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SEBI bans HDFC MF AVP Nilesh Kapadia for Front-Running
In a detailed investigation, SEBI found Nilesh Kapadia, AVP-Equities at HDFC Mutual Fund guilty of front-running trades that the fund was going to take: The ...
Startups, Stocks
TTK Prestige: Pure Speculation?
A couple of readers warned me that all was not well in the rise of TTK Prestige I had earlier mentioned. Look at the deliverable quantity, they said. And here ...
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Links: Satyajit Das, Dilbert Investing, Asian Bubbles
Satyajit Das: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide, at Naked Capitalism. The Global Crisis is about to get worse. Das is a great read. Scott Adams, “Betting on ...
Startups, Stocks
TTK Prestige: New 52 Week High, Huge Volume
The recent result announcements were mindblowing. Their Trailing Twelve Month Earnings per Share was Rs. 46, up from about 20 last year. They make pressure ...

Opinion
On Yahoo: Riding the Equity Wave
My latest at Yahoo is a column on equity investing. Some people are afraid of the stock market – it’s a gambling den, they say. Stocks move for no ...
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Direct Tax Code Changes – Life Is Better.
The Income tax department has recently announced some proposed changes to the Direct Tax Code, as a discussion paper. I can’t seem to find the actual DTC – ...
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HSBC Credit Card and Plat5 offer: Beware!
I have been getting calls from HSBC about their “Premier Circle” program where they offer: Free 3 day/2 night stay at certain hotels all over India Two ...
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Inflation (WPI) at 10.16%
Inflation for May 2008 came to 10.16%. Unfortunately, the March data was revised – from an index value of 250.8 (earlier reported), the value was changed to ...
Stocks
RCOM Short Term Analysis
RCOM has some good things going for it. And look at a technical chart: The stock’s up a further 2.3% at 183, as I write. Resistance is around the 192 levels, ...
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