June saw five continuous winning months for the Sensex, the longest winning streak since 2007. In terms of percentages, the Sensex has returned 24% in the five ...
The HSBC Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for Manufacturing, for June 2014 is at 51.5, indicating small expansion and is up from May’s 51.4. ...
June turned out to be a pretty good month for markets. The Nifty went up 5.3%, and ended above 7600. This takes 2014 to a +20.7% year to June, the second best ...
Foreign investors have pumped in a lot of money into Indian markets in the last few months. While we’ve had a flat market the last few days foreign ...
How volatile markets were and how little they are today is visible on a graph of large moves. How many times has Nifty fallen 4% in a single day? 66 times. How ...
After a long time, the market fell more than 1.4% today. This is considered a bad day. It’s a weird world we live in now. It has been 89 days since we have ...
Two things have happened recently that have produced a small scare. One, that Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has said interest rates could rise ...
Consumer Price Inflation for May 2014 was at 8.28%, a tad lower than April’s 8.59%. From a component level, we find that Food remains high at +9.3%, but Fuel ...
In May 2014, India’s trade balance widened marginally from April, with a $11bn deficit. This is the highest monthly deficit number since July 2013. Export ...
RBI, in its monthly bulletin, has revealed that in April, it bought $4.84 billion worth of dollars, net of forward exposure. RBI buys and sells dollars in the ...