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Month: March 2009

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RBI rejects government bond auction bids

From ET: The Reserve Bank of India has rejected all the bids received in the auctions held today for the sale of “7.46 per cent Government Stock ...

Cutting Rates to [Effectively] Zero

Tamal Bandyopadhyay writes about how RBI can cut rates to ...

Deficit funding – Using the PSU share pool

So Bond yields are at serious (recent) highs – 6.83% and counting. So the government is unlikely to get a huge bond sale through – but that is a ...

Protectionism will hit Employment, not Goods

From the Wall Street ...

"Older Posts" in my Blogger Template

This has been ticking me off for a while. I use Blogger “templates” and not “Layouts”, and there has never been the ability to create ...

John Mauldin: The Law of Unintended Consequences

John Mauldin’s Thoughts from the frontline: The law of unintended consequences: In the beginning there were ratings agencies, and they rated corporate ...

Subhiksha: Another Satyam in the making?

Sidin Vadukut writes at Mint, about the potential acquisition of “Blue Green Constructions and Investments” by Subhiksha, the ailing retailer whose ...

Buy and Hold: Cracks in the wall

There is the theory that one can buy stocks or an index, and hold for a long long time, and boom, we have a winner. This theory has been peddled to ...

Jon Stewart On CNBC and Rick Santelli

So funny. And to think I actually defended Rick on a forum (more like noted he wasn’t quite an ...

Letter to PFRDA : Why go back to Requiring Rating for Bonds

The PFRDA seems to have ditched the Expert Group. In it’s call for comments, I notice that they have both an incorrect entry (of what the Expert Group ...