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Petrol and Diesel Prices Cut By Rs. 2+, Excise Duties Also Hiked Similarly

Petrol prices are down by Rs. 2.42 per litre and diesel by Rs. 2.25 per litre from midnight today. And at the same time, in a notification, excise duties of ...

RBI Cuts Rates by 0.25% and We Told You So

Just three days ago, we wrote: At this point we at Capital Mind believe the RBI is very likely to cut rates, even before the next meeting. Because Inflation ...

Make Long Term Capital Gains Tax Free Only After Three Years of Holding

Equity capital gains are free if you sell shares after a year. You don’t pay long term capital gains taxes for shares sold on a stock exchange. But if ...

IIP Rises 3.8% in November, But Largely due to Diwali Effect

The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) went up 3.8% but the rise was mostly due to the Diwali effect. Diwali causes IIP to drop, as we have noticed in the ...

IIP and Core Industries Diverged, but Will IIP Data Go Up Big Today?

There’s been a strange move in the Index of Industrial Production versus the “Eight Core Industries” in the previous month. The 8 core ...

Aggregate Debt Under CDR Mechanisms at An All-Time High; 19 Fresh Cases During Q2 2015

Earlier in 2014, we at Capital Mind had analysed the statistics behind Corporate Debt Restructuring programs in India (Macronomics: Corporate Debt Restructured ...

Crude Price Falls, But Govt Keeps Raising Excise Duty To Match

The government has, for the third time in two months, raised excise duty of petrol and diesel by Rs. 2 each. This means there’s no change in the retail ...

The Last Chart of 2014: That Rupee Goes Weak (Or, the Dollar Goes Strong?) Happy New Year!

The Indian Rupee in 2014 has seen an interesting ride. Starting out at Rs. 62 to a dollar, the rupee rose to around Rs. 58 in June. Since then, however, we ...

Indian Housing Loan to Income Ratios at Highest Share in Three Years. Will 2015 Be The Year of Reckoning?

Loan to Income ratios seem to be on the uptick for new housing loans, and at the highest levels since December 2011/March 2012. Source: RBI’s Macro ...

Follow-up to 2014 Thus Far: The Fall of Oil and Its Effects on Indian Fuel Prices; Crude Oil Prices in Rupee-Terms

Last week, we at Capital Mind had written about how Oil Prices had changed during 2014, and how those changes affected movements of fuel prices in India. In ...