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Reading: Financial Innovation
Susan Thomas has an excellent presentation on why our financial system is practically archaic; the licence raj still exists there and stifles all innovation. ...
Commentary
Abysmal by US standards, Okay by ours
An interesting video: (From Calculated Risk) Such a house should be a steal for us in India – we’re so used to buying houses without cabinets, ...
Charts & Analysis
Dark Pools and Algorithmic Trading
From Economic Times: Dark pools threaten the existence of LSE, NYSE and Euronext: Dark pools, to put it simply, are essentially trading platforms and exchanges ...
Stocks
Infosys Q1 09: Tough Outlook
Infy’s results are out – well actually were out of Friday and the stock got beaten up both in India and the U.S. The stock was down 7% in India and ...
General
Stock Chart Reading: A very quick tutorial
So you first draw lines: (Source) Then you add some cute little dots and some other squiggly stuff below. Write intelligent things next to them. (Source) Then ...
Commentary
FMPs: Waiting for RBI's decision in July
A lot of fixed maturity plans have been opened up as new fund offers in the recent past. Investors are being told to invest, as the return now reaches a ...
Commentary
ABXes going nuts again
The ABX indices seem to be hitting newer and lower lows. ABX is based on the various tranches of CDOs of subprime mortgage loans (see here for more, and thanks ...
Commentary
The Idiot Wave
From Brett Steenbarger’s blog: While rummaging through my attic, I discovered a collection of old manuscripts from Robert Nudnik Idiot, a physiologist ...
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Confessions Of The Number Crunchers
From Rediff: (The confession of a finance professional) Every morning across the country, we the finance professionals begin our work as meticulously as the ...
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