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Letter to PFRDA : Why go back to Requiring Rating for Bonds

The PFRDA seems to have ditched the Expert Group. In it’s call for comments, I notice that they have both an incorrect entry (of what the Expert Group ...

S&P wants rating agencies to be regulated

Bloomberg: S&P calls for greater regulation on credit ratings. (Hat tip: The Big Picture) Standard & Poor’s called for more regulation of ...

RBI cuts rates by 0.5%

RBI has cut interest rates by 0.5%. The repo rate is now 5% and reverse repo at 3.5%. The 10 year bond yield had spiked back to 6.46% after a few days of ...

Buffett's Annual Letter 2008

Warren Buffet’s Annual Report is here. Always fun to read, and interesting titbits emerge. This has been the worst absolute year for Berkshire Hathaway ...

Bad News For the Week

A lot of consolidation from Twitter but here goes. Let’s just look at the bad news of this week. US News US Unemployment initial claims at 667K, up 36K ...

SoS: Rollovers, Changes

For the Short-Only Strategy, a pretty big rollover this time but I’ve not had to update the sheet. A number of lot sizes have changed as well, must ...

Hail the Pension Policy for Making Rating Agencies Irrelevant

PFRDA has released the Investment Regulations for the New Pension Scheme for the informal sector (Sorry for the google link, the original link doesn’t ...

Using our Forex Reserves to Fund Our Fiscal Deficit

So, S&P is thinking of downgrading our country based on the increased fiscal deficit and they’re hitting our banks too. This gets me really pissed ...

Barcamp Delhi 6, This Weekend

I’m going to Barcamp Delhi 6 this weekend (28-Feb to 1-Mar). The event is usually a deep technical discussion but it seems the format this time is more ...

Good RBS, Bad RBS

Royal Bank of Scotland is splitting into two: The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to be split into a “good bank” and “bad bank” in a dramatic rescue ...