Russia has raised interest rates 1.5% after the state invaded Ukraine’s Crimea region, which is seen to be pro-Russian. This rate hike and the tension around ...
India’s GDP release of last friday showed the December 2013 quarter growing at just 4.7% higher than December 2012. This is lower than the Q2 growth of 4.8%, ...
At Capital Mind Premium, last post on the National Housing Bank’s Residex Index, we talked about City level data on housing prices and how it looked like ...
We now have trades on the Volatility Index (VIX) futures. In a more detailed post to Capital Mind Premium, I spoke of how the VIX was constructed, and provided ...
The NSE has changed the constituents of the Nifty from March 28, 2014. JP Associates is being replaced with Tech Mahindra Ranbaxy is being replaced with United ...
One of the big option strategies in recent times have been the itch to write option strangles. Many Portfolio Management Services and independent traders have ...
For Capital Mind Premium subscribers only, sent on 24 Feb 2014. This piece introduces Rohit Shenoy, who’ll talk to us today about the Quantitative Easing ...
Once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, has shut down after a massive theft of BitCoin due to a technical glitch. Bloomberg says more than $390 ...
In the brilliant Credit Suisse Emerging Market Survey 2014, a question was asked (among others) to people in emerging markets, about whether they would buy ...
After the gold import restrictions and heavy import duty by India on gold, we’ve seen a massive increase in gold smuggling. Here are some innovative ways ...