Gold’s trading at a high premium. Get this, RBI. You can’t reduce the consumption of a product by restricting supply, when demand is high. Jewellers are ...
New premiums in Life Insurance companies are down about 6% in 2012-13, and that follows a tough year earlier. (From the RBI Financial Stability Report) ULIPs ...
The good folks who bought Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIBs) in the first auction earlier this year have already lost 5% in the market, with another 1,000 cr. ...
The UK has decided to charge a “bond” of 3000 pounds (about 2.8 lakh rupees) every visitor from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Ghana ...
Reliance Capital has decided not to sell gold as an investment product, in a press release that defies imagination: Reliance Capital, a part of the Reliance ...
In its latest bulletin RBI has released statistics of how it has traded the dollar – it buys and sells regularly when there is a need to “control” the ...
Nikhil at Medianama has an excellent piece on the stark lack of online privacy or rights. Milind Deora, India’s Minister of State for IT, has defended the ...
The Rupee has hit close to Rs. 59 to a US Dollar, with the RBI rate at 58.92 and looking worse. In the last two days the dollar has appreciated by over 3.5%. ...
In an excellent paper titled Buffet Stocking Policy in the wake of the National Food Security Bill, Ashok Gulati and Surbhi Jain from the Commission for ...
Problem: India imports too much gold. Facts: There is a lot of gold lying in temple vaults, including jewellery, donated by people over years. This does ...
