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Results: Bad for Nifty EPS, Mixed bag though

Some results are out, and all Nifty stocks would have announced their Q1 results by Aug 1. Here’s a primer: Bad Stuff: ICICI Bank down 24% on EPS. (Yeah ...
Commentary

Internet Usage Statistics Gone Wild

So the latest report in the list of the evergreen Indian Internet statistics is out: The average Indian Internet user visited the Internet 25 times during the ...
Commentary

Remarkable Upmove, but the credit crisis isn’t over.

Firstly – fantastic upmove. In the last week, the markets have gone up some ridiculous 18%. Which is good, because a bounce was expected. There are a ...
General

Spammers Note: You will not be published

Some random idiots are posting spam comments on this blog. They do not understand two things: Spamming 60 posts does not provide a better chance to be ...
Commentary

Proposed Rupee Futures in a Regulatory Vice

Vikram Murarka on the upcoming rupee futures: The lot size has been kept at a mere $1,000, which is just about Rs 42,500 at today’s rate….To put things ...
General

Innovative Uses for Annual Reports

Shrinidhi Hande has an interesting take on what his investment strategy is: (Hat Tip: Anand Gadiyar): With disappointment I looked at the pile of annual ...
Commentary

The Scorecard of Predictions and Statements

This weekend I thought I’d go back to my posts long long back – my patience ran out at 2007 – and see if I had made grand and silly ...
Commentary

Dead Cat Bounce

The Sensex closed above 13,500 and the Nifty near 4100 today. Things seem to look good, and suddenly you will start getting calls from brokerage houses and see ...
General

The Fall of the Indian Retail Mall

From DNA: Plunging sales see retailers quit malls: ETAM, the French lingerie brand that has a joint venture with Kishore Biyani’s Future Group, recently ...
General

ICICI in more trouble?

From Sify, in March 2008: ICICI Bank’s investments in credit derivatives could be four times previous estimates at $6 billion, analysts said on ...