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Month: November 2011

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Moody’s Downgrades Indian Banks

…and the bank index fell nearly 3% yesterday. Moody’s, which is a rating agency and therefore likely to be completely clueless, took the Indian banking ...

Q&A: Futures Versus Cash

Suhail Kazi writes in on the derivatives post with a few questions that I thought belong in a separate post. a) Is there a T+2 (or other) settlement period for ...

The Derivative Alternative

(From my article at Yahoo) While derivatives have been called weapons of mass destruction and worse, they can provide alternative methods to participate in the ...

Chart Of The Day: UTI Sunder Goes Berserk

The Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) named UTI Sunder, that’s supposed to track the Nifty. But the price on the exchange seems to have varied wildly from the NAV ...

Behavioural Quirks and Discipline

The awesome Devangshu Datta writes about Behavioural Quirks: Very few investors have the self-awareness required to analyse their own performances as ...

SAIL Results: Down 55%, Shady Forex Move

The latest SAIL results had this to say: vi) Due to unusual and steep depreciation in the value of the Rupee against US Dollar and Euro during the current ...

Weekly Market Snapshot: Down 1.4%

Markets came off the highs last week, and failed to go over the 200 DMA, as they lost 1.4%. The P/E has gone up to 19.21 as Earnings on the Nifty have fallen ...

Chart Of The Day: Coldest November in 9 years

2011 seems to be colder year than most of the last 9 nine years, at least out here in Gurgaon. I found a dataset of world temperatures at 14,000 ft (okay, ...

Greece And Markets….

The story about Greece and international stock markets. Greece needs a bailout. Reaction: OH MY GOD! All the banks in the world will die! We have to find them ...

Chart Of The Day: Bonds Vs Stocks in India

Much has been made of the US 30 yr bonds now returning more than stocks. India is new in terms of data, and I acquired 20+ year bond index data from CCIL (only ...