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Chart Of The Day: The 10 Yr Bond Crosses 9%

Data from CCIL shows that last Friday, the 10 year bond yield inched above 9%, which is inching towards the high of 9.35% set in July 08. (Note: that was just ...

Cherry Picking 30 Year Bond Data?

Bloomberg posts an article about how in the last 30 years, bonds have beaten stocks. But turn the clock back 30 years ago, and what do you find? In 1981, the ...

Inverted CD Yield Curve – An Update

Quick post about CD yields today. CDs are Certificates of Deposit, trade in the fixed income markets at sizes of a crore or more, and are issued by banks. ...

Liquid Mutual Funds Not To Borrow Money

SEBI has changed the rules for liquid and debt mutual funds. In a circular, they have mentioned the new rules: Liquid funds must get money in their bank ...

L&T Infra Bonds – Upto Nov 15

On the lines of the IFCI Infra Bonds , Larsen and Toubro have Infra bonds out for subscription too, which save you tax upto 20,000 per year. This is separate ...

IFCI Infra Bonds: Saves You Tax Too

IFCI has some infrastructure bonds open for purchase, and they give you a tax exemption on a limit of 20,000 per year. Scheme: ...

RBI – Banks Selling “Hold To Maturity” Securities

RBI’s latest notification: In terms of our Master Circular No. DBOD.BP.BC.18/21.04.141/2010-11 dated July 1, 2010 on ‘Prudential Norms for Classification, ...

First Government Bond Auction Fails

On friday, the new financial year’s first government bond auction for 12,000 crores failed; about 448 crores devolved on primary dealers. (101: Auctions are ...

Govt. to borrow 287,000 cr. in next 6 months

RBI has put the borrowing calendar of GSecs for April-September 2010. The total borrowing is slated to be 287,000 cr. with 11,000 to 15,000 crores borrowed ...

RBI introduces STRIPS

Not the kind that involves invasive body searches, or certain dance bars. STRIPS is Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities – ...