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Fixed Income
Chart Of The Day: The 10 Yr Bond Crosses 9%
Data from CCIL shows that last Friday, the 10 year bond yield inched above 9%, which is inching towards the high of 9.35% set in July 08. (Note: that was just ...
Foundations
The Pricing of Options: MV Chronicle
The Latest MarketVision Chronicle has a piece about the Pricing of Options: (Registration required, free) There are two parts to an option – the intrinsic ...
Stocks
KFA Down And Nearly Out?
It looks like we have a victim of leverage, in Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) Kingfisher, which is partly owned by brewery tycoon Vijay Mallya, has canceled more ...
Economy
September 2011 IIP at 1.81%
The Index of Industrial Production has showed a miserably low growth of 1.81% since last year. But I don’t trust this data so we can’t read too much into ...
Charts & Analysis
Chart Of The Day: 182 Day T-Bill Sells at 8.95%
Every week, the RBI conducts auctions selling 91 day T-Bills and in alternate weeks, 182 day and 364 day T-Bills. These are quite short term and is part of the ...
Premium
Moody’s Downgrades Indian Banks
…and the bank index fell nearly 3% yesterday. Moody’s, which is a rating agency and therefore likely to be completely clueless, took the Indian banking ...
Foundations
Q&A: Futures Versus Cash
Suhail Kazi writes in on the derivatives post with a few questions that I thought belong in a separate post. a) Is there a T+2 (or other) settlement period for ...
Foundations
The Derivative Alternative
(From my article at Yahoo) While derivatives have been called weapons of mass destruction and worse, they can provide alternative methods to participate in the ...
Charts & Analysis
Chart Of The Day: UTI Sunder Goes Berserk
The Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) named UTI Sunder, that’s supposed to track the Nifty. But the price on the exchange seems to have varied wildly from the NAV ...
General