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Watch Out Before You Guarantee a Loan; RBI Says Banks Can Tap You Faster

If you are asked to be a guarantor to a loan, here’s something to think about: RBI has said you will be a wilful defaulter if you refuse to honour the ...
Charts & Analysis

Foreign Investors buy 171K Cr. in Indian Markets in 2014, Second Highest Ever

FII investments have reached the second highest ever, in a calendar year, at 171,000 cr. in 2014. And there are still four months left to go. Most of the money ...
General

Japan-The Land of the Declining GDP?

Japanese GDP data for the 2nd quarter of the year is out and they do not look too good! The Japanese economy has been seeing a steady upswing since its nadir ...
Foundations

Chipkaofication: When You Thulp Stocks On To Greedy Investors At Magnified Prices

We have a new word for: Chipkaofication (noun): The act of making certain investors buy at inflated prices after which the stock price falls big time. ...
Charts & Analysis

Forex Reserves Go To $318 bn, But RBI Sells Govt Bonds to Keep Money Supply Impact Flat

As Forex Reserves Rise to $318 billion, we note that the reserve build-up has flattened a bit. However in the longer term, the current dip could be just noise ...
Premium

The Big Mo Corner: What, exactly, is a Land Bank?

The Big Mo Corner by Mohit Satyanand. (Post exclusively for Capital Mind Premium ...
Charts & Analysis

PMIs Take A Breather in August 2014, Show Growth is Slowing

India’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released by HSBC/Markit, for August 2014, shows a small dip in growth to 51.6 from the 53 in July. However it does ...
Premium

Macronomics: Gold Hurts the Current Account Again, and a BoP Primer

RBI Released data on the Current Account and  shows us some elements that worry us. We’ve gone “negative” net of Gold, again One of the common ...
Stocks

The Fraud by Divya Book Company, Sending Books by VPP

We just registered a Private Limited Company and were warned by our service providers, VakilSearch, that we might receive parcels requiring us to pay to ...
Foundations

What is the “Balance of Payments”?

You’ve heard of the current account deficit and all that. But what, really, is the concept? Here’s a primer. Every country has to deal with other ...