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Commentary
Two pieces of bad U.S. News: Unemployment and Mortgages In Trouble
Unemployment has reached 6.7% in the US, with November showing a drop of 533,000 jobs. Over 1.25 million jobs in the last three months have been lost, and the ...
Economy
Petrol prices cut by Rs. 5, Diesel by Rs. 2
As of Friday midnight, four hours from now, the prices of Petrol and Diesel in India will be down by Rs. 5 and 2, respectively. A cut in diesel prices is ...
Foundations
F&O Course: Has to be Dec 13
Due to some unscheduled laziness the Futures and Options course has had to be moved to December 13. I wanted to do it tomorrow but for this WiZiQ will have to ...
Stocks
FMPs can't be redeemed, have to trade on exchanges
SEBI’s new ruling: 3. It was decided that no early exit will be allowed in any scheme of Mutual Fund in the nature of a close ended scheme. The schemes ...
Commentary
Rate cuts: ECB does 0.75%
The European Central Bank has cut interest rates by 75 basis points, to 2.5%. This follows the UK rate cut by 1%, and most other European and Chinese cuts. And ...
General
ICICI FMPs rated AAAf – What does that mean?
Business Standard: 35 FMPs of ICICI Prudential AMC rated AAAf by Crisil Thirty-five Fixed Maturity Plans (FMP) of ICICI Prudential AMC, one of the leading ...
Stocks
SoS Update: Cover HDIL
I’ve covered HDIL in the Short Only strategy as it crossed my stop loss (84). I have covered it at the close (91.9). All other shorts still intact, and ...
Economy
Inflation data delayed – Why are we surprised?
ET says “Inflation data delayed, no reasons given“. How surprising is that? For a long time, Inflation data would come out at 12 noon on Friday. ...
Stocks
Revised Market Lots for futures, from March 2009
NSE has revised the market lot sizes for all futures/options contracts starting March 2009. The new lot sizes correspond to the 2 lakh contract size ...
Stocks