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Foundations
Consumer Prices: A Better Inflation Indicator
At Yahoo, I write on Consumer Prices: A Better Inflation Indicator "Inflation is when you pay Rs. 100 for the fifty rupee haircut you used to get for 25 ...
Charts & Analysis
Your Friend, The Trend, Is Up
Every week I feel the market has peaked. And every week it goes a little bit higher. The trend is consciously up, and the market is trying to work through the ...
Economy
IIP for Dec 2011 Up 1.8%
India’s Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for December has been released. The index is up 1.8% over last year. This should end a dismal year in for ...
Charts & Analysis
Chart Of The Day: The Dollar Retreats
Today’s chart is the huge move in the INR – largely on the back of RBI selling dollars, and some FII money returning. The 200 DMA is at 47.74 and will ...
Fixed Income
NHAI Bond Yields
The recent issue of tax-free bonds – that is, the interest is tax free – by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has listed on the NSE. There ...
Charts & Analysis
Nifty EPS Growth Slows To 26 Month Low
The Nifty Earnings Per Share (EPS) Growth – as revealed by the National Stock Exchange – is slowing. We are again diverging from the P/E which has now ...
Foundations
Dynamic Bond Funds
I’ve had two questions on email recently about Dynamic Bond Funds. The concept of Dynamic Bond Funds needs an understanding that bonds are complicated, way ...
Premium
NPAs Hidden By Restructuring
Tamal Bandyopadhyay has a great article on the growing NPA situation in banks. While many public sector lender NPAs have gone up, the NPAs in private banks ...
Commentary
Sahara Exits Cricket: Posturing Or Court Order?
The Subrata Roy led Sahara group, in a press release, has decided to sever all ties with the BCCI, India’s leading private cricket management body. They will ...
Charts & Analysis
Chart Of The Day: 40 Years Of Gold
Gold Returns have been wayward over the last 40 years, and I present to you, as the Chart of the Day/Week, Gold Price History in India since 1971. (Source: ...
