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Economy
Budget 2010 Quick Summary
Pranab Mukherjee presented the budget for 2010-11 today. Some notes, to be expanded upon later: Taxes, which will interest most of you: Tax slabs changed: Upto ...
General
Bharti-Zain Deal Analysis
The Bharti Zain deal is old news now. A quick look at the Zain September 2009 data – nine months of the year only – gives us a view of what Bharti is ...
General
What Am I Buying? FDC
A commenter has asked a very valid question: Deepak, you tell us what NOT to do, but what should we be buying? The answer is not: Gold, Bonds or staying in ...
Commentary
Jim Chanos on China
Chanos is a short-seller, and was known to have shorted Enron before it’s collapse. While shorters are usually blamed for everything, Chanos has been right ...
Mutual Funds
Monthly Income Plans Versus Fixed Deposit (Archive)
Updated 25 April 2011: Given the popularity of the post I decided to redo the data until today and see how MIPs have fared. It seems that the data I had was ...
General
Mint’s Budget Meet Notes
I was invited to the Mint Budget Meet in the Oberoi, Delhi yesterday. Not that I’m important. I submitted an entry the folks at Mint liked, and I felt great ...
General
ICICI Bank – Past EPS Growth is Ridiculously Low
ICICI Bank’s last quarter results were slightly disastrous by most standards, and therefore the stock markets decided to ignore them completely. I nearly did ...
Stocks
Bharti Airtel At Important Support Line
Bharti Airtel decided to acquire Kuwaiti telco Zain’s African Assets for $10.7 billion – nearly 50,000 crores. Since then the stock has tanked: There are ...
Economy