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Month: March 2014

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RBI Sells $1.1 Billion in January 2014, Second Largest Cumulative Dollar Sales Ever

The RBI has sold $1.93 billion in the forex spot market in January 2014, reveals their monthly bulletin for March. This has been offset partially by a $750 ...

EcoManifesto: Remove Exemptions, Reduce Tax Rates

In Capital Mind we start a series of posts on the economic future, and what policies must be adopted by whichever party will form the next government. We will ...

The Dollar Falls Below 200DMA, Will It Sustain?

The USDINR exchange rate went below Rs. 61 on Friday, which is a close below its 200 Day Moving Average, for the first time since Jun 2013. A 200DMA crossover ...

Markets: Feb Moves +3%, but March Sees +4% Already

I’ve just realized I forgot to do the monthly move post for February. Not only has Feb been a good month for the markets with a 3% move, March till the 7th ...

Premium: More Green Shoots: Nifty Breaks Through All Time Highs

This is an archive for premium subscribers, sent on March 7, 2014. Markets have gone berserk, as you might have noticed. The day after it hit an all time high, ...

Nifty At All Time High, Third Time Lucky?

Markets are at a new closing high. The Nifty ended on March 6 at 6401, which breaks through the last highs around this level, which were in 2008 and 2010. ...

Food Inflation: The Government is Not Just Paying More, It is Buying More

In my last post, I mentioned how, according to RBI’s Rajan, NREGA and MSP have driven up prices of food. There’s another thing: we have been buying more ...

How Do You Calculate “Contribution” of any item to Inflation?

Technical note: How do you see the contribution of any individual element to inflation? Assume we have two items, A and B, which are priced at Rs. 100 each, ...

Why Food Inflation Haunts Us, And What We Can Do To Fix It

RBI’s Raghuram Rajan has described why food inflation continues to haunt our inflation expectations over the last few years. Here’s what he says, distilled ...

Premium: Top Performing Stocks in 2014 To Date

This is a post for Capital Mind Premium subscribers, sent on March 4, 2014. Movers and Shakers It’s now two months into 2014, and some stocks have gone ...