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91 Day T-Bills Return To Single Digits

Every Wednesday 91 day T-Bills are auctioned, and after Rajan’s first RBI policy, we have a moderation in T-Bill auction yields to 9.7% from the recent highs ...
Foundations

All the Financial Advice You’ll Ever Need

Sometimes, we over complicate matters, especially in this blog where I will tell you I invest in ultra short term funds because the yield curve is flattening ...
Premium

RBI Bans 0% EMI Loans, Says Customers Must Be Told Real Interest Rate

Now I look really ignorant, so I will first say, Sorry. And apologies to Economic Times. I had said in an earlier post that ET was probably inventing the story ...
Fixed Income

RBI Will Remain the Lender of First Resort

RBI has promised liquidity to the system: Beginning with the Mid-Quarter Review of September 2013, the Reserve Bank of India began a calibrated unwinding of ...
Commentary

NSEL: Anand Rathi Raided, Money Laundering, Auditors Flee, Yet Another Default

Since many of you are bored of NSEL, I’ll stop writing about it NO! This is a matter of serious outrage and we can’t let these fellows go scot free! ...
Charts & Analysis

Nifty Stocks Above DMA Shows Potential Fall

A proprietary indicator I’ve developed, called the “Net stocks above the 20 DMA” is showing a potential steep fall in the index. This is calculated by ...
Commentary

Will There Be No More 0% EMI Schemes?

It seems – and we don’t know this for sure – that RBI is not happy about 0% EMI schemes. In these schemes, people pay on a regular basis ...
Fixed Income

Biggest Bond Devolvement of 2013 at Rs. 4,000 cr. Makes This the Worst in 12 Years

The 15,000 bond auction devolved over 25% today – that is, there weren’t enough bidders on the bonds and primary dealers HAD to buy it (they had ...
Commentary

Real Estate: Builders Not Delivering, High Unsold Inventory and Then, Defaults

In real estate, for you on a Monday, is not good news. They aren’t finishing their projects, says Mansi Taneja at Business Standard. Till July this year, of ...
Commentary

My name is Ben, and I’m a Central Banker.

Five years ago, the economy was in trouble. We decided that the best way for the economy was for us to buy all this mortgage stuff that other people didn’t ...