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Mahindra Holidays EPS drops 63%
Club Mahindra (Mahindra Holidays) announced results on the 26th and the stock’s been seeing bad days. They highlight an occupancy ratio of 85%, but ...
Foundations
On Yahoo: Credit Default Swaps
I write on Yahoo about Credit Default Swaps: A week of fantastic weather and gridlocked traffic in Bangalore makes the old garden-city-dweller in me long for ...
Commentary
Designation of Assessing Officer or Ward/Circle
When filling income tax forms, there’s an entry for the Designation of the Assessing Officer and Ward/Circle. This might be irrelevant for you, but if you do ...
Economy
RBI raises Repo rate by 25 bps to 5.75%
The Reserve Bank of India in its quarterly credit policy meet raised repo rates to 5.75% and reverse repo rates to 4.5%. Repo is what banks pay to borrow from ...
Stocks
Bharti-Zain in Top 100 Viewed Tableaus
A long time back I had done an analysis of the Bharti-Zain Deal, using a web software called Tableau. That analysis is in their top 100 viewed visualizations ...
General
Market Cap as % of GDP
Barry Ritholtz: The US stock market capitalization (NYSE+Nasdaq) has gone higher than US GDP. I have some limited data for India – for the last three years. ...
Economy
Reader Comments: Cannot Offset Long-term Capital Losses
Thanks very much for all your comments on the earlier post about the Direct Tax Code keeping equity gains tax free till Mar 2011. I’d then asked if ...
Opinion
On Yahoo: Four Investment Myths Busted
I write in at Yahoo: Four Investment Myths Busted. We’re led to believe various myths about investing, and some of them fly in the face of investing ...
General
Links: Regulatory Oversight, and Oversight of Regulators
It seems the Finance Ministry knew about SEBI’s note to the insurance companies a full week before it happened. Wow. The rest was politics. And Ajay Shah ...
Economy