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Prem Watsa's Annual Report: 25% p.a. over 25 years!
Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings has published its annual report, and it makes for great reading. (Thanks Lovesh Vashist) They’ve grown ...
Foundations
Budget Summary, Tax Sop-Madness and More: The MarketVision Chronicle – Mar 05, 2011
On March 5, the MarketVision Chronicle, which I edit, talks about the budget, rants about tax sops and gives you all at MarketVision and in the outside world. ...
Economy
Primary Articles Inflation on 19 Feb 2011: Down to 14.85%
A sharp drop was seen in primary articles inflation over last year, with the 19 Feb number going to 14.85%. You see that spike in the middle? That’s the ...
Foundations
MV Chronicle: Term Insurance, Q&A and more..
In the latest MarketVision Chronicle (Feb 26 2011): Read about Term Insurance, Market Q&A, and all else at MarketVision. (Note: You have to register, and ...
Economy
India Composite PMI goes to 61 from 59.6 in Feb
HSBC India Composite PMI has gone to 61.0, up from January’s 59.6. Services has strongly increased the PMI – the composite is a mix of the ...
Opinion
HSBC India Manufacturing PMI: Up at 57.9
HSBC’s India Purchase Managers’ Index (PMI) is up to 57.9 from last month’s 56.8. The PMI is an early indicator, which quantifies the orders ...
Economy
Budget: Mutual Fund Dividends To Companies at 30% Dividend Tax
Now for an interesting hidden (i.e. not yet spoken about) aspect of the budget. According to the finance bill, any income distributed by debt funds to ...
Stocks
Saudi Takes Up Libyan Shortfall, RIL benefits
A fallout of the Libyan Crisis is that Saudi Arabia is taking up the slack. Except, it can’t easily replace Libyan Crude. “Libya is a producer of ...
Economy
NPS Gets a Tax Saving Fillip in Budget2011
The Central Government pays 10% to the National Pension Scheme (NPS) for all its employees, with employees putting in another 10%. Even private employers may ...
Economy