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Sep 2012 Does An 8% Rally

September has been a fantastic month, returning 8.5% on the Nifty, only second to the great 12.4% return in January this year. This comes on the back of ...

The Bikini Statistics of Market Volume

I often get reminded of this quote (I don’t know the source): Statistics are like Bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive; but what they conceal is ...

CPI Inflation Back in Double Digits (Aug 2012)

Consumer Prices are up 10.03% in August 2012 as the index goes back up into dangerous 10%+ levels from a sub-10% print last month. The "New" CPI (as ...

August 2012 WPI Inflation at 7.55%. And More Upward Revisions.

WPI inflation for August 2012 has come in at 7.55%, a jump over July’s first released number of 6.87%. All the base components have gone up, with ...

How the Indian Stock Market Compares with the Rest of the World (September 2012)

After a long season, let’s hit some international charts again. All data till Thursday (so none of the Friday gains are in) The German DAX has done very ...

Nifty Monthly Chart – A Relaxed 0.6% August

It’s been a while since I wrote, and my apologies for that. I’m making up by posting my regular monthlies first. The Nifty went up 0.6% in August, ...

July CPI At 9.86% and Still Too High

July’s Consumer Price Index inflation showed that prices are still increasing at an alarming rate, even though the price change is less than 10%. Note ...

July 2012 WPI Inflation at 6.87%

July 2012 Inflation on WPI has come in at 6.87%, a lower figure than than the 7.25% in June. But these figures are revised constantly (like I noted last time, ...

India's July PMI at 54.4, Marginally Lower

India’s July PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) dropped to 54.4, only marginally off the last month’s figure of 55.7. Anything above 50 is ...

Nifty and Sensex Diverge in July 2012

The Nifty and Sensex seem to have gone in different directions in July, with the Nifty gaining 0.7% while the Sensex lost 1%. That’s because of different ...