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IIP is up 3.56% in Feb

India’s new IIP data was released recently and here you are with the charts: As you can see, the problem is mining: the growth is just 0.59%. There is a ...

How Media Plays Statistics

XKCD, the great sage of our times, has it absolutely right. (You need to carefully look at the three rows of similar looking panels below – casual ...

Speak Asia: Scam or For Real?

(Updated 16/5/2011: See Links Section) Another Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scheme called Speak Asia is now doing the rounds. With big ads on TV, newspapers and ...

MV Chronicle: The Beast Called Volume and more…

In the April 9, 2011 edition of the MarketVision Chronicle, I write about The Beast Called Volume: (Registration required, free) With the incredible match last ...

At Yahoo: Statistically Losing The World Cup

I write at Yahoo: Statistically Losing The World Cup (Reproduced in Entirety) “No century-scorer has ever been on the losing side of a World Cup ...

Q: Why Can't MFs Pay Dividends From "Unit Premium Reserve"?

In an email, asks: I was reading recently about rule change in March 2010 forbidding equity funds from paying dividends out of the unit premium reserve. My ...

A Short Take on DLF (Link)

In a recent Conversations piece, I spoke with Ramki about a few stocks, and in them was DLF. There has been a dangerous upmove in DLF since (and we were ...

Liquor 40-60 % costlier in Mumbai

Thanks to Madhu Menon ( @madmanweb ), I found a TOI link on higher liquor costs in Mumbai. Talk of high spirits — beer and hard liquor will cost 40-60% more ...

At Pragati: Open Up The Rupee

Last month, I wrote for Pragati on issues with Paypal recently and why the real solution is to Open Up The Rupee: PayPal, the company that pioneered payments ...

Indian Private Banks – Most Expensive in Asia

A CLSA report I got by email recently had this graph which stunned me:   Sure, some of our biggest private banks (HDFC Bank, Axis) are actually growing ...