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Commentary
Argentina, Monetizing Debt, Insurer Dirty Play (Links)
Argentina is in some sort of a soup. A US court ruled that they must pay bondholders who "held out" against a debt restructing plan in 2005 at the ...
Commentary
What I learnt at Traders Carnival
I presented at the Traders Carnival on Friday. Lots of learning, from some great traders present and overall, the impact to me has been of a yearning to return ...
Economy
Bank Credit Growth Slows and Crowding-Out Effect is Visible
Bank Credit growth as of October 5 has slumped to 15.9%, which is close to a near term low. Bank credit is all the credit that isn’t to the government, ...
Commentary
Thoughts of a Corporate Consultant – Part XIV
The last three months have been crazy. I’ve been consulting – all day – at a banking software company, doing things like creating PPTs, ...
Charts & Analysis
WPI Inflation for Sep 2012 at 10 month high, 7.81%
Wholesale Price Inflation was at 7.81% in Sep 2012, the highest in 10 months. Remember, diesel prices were increased in mid-September, and about half that ...
Fixed Income
Guest Blog: Insurance Funds Should Invest in All Classes of Bonds
This is a guest post by Karthik Shashidhar, who’s both a good friend and a great quant and data guy. He writes in on a recent IRDA directive. Earlier ...
Commentary
The Flash Crash: Fat Finger or Algo, Emkay Must Pay
At 9:50 AM on Friday morning, when the markets were expected to keep going up forever because we have new reform agendas, the markets went curiously the other ...
Charts & Analysis
20 DMA Custom Indicator Not Yet OverBought
I use an indicator to figure out if the market is overbought or oversold. This simply takes the number of Nifty stocks above their 20 Day Moving Averages ...
Charts & Analysis
India's September PMI Shows Expansion at 55.0
The HSBC Market Purchasing Manager’s Index for September is at 55.0, a marginal increase over August’s 54.3. This is a composite indicator ...
Charts & Analysis