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Chart: India’s Q3 2014 GDP At +4.7%
India’s GDP release of last friday showed the December 2013 quarter growing at just 4.7% higher than December 2012. This is lower than the Q2 growth of 4.8%, ...
Economy
India’s Housing Bubble Tops Out? NHB Residex Shows Slowest Rise in House Prices Since 2009
At Capital Mind Premium, last post on the National Housing Bank’s Residex Index, we talked about City level data on housing prices and how it looked like ...
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The VIX Futures Contract: Too Big For Retail
We now have trades on the Volatility Index (VIX) futures. In a more detailed post to Capital Mind Premium, I spoke of how the VIX was constructed, and provided ...
Stocks
Nifty Bids Adieu to JP and Ranbaxy, Adds TechM and United Spirits
The NSE has changed the constituents of the Nifty from March 28, 2014. JP Associates is being replaced with Tech Mahindra Ranbaxy is being replaced with United ...
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Optionalysis: The Deep OTM Strangle Strategy
One of the big option strategies in recent times have been the itch to write option strangles. Many Portfolio Management Services and independent traders have ...
Foundations
Macronomics: Bringing a Nuclear Missile to a Gun Fight, and Other Tales of QE
For Capital Mind Premium subscribers only, sent on 24 Feb 2014. This piece introduces Rohit Shenoy, who’ll talk to us today about the Quantitative Easing ...
General
Mt. Gox Shuts Shop After Massive Theft, Worried BitCoin Industry Joins Hands
Once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, has shut down after a massive theft of BitCoin due to a technical glitch. Bloomberg says more than $390 ...
Economy
Among EMs, India Sees Least Interest in Buying Real Estate
In the brilliant Credit Suisse Emerging Market Survey 2014, a question was asked (among others) to people in emerging markets, about whether they would buy ...
General
Innovative Gold Smugglers (Who Got Caught)
After the gold import restrictions and heavy import duty by India on gold, we’ve seen a massive increase in gold smuggling. Here are some innovative ways ...
Economy