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Month: February 2014

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The Interim Budget: Cheaper Cars And A Big Education Loan Subsidy

Quick notes on the interim budget. Cars will become cheaper as excise duties will be cut until 30 Jun 2014. For commercial vehicles, small cars and bikes, ...

RBI Pushes Banks To Trade Bond Futures?

RBI pressures banks to trade bond futures (NDTV). Eager for a successful launch, RBI officials are making frequent phone calls to lenders encouraging them to ...

How QNet Pulled It Off

At Yahoo, I write about How QNet Pulled it Off: "Biophoton light," you are told, will energise liquids faster and more efficiently "via the ...

WPI Inflation for Jan 2014 at 5.05%, Lowest in Seven Months

Wholesale Price Inflation in India for Jan 2014 came in at a low 5.05%, making everyone wonder what they are smoking. (Beedi’s perhaps, which has seen ...

Macronomics: A Source Of Potential Banking System Stress

This is an archive of the Macronomics letter for Capital Mind Premium subscribers, sent on Feb 14, 2014. Markets climb a wall of worry and fall through the ...

Optionalysis: How STT Affects Option Prices (Plus, Portfolio Changes)

This is an archive for Capital Mind Premium subscribers, sent on Feb 8, 2014. A number of options traders start taking positions and hold them too long, and ...

The largest industry is the one that’s the least disrupted: #FinTech hackathon

This is a guest post by Mukund Mohan, on an event in Bangalore that involved technology and finance. Mukund is the Director of Microsoft Ventures, which runs a ...

Dec 2013 IIP at -0.6%, Manufacturing Still Sucks

The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for December 2013 came in at -0.6%, which is lousy. Media sources keep telling you they “beat expectations” and ...

CPI Inflation in Charts: Jan 2014 at 8.79%, Lowest in 25 months

CPI Inflation has eased to the lowest rate since Jan 2012, at 8.79%. The trend is definitely down and nearly all of it is due to the huge drop in food prices. ...

Promoter of Onmobile Will Buy 10% of Company at Rs. 40 in an Open Offer

This is a guest post by Medianama (also posted here) which is a premier source of information and analysis on Digital and Telecom businesses in India. A much ...