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Economy
April 2013 PMI At Lowest Since Nov 2011
The HSBC Markit Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is at 51.0 for April, the lowest since November 2011. Remember that anything about 50 is “expansion” and ...
General
Emkay Has To Pay For Fat-Finger Trade, Says NSE
Six months after their “fat finger” trade in October 2012 (Read: The Flash Crash: Fat Finger or Algo, Emkay Must Pay) when the market fell nearly 15% on a ...
Charts & Analysis
The Total Return Index: Nifty Including Dividends
When you hear comparisons of the Nifty with another investment, a mutual fund, or an insurance policy or such, you tend to look at their “outperformance” ...
Foundations
Three Rookie Investing Tips For Making Truckloads of Money
When you read that headline, you’re thinking – Damn, Even Deepak’s into headline bait. Maybe I am. Maybe I’m not. But bear with me, this gets better. I ...
Startups
Five Myths of Being A Financially “Lean” Startup
I was a mentor at a “Lean Startup Machine” conference recently, where people got together, formed teams and do a first layer of customer validation (“Get ...
Stocks
Suckered: Saradha Goes Bust and Frauds Depositors
One more sad story that emerged last week was a chit fund that went bust: The Saradha Group. Taking money from depositors all over the eastern states of Assam ...
Premium
30% of All Bank Deposits are in Mumbai and Delhi
Banking Statistics often throw up interesting statistics. Going through the latest "Quarterly Statistics of Credit and Deposits” provided by the RBI ...
Commentary
How Much do the Crude and Gold Price Crash Help India’s Current Account Deficit?
Indian markets have rallied substantially in the face of falling crude and falling gold. This is on the assumption that India will have a much lower current ...
Stocks
Chart: Reliance Posts So-So Results in Mar 2013
Reliance posted results for Q4 2013 yesterday and it wasn’t quite that exciting for me. Market reports were that they “beat estimates” but I think I ...
Charts & Analysis