In the 2013-14 Macroeconomic Policy the RBI has decided to cut rates by 25 basis points (0.25%), bring the repo rate down to 7.25% and reverse repo to 6.25%. ...
The HSBC Markit Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is at 51.0 for April, the lowest since November 2011. Remember that anything about 50 is “expansion” and ...
Six months after their “fat finger” trade in October 2012 (Read: The Flash Crash: Fat Finger or Algo, Emkay Must Pay) when the market fell nearly 15% on a ...
When you hear comparisons of the Nifty with another investment, a mutual fund, or an insurance policy or such, you tend to look at their “outperformance” ...
When you read that headline, you’re thinking – Damn, Even Deepak’s into headline bait. Maybe I am. Maybe I’m not. But bear with me, this gets better. I ...
I was a mentor at a “Lean Startup Machine” conference recently, where people got together, formed teams and do a first layer of customer validation (“Get ...
One more sad story that emerged last week was a chit fund that went bust: The Saradha Group. Taking money from depositors all over the eastern states of Assam ...
Banking Statistics often throw up interesting statistics. Going through the latest "Quarterly Statistics of Credit and Deposits” provided by the RBI ...
Indian markets have rallied substantially in the face of falling crude and falling gold. This is on the assumption that India will have a much lower current ...
Reliance posted results for Q4 2013 yesterday and it wasn’t quite that exciting for me. Market reports were that they “beat estimates” but I think I ...