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Opinion
S&P gets wiser, Realpoint moves in to fill the "gap"
Time for some rating agency news. S&P threatens to cut CMBS ratings, so people are rushing to Realpoint (news by Reuters), another yet-to-be-approved CMBS ...
Stocks
DLF says house prices might be going up
Mint: DLF sees property prices going up DLF Ltd, India’s largest listed real estate firm, sees signs of recovery in the country’s beaten down residential ...
Stocks
RIL's Subsidiary Is Bankrupt
BS: RIL’s German subsidiary files for insolvency RIL sources said Trevira saw losses amounting to millions of dollars in 2008, especially after the slump ...
Economy
Inflation Graph: Keeping above zero, but how long?
Inflation’s holding (or “being held”) just above the zero line, over the last few weeks. So much for my prediction of negative rates! ...
General
SoS Update: Nothing yet, New positions will come soon
The Short Only Strategy has not had any transactions for a while, for good reason – the market has strength! But it looks juicy for the next round, and ...
Stocks
GDP up 6.7% but Nifty EPS down 9%
According to Bloomberg, India’s economy grew “more than estimated” at 5.8 percent last quarter, to take the annual growth in the last four ...
Stocks
NSE changes lot sizes for 144 stocks
After the sudden upmove, a number of stocks have gone so far north that their lot sizes, which are usually calibrated to about 2 lakhs worth contracts each, ...
Economy
NPS (New Pension Scheme) has "hidden" charges
Sanjay Bhargava points me to this livemint article: India’s New Pension System (NPS) promises the lowest fund management charges. But a closer look at the ...
Economy
Hiding ULIP Commissions: Riding on Confusing Customers
A friend recently told me about Birla Sun Life’s Dream Plan and how they had “zero commissions”. The skeptic that I am of greedy ULIPs and ...
Economy