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Economy
Feb 18 2009: Inflation at 3.92%
Inflation data is out. It’s now at 3.92%, a 1.5 year low. The all-time low is 3.07% on 13 October 2007. But look at the slope at that time – there ...
Charts & Analysis
SBI's "Teaser" rates
SBI offers home loans for a year at 8%: In a move that may trigger a rate war, State Bank of India on Sunday said it would charge 8 per cent interest on new ...
Charts & Analysis
Tata Capital NCDs: High "Construction Equipment" Loans
Tata Capital is advertising its new issue of Non Convertible Debentures heavily. Basic data: Issue size: 500 cr. (lower end) to 1500 cr. (upper end). Dates: ...
Commentary
SEC finds another fraud: Sanford, $8 bn
Bloomberg: U.S. regulators accused R. Allen Stanford of running a “massive, ongoing fraud” while selling about $8 billion in certificates of deposit ...
Charts & Analysis
Gilt yields go to 6.48%, a new low [on Price]
The 10 year, 2018 bond ended at a yield of 6.48%, which is a new recent low in the price (111.6). Reasons, they say, is that the government needs to borrow a ...
Economy
Gold touches $950 an ounce, Rs. 15,000 crossed
Gold prices touched 15,000 rupees in India for 10 grams and $950 abroad (for an ounce). GoldBEES, a Gold ETF I own, traded at 1500 on the NSE. This is a ...
Commentary
China: Loans diverted to stocks, but not real estate
Bloomberg: Chinese loans diverted to stocks As much as 660 billion yuan ($97 billion) may have been converted by companies into term deposits or used to buy ...
General
CLO Defaults have “systemic risk”
FT: S&P sees new systemic risk in CLO defaults Standard & Poor’s has highlighted that many collateralised loan obligations – which pool leveraged ...
Commentary