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Budgetonomics 2015: The EBook Free For Capital Mind Premium
Every year we produce a book on the Budget called Budgetonomics . It’s about the Budget. The What, the Why, the How and the Who Does It Affect. The pieces in the budget are culled from all of what we...
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2% Down Is Big? Only 6 Such Days In The Last Year, Up or Down!
Markets fall 2% today on what seems to be “Global Volatility”. We think it’s because “prices fluctuate”. They haven’t moved that much recently and look how little we seem to have moved in recent...
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Long Term Returns for Going “Direct” Can Give You Many Lakhs Mor
Last week, we wrote about how investing in Direct Plans vs Regular Plans could give an investor up to 0.7% extra returns annually. The differential is because of commissions that the distribtors get...
View ArticlePortfolio: Two Stops Hit, Adding a Cotton Company and a Chemical Manufacturer
We make a few changes to our CAPM Portfolio based on momentum moves and stop losses being hit. This post is for Capital Mind Premium subscribers only. [via Capital Mind] Follow us @investmentheat –...
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Consumer Inflation for Feb 2015 Not A Worry, Even When Higher Than Last Month...
CPI Inflation for Jan 2015 is out and it’s not a worry. Even though it’s marginally up at +5.37%, the increase is because of the dipping base in the previous year – not really as a major increase...
View ArticleSuckered: NTPC’s Awesome Bonus Debenture and How The Government Gets 9,700...
NTPC has decided to graciously give “Bonus Debentures” to all its shareholders. If you own a share, you get a debenture free. (It’s not “free” really, because nothing ever is, but we’ll get to that)....
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Macronomics: Oil Saves the Current Account Deficit, But Gold Trips Us Up
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The Rupee Does Way Better Than Big Emerging Market Currencies in 2015
The Indian Rupee is the best performing currency in the BRIC. Even the Indonesian Rupiah has devalued substantially. Much of this is because the USDINR was at 63.8 at the end of last year, but...
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Premium: Outliers: Our Video on How To Discover Stocks Using The Tool
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View ArticlePremium: When Promoters Sell: When Is It A Bad Thing?
When is Promoter Selling an issue? We look at some more recent examples of promoter selling to see if it really is such a bad thing. This post is for Capital Mind Premium subscribers only. [via Capital...
View ArticleThe Fed Wriggles Out By Removing "Patient" From Statement
The Fed went a little crazy yesterday. They didn’t want to spook the market, but they did want to say okay we’re not really in a zone that says we are going to endlessly print money any more. Because...
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Outliers: Video: KRBL Shows Up as a Smart Outlier, Granules Revisited. Stocks...
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Macronomics: The Government is Getting 40% of all New Deposits as Credit...
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RBI Swaps Government Debt In Its Own Book Instead of Finding a Market Trade
In the budget, we asked the question: Is a 30,000 cr. debt switch planned for March? Of course it was, it turns out. The government was looking to switch debt worth 30,000 cr. from an immediate...
View ArticleNPS Versus Good Old Long Term Equity Investing – Even Without a Tax-Saving...
It’s tax saving season, so it’s apt to ask: Should you buy into the New Pension Scheme (NPS) for which the government has given you a phenomenal extra tax benefit of Rs. 50,000 next year? The answer...
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What are ‘Bond Yields’? A Video
We have created a 9-minute video to help you understand what ‘ Bond Yields ‘ mean and how they are related to Bond prices in the markets. The key points to take away from this video are: What are...
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March Shows Returns of -4.6%, 10-year Returns Will Fall Unless Sensex Goes Up...
The Nifty returns for March were lousy, giving us a -4.6% month at the end of the financial year: This takes the year’s return to just +2.5%, but at least we’re positive. March’s median returns have...
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PMI Moves Up Small, But the Ugly Inflation is Back!
The HSBC Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) shows a marginal expansion in Manufacturing for March 2015 . This is at 52.1, up from 51.2 in February. Anything above 50 is expansion – that is,...
View ArticleJ&K Bank: A Combination of Bad Luck and NPAs, Talks Big on MetLife. Back to...
This is a very interesting story on J&K Bank. The bank’s been in the news for the wrong reasons recently: for one, it saw a big fraud that hurt its Dec quarter results . Now it’s been hurt because...
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Premium – What’s the Deal With Timken India?
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