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The Scorecard of Predictions and Statements

This weekend I thought I’d go back to my posts long long back – my patience ran out at 2007 – and see if I had made grand and silly ...

Dead Cat Bounce

The Sensex closed above 13,500 and the Nifty near 4100 today. Things seem to look good, and suddenly you will start getting calls from brokerage houses and see ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Sensational Sensex EPS Story

So I read through some past projections of the Sensex EPS as of March 09. Kotak Securities’ MD says 975-1000. (Feb 08) Nilesh Shah, ICICI Prudential AMC ...

To Believe or Not To Believe

I got inspired by Monster.com and searched on their site for the various jobs they advertise in their TV spots. Bharatnatyam dancer: No results, but ...