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Greece Is Back, And The VIX Is Low
Greece’s debt is seeing demand destruction of recently unknown sorts. Their two-year bond yields jumped to 13.5%, which is higher than most countries can ...
Economy
This Week: Banks, Credit Growth and Yield Curves
A volatile week on Dalal Street has ended. With the Nifty closing at 5305, the week saw us go all the way down to the 5160 levels and recover from there; FIIs, ...
General
RBI to Banks: Rollover Fixed Deposits Without Penalties
The Reserve Bank of India has told banks that if customers want to pre-close a deposit and take on a new deposit at the same bank, then the bank is not allowed ...
Stocks
Talwalkars IPO: Too Expensive
So the gym chain Talwalkars is going to go public. Notes: They’re raising 78 cr., with 60 lakh shares at an issue price of 123 to 128 rupees. That’s for ...
Economy
RBI Raises Rates and CRR by 0.25%
The Reserve Bank of India today raised the Repo rate to 5.25% and Reverse Repo rate to 3.75%, and increased the Cash Reserve Ratio to 6%. These are all 25 ...
Foundations
Deepak Shenoy Talks: Nifty P/E and EPS Growth, FII Buying and more…
The next in the Deepak Shenoy Talks series: India saw the first down week after 9 continuous up-weeks, from the lows of 4667 on the Nifty. But ...
General
Happenings for Next Week
Goldman Sachs gets sued by the SEC. So they sold a CDO based on a set of mortgages that were specifically chosen by John Paulson, who shorted the ...
Commentary
In Defense of High Commissions
Suresh Sadagopan questions SEBI’s regulatory actions in his article. (HT: Srikanth Meenakshi) By focusing only on investor interests and making the business ...
Foundations
Reader Comment: Is Bajaj Alliance Shield Plus worth it? [NO]
A comment from Raju on my ULIP post: I am NRI.I invested 5 lacs in Bajaj Alliance shield plus plan.Which requires only one payment. And insurance is 1.1 times ...
General