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Fixed Income
Liquid Funds NAVs Fall for the First Time in 5 Years
Liquid Fund Investors have taken it on the chin with the fall in bond prices yesterday. Across the spectrum, for the first time since 2008, Liquid Funds have ...
Premium
Bank Stocks Tumble 4.8% on RBI News
Investors in Bank Stocks must be feeling horrible as the Bank Nifty dropped 4.8% on the news that RBI will effectively raise rates. Stocks like IndusInd and ...
Fixed Income
Government Bonds Fall 1% to 4% on the Liquidity Squeeze
Mutual Funds are going to have it rough in the next few days. Bond prices have crashed after the liquidity squeeze introduced by RBI late evening on the 15th. ...
Economy
Banks Borrow a Record Rs. 2.16 Trillion From Repo, CBLO Rates Crash From 9% to 1%
The day has seen some insanity in the money markets. After RBI’s epic raising of marginal rates and curtailing of liquidity, banks have realised that the new ...
Economy
Chart: How Much Have Banks Borrowed From RBI Daily?
How much does yesterday’s sudden late night liquidity squeeze impact the markets? Let’s take a look at overnight repo borrowing from the RBI, and the 1% of ...
Economy
RBI Effectively Hikes Rates 2%, Sets limits on Repo usage.
At 10PM, way past RBI’s bedtime, there shows up an innocuous press release from the RBI. It has effectively slashed liquidity with (nearly) immediate effect, ...
Charts & Analysis
WPI Inflation for Jun 2013 at 4.86%
Wholesale Price Index (WPI) showed inflation of 4.86% today, while everyone was left wondering what the government is smoking and if they could get any of it. ...
Fixed Income
Retail Investors Are More Interested in Debt than Equity, Investor Count Falling Since 2009
Since 2009, retail individual investors seem to have lost interest in mutual funds. AMFI data shows the total number of folio numbers to have reduced 10% since ...
Startups
The Failure Of Financial Web Startups
This is going to be a long post. Investopresto, a finance portal, shut shop a couple of days back. They follow other illustrious startups to create financial ...
Economy