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ICICI in more trouble?

From Sify, in March 2008: ICICI Bank’s investments in credit derivatives could be four times previous estimates at $6 billion, analysts said on ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...