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Month: August 2013

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NSEL Told To Auction Stocks, Take Punitive Action.

The Forward Markets Commission has rapped NSEL hard once again, in a scathing letter to management. Why was only Rs. 92 cr. paid out? This is way lesser than ...

SEBI Asks for Consolidated Results, Cash Flow and Book Values Every 6 Months

SEBI has published draft changes to the way companies report financial results. The revisions are available for public comment till Sep 13, 2013. Companies ...

The Original Operation Twist and Why India’s Version Will Fail

In 1961, when Kennedy became President, the US was going through a recession. The answer was to lower interest rates, but since rates were higher in Europe ...

NSEL Couldn’t Even Make the First Payout, Management is Sacked

I’d noted yesterday that NSEL had received just Rs. 81 cr. of the 174 cr. it was supposed to pay out today. Turns out they didn’t get much more; they ended ...

RBI Launches Operation Knicker-Twist

(The name credit is to @eyeofsiva who will probably disagree with my opinion on it!) RBI has decided to panic as the 10 year bond went to 9.24%. In an ...

Kirit Somaiya Finds No/Less Stock In Two NSEL Warehouses

Kirit Somaiya has uncovered more interesting details on the NSEL borrowers. He finds that Mohan India and Tavishi Enterprises are linked (they are two ...

NSEL Gets Only 81 cr. of the 174 cr. It Must Pay Out

On the eve of the first “payout” by the NSEL to its members, the other parties (“defaulters”) who agreed on a settlement program involving paying over ...

TV18 Fires 300 But Management Stays Despite Trust Debacle

Turns out TV-18 has fired 300 people last week and it seems this is across the channels – TV18, Awaaz, CNNIBN and Lokmat. One of the terminated ones said, ...

Now Mecklai Pushes For Temple Gold Sales

I had written in June 2013 that India should sell all the excess gold in temples. (Excess, because some gold is on the idols). This resulted in people getting ...

The Dollar Hits 63. Nobody Knows Why.

The Rupee is now 63.13 to a dollar, and at this point everyone has a good reason but no one really knows why. You’ll hear the standard stuff like oh, we have ...