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Charts & Analysis
Monthly Moves: Consolidation in March
The Great Monthly Move post is here! A small negative month follows the great Jan+Feb story. And the Sensex: And yes, a great Jan + Feb + March too, the best ...
Mutual Funds
Markets Down 10% in FY 2011-12
After the financial year 2011-12, where do we stand? The market is down about 10% (from 5833 in March 2011 to 5295). There was a huge spike in the last week of ...
Economy
Defining India’s Poor
I write at Yahoo on the recent poverty report: India may be a poor country but we all differ on what "poor" is. There was a furore last year when a ...
Economy
Budget 2012 Expects To Cut Petrol Subsidy 35%
Apparently, in this budget, we are going to cut the petroleum subsidy by a mind-boggling 35%. By nearly 25,000 crores (Rs. 250 billion *) From the budget ...
Commentary
Rupay Kicks Off with Debit Cards
The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) has started Rupay, a domestic card payment network. NPCI already is at the back-end of the India wide bank ...
Economy
The Vodafone Overreach and the Failure of Trust
From my Yahoo Piece: Vodafone’s Dutch Subsidiary bought a company in the Cayman Islands, in a transaction paid for in foreign currency. Vodafone is a ...
Economy
The Negative List: Service Tax Exemptions in a Nutshell
Archiving my Yahoo Piece: The Service Tax provisions in the budget detail out 17 areas on which you will not be charged a tax, and for absolutely everything ...
Economy
What the Finance Minister Didn’t Say
Archiving my Yahoo Piece: Pranab Mukherjee has presented a budget that has left everyone wondering what really happened and whether we should give it more ...
Startups
FREE E-Book: The Startup Tax in India
I consolidated material from all the posts on the Startup Tax in India and put it into an easy-to-download E-Book (PDF). I hope you like it! Edit: The ...
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