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Dry Bulk Index Drops 43% In A Month

Bespoke Investment Group has an interesting chart on the Baltic Dry Index (BDI). According to FT, the drop is due to an anticipated increase in the number of ...

Back From Holiday, With Notes…

Bangalore was fantastically refreshing, with mentionably better weather. Much  has happened in the last few days, so I’ll use this post to link-comment. ...

Readings: Bank Risk, Carbon Credits, Kingfisher

Nine Lakh Cr. stuck in risky sectors, says Firstpost. Even a 10% loss on that will hugely hurt bank capital, but the figure is exaggerated. “There is an ...

We Need More Equity Investors: McKinsey

The coming shortage of equity investors by the Economist, quoting a report by McKinsey. 80% of the world’s financial assets of $157 trillion are held in ...

Market Snapshot: The 4% Down Week

The market went down last week on some bad news from Europe, the bad local news and in general, the lack of any good news whatsoever. The Nifty ended down 3.6% ...

European Cos Moving Cash To Germany

That’s what Bloomberg says: Grupo Gowex (GOW), a Spanish provider of Wi-Fi wireless services, is moving funds to Germany because it expects Spain to exit the ...

Random Reads: The Big Fight, Social Media, UID Kaput?

The Big Fight between Ma-Mu and John K about the demise of Taggle, the kamikaze (or not) act of Air Deccan, and how we should not do things. I think it’s ...

World Markets Rejoice as Central Banks Do …. Something.

Nearly all markets are up 3% or more on the news that the six big central banks – the US Fed, the ECB, Swiss National Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan ...

FDI in Retail Approved, More Bark Than Bite

The cabinet has approved Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Retail. 51% in multi-brand retail (think Walmart, Tesco) 100% in single-brand retail (like a Nike) ...

IRDA’s Final Insurance Aggregator Guidelines

IRDA has released guidelines for “web aggregators”. (I’ve written about this earlier) These are final guidelines and will be applicable from February ...