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Stocks
Tata Motors Hits an All Time High at 967
In a flat market, it’s always useful to look at stocks making new highs. I’ve seen a lot of action in the small and mid caps recently, but in the last few ...
Charts & Analysis
India PMI dips slightly to 61.9
Markit’s released India’s HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index for July 2010. The index fell to 61.9 in July, down slightly from 62.8 in June. Remember, the ...
Fixed Income
RBI – Banks Selling “Hold To Maturity” Securities
RBI’s latest notification: In terms of our Master Circular No. DBOD.BP.BC.18/21.04.141/2010-11 dated July 1, 2010 on ‘Prudential Norms for Classification, ...
General
Currency Options, Base Rate, Powers of Time
You can trade currency options, says the RBI. Banks ask for “sunset” clause on base rate. Don’t be fooled. They only want to attract people who earlier ...
Premium Portfolio
How does Option “Exercise” work?
Reader M writes in: I read your article “Of Options and Choices” posted today. It would be helpful if you can through some more light on American Options ...
Opinion
Of Options and Choices
My latest at Yahoo is about the Options Market, and volatility assumptions: When the headlines go “Market volumes more than 100,000 crores!” it ...
Economy
Deflation is Really Bad: Or, What Is Krugman On?
Paul Krugman explains why deflation is bad: So first of all: when people expect falling prices, they become less willing to spend, and in particular less ...
Foundations
Inflation Adjusted Investment
Manish has an excellent article on Jago Investor: How Inflation eats your money. What I was thinking – yes, you could save a constant amount today to try and ...
General
VIX at or near lows
So the VIX – NSE’s volatility index – is very close to all time lows. With the indices having not moved much this entire year, is volatility gone? Does ...
General