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VIX at or near lows

So the VIX – NSE’s volatility index – is very close to all time lows. With the indices having not moved much this entire year, is volatility gone? Does ...

Weekend: Market Myths, Macro, Fin Data Security

Ten Stock Market Myths that Just Won’t Die – Wall Street Journal What I really liked was #4: 4 "Investing in the stock market lets you participate in ...

Market Cap as % of GDP

Barry Ritholtz: The US stock market capitalization (NYSE+Nasdaq) has gone higher than US GDP. I have some limited data for India – for the last three years. ...

Links: Regulatory Oversight, and Oversight of Regulators

It seems the Finance Ministry knew about SEBI’s note to the insurance companies a full week before it happened. Wow. The rest was politics. And Ajay Shah ...

BDI drops 34 days in succession

Alert reader MK points out the the Baltic Dry Index isn’t looking very good. The economist finds the reasons: Add in the fact that China’s imports of iron ...

Poker and Trading

Amit Varma’s required-reading post on The Beautiful Game of Poker has parallels in the stock market as well. A game involving both skill and luck, poker has ...

HDFC Results: Encouraging?

While I’m not a great fan of HDFC, the mortgage originator has shown some promise. The latest results, on the face of it, show a 23% rise in EPS over Q1 ...

India Outperforms along with Korea

I just did a relative analysis of world indices for the last three months. The top two right now are India followed by Korea which are close to the same levels ...

Holiday Break

I’m taking a week off in the mountains and with flaky internet access, won’t be able to post much. Markets seem to be getting slowly interesting, ...

US Mortgage Rates Sink to Lowest on Record

It seems mortgage rates in the US have fallen to the lowest on record, at 4.69 percent: Mortgage company Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for ...