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WTF: Network 18 Pledges Holdings To Help Promoters Increase Stake?

Network 18 has something funny going on. According to me, the company is helping its own promoters buy more shares. Let me put forth some ...
Commentary

GPA is not Title: Supreme Court

A recent supreme court verdict is quite significant, in disallowing “General Power Of Attorney” (GPA) as a legitimate way to transfer property title. ...
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Stocks

Reliance Q2 Results: Good, Not Great

After a reasonable performance by Infosys, Reliance has provided a decent set of numbers. Reliance has the highest weight of any stock in both the Sensex and ...
Stocks

Infosys Q2 results beat expectations: An analysis

(My Yahoo Piece on Infy results) Infosys announced Q2 results (September 2011) today, beating expectations substantially. Revenues were up 8% from last quarter ...
Foundations

Those Squiggly Lines In Stock Charts

From this week’s MarketVision Chronicle, I explain how stock charts are visualized. (Registration required, free) Those Squiggly Lines In Stock Charts Stock ...
Charts & Analysis

Chart Of The Day: Nifty 5 year SIP Returns

Yesterday’s Chart Of The Day showed the Rolling Nifty Return over five years, and in response readers have requested that I check what it means to have done ...
Charts & Analysis

Primary Articles Inflation at 10.6% for Oct 1, 2011

Primary Articles Inflation – released every week – is now at 10.6% for Oct 1, down from the 10.84% the earlier week. The big number – the monthly ...
Charts & Analysis

Chart Of The Day: Nifty’s 5 Year Return at 7.1%

Most of us consider “long term” as anything greater than a year. In that context, not only is five years long term but it’s also the kind of term you ...
Stocks

Sintex Promoters "will buy 4% stake"? Why announce it earlier?

The promoters of Sintex “plan” to buy 4.78% and take their stake up to 40%, says MD Amit Patel in a post-earnings conference call. Speaking to analysts at ...
Charts & Analysis

The Great Melt Up: 7% in a week

Just last week the markets were close to a new 52 week low, with the Nifty looking weak at 4751. With the markets closed on Thursday, it has taken just four ...