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Month: July 2008

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Spammers Note: You will not be published

Some random idiots are posting spam comments on this blog. They do not understand two things: Spamming 60 posts does not provide a better chance to be ...

Proposed Rupee Futures in a Regulatory Vice

Vikram Murarka on the upcoming rupee futures: The lot size has been kept at a mere $1,000, which is just about Rs 42,500 at today’s rate….To put things ...

Innovative Uses for Annual Reports

Shrinidhi Hande has an interesting take on what his investment strategy is: (Hat Tip: Anand Gadiyar): With disappointment I looked at the pile of annual ...

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 ...

The Fall of the Indian Retail Mall

From DNA: Plunging sales see retailers quit malls: ETAM, the French lingerie brand that has a joint venture with Kishore Biyani’s Future Group, recently ...

ICICI in more trouble?

From Sify, in March 2008: ICICI Bank’s investments in credit derivatives could be four times previous estimates at $6 billion, analysts said on ...

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, ...

Dark Pools and Algorithmic Trading

From Economic Times: Dark pools threaten the existence of LSE, NYSE and Euronext: Dark pools, to put it simply, are essentially trading platforms and exchanges ...