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2013 Q2 GDP at 4.8%, Hides Two Factors That Are Temporary
GDP for Q2 2013 ending September, is at 4.8% in real terms. This is marginally better than the Jun 2013 quarter, when real growth hit 4.4%. But that hides the ...
Charts & Analysis
Monthly Return Charts Since 1994 Point To Great Dec, While Nov Returns -2%
November closes slightly negative for the broad indexes, with performance of the large caps flattening out. The Nifty lost 2% in the month, taking the annual ...
Charts & Analysis
FIIs Net Buy 2,261 Cr. in Nov Till 26th
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been buying equities while selling debt. Till 26th November they bought around Rs. 8,000 cr. ($1.3 billion) in the ...
General
Banking: SMS Alert Charts, Fingerprint Scanners on Card Machines, Use Grocery Stores as ATM
SMS Alerts on Usage Basis Only Banks use SMS alerts to tell you about your account balance, any transactions and so on. These alerts are now charged for by ...
Premium
Macronomics: The Residex, a Housing Price Index, In Charts
The National Housing Bank (NHB) publishes an index of housing prices, called the Residex. This is available per-city, and has about 26 cities in there. We have ...
General
Real Estate Inventories Rising, Prices Under Pressure
Commercial Real estate inventories are rising, says Bloomberg. Vacancy rates in the financial center of Mumbai and capital New Delhi topped 20 percent in the ...
Stocks
Bharti Won’t Be Selling That DTH Stake
Earlier this year, I wrote about how Bharti Airtel supposedly “intended” to sell its DTH arm, in a post titled “If you want to do, do. Then say.”. The ...
General
The BitCoinundrum: To Buy or Not to Buy BitCoin?
In recent times there has been the emergence of a new financial “thing”, the Bitcoin. This is a new virtual currency, and addresses some of the problems ...
Commentary
The Iran Nuclear Deal Could Derail Rupee Deal, Hurt Other Trade; Helps Shippers and Refiners
Iran has entered into a deal with the US and other powers, allowing it some leeway on previously imposed sanctions in exchange for curtailing its nuclear ...
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