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Be Sceptical: Mantri Developers Offers 100% "Assured" Returns in 3 Years, Yet Again, While SEBI and RBI Watch

1Mantri Developers is at it again. They’re offering 100% assured returns on your “investment”, and SEBI/RBI do absolutely nothing! In fact, ...

60% of the Bond Auction Fails, RBI Cancels Three of Four Auctions

RBI has just cancelled 60% of the government bond auction today. With four bonds on sale, we had noted again on twitter that underwriting commissions has ...
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You Could Get a Tax Cut For Paying Electronically, Says a Government Proposal to Help E-Payments Trump Cash

The government has proposed a policy to make Electronic Transactions more attractive. In the proposal, they say a number of things that sound like music to my ...

IIP At 5% for April 2015, With A Smart 5% Gain in Manufacturing

The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for April 2015 has something decent – with a 4.05% increase, which seems to finally be a good number. We have ...

Bond Markets Crash, Failure of Bond Auction Today is Likely Again

There’s some serious damage in the bond market in the last few days. We posted (in Premium) that Banks are likely to lose 10,000 cr. on just the extra ...

Indirect Taxes Up Big Time on Fuel Duties and Gold, Good For Government, Not So Much For Anyone Else

Apparently, the Indirect tax collections (Service Tax, Excise Duty and Customs Duty) are up 37% in May 2015 over May 2014. But is this really something we ...

Current Account Deficit Falls to 0.2% of GDP, RBI Buys Massive Quantities of Incoming Dollars

The current account deficit for the March quarter of 2015 came in at -1,286 million, which is a big relief, even if it’s marginally higher than the ...

A Bond Auction Failed Today, The Second Failure in A Month

So the bond auction did fail. We mentioned this earlier today. It didn’t fail by too much, though; just 890 cr. that devolved. However the yields at ...

Correction: Wrong Deflator – It's Actually 1.5%

Yesterday we had said that the GDP deflator was 0.2%. This is wrong. The new method uses something called GVA – or Gross Value Added – to indicate ...

RBI Cuts Rates by 25 bps, and the Markets Hate It

RBI has, in it’s policy reduced the repo rate to 7.25% which is the lowest the rate has been in the last four years. Repo is the rate at which banks ...