...

NSEL Chairman Interview: I Didn't Know

The ex-chairman of NSEL, Shankarlal Guru, meets Zee News for an exclusive. He says he wasn’t aware of irregularities. That some people had told NSEL there ...

Markets Down 3%, Rupee Past 68. Fears of Syria, Or Something Else?

This is just a heads up. The fear is that something is happening in Syria. But these are rumours and the following could be an overreaction. Russia supposedly ...

Indonesian Rupiah Slammed To Lowest Since 2009

It’s not just India. The Rupiah has fallen to 11,000 to a dollar, the lowest level since 2009. This part is scary: The nation’s trade shortfall was $2.3 ...

Massive Devolvement Forces RBI To Cut Bond Issuance

In what is definitely a temporary move, the RBI has cut the issuance of government bonds this Friday to just 10,000 cr. , down from the 15,000 cr. that was ...

Manufacturing PMI for Aug 2013 Contracts, Lowest Since 2009

India’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) came in below 50 for August 2013, the first sub-50 level (indicating contraction) since 2009. The ...