Macronomics: Indian Bonds Are Getting The World Jitters
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View ArticlePremium: Banks Hit a Technical Barrier, and the Yield Curve Shifts Up Even As...
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View ArticlePremium: Nifty Results: The Final Summary of FY15 Is Chilling; Q4 Earnings...
As we mentioned in the previous post, results of Nifty companies are just terrible. All Nifty Company Results are in. Here’s the list for the quarter (March quarter) of 2015: The rest of this content...
View ArticleNifty Tests 2015 Lows as Market Does Five Consecutive Down Days
The Nifty hits close to its lowest in 2015, with 8000 acting as a technical barrier on the way down. 2015 has now seen a big upcycle in Jan and Feb, and then a shift to a downtrend. We have now had...
View ArticlePremium: The Nifty Consolidated Price-to-Earnings Ratio
How do you calculate the Price to Earnings of an Index? There are 50 stocks in the Nifty and there is not concept of a “Nifty share”. So how does one figure out if an index as a whole is valued on a...
View ArticleCurrent Account Deficit Falls to 0.2% of GDP, RBI Buys Massive Quantities of...
The current account deficit for the March quarter of 2015 came in at -1,286 million, which is a big relief, even if it’s marginally higher than the deficit we saw in the year earlier. It’s a tiny...
View ArticleIndirect Taxes Up Big Time on Fuel Duties and Gold, Good For Government, Not...
Apparently, the Indirect tax collections (Service Tax, Excise Duty and Customs Duty) are up 37% in May 2015 over May 2014 . But is this really something we should be excited about? Our view: Simple –...
View ArticleConsumer Price Inflation Jumps Back Up To 5% in May 2015
Consumer Price Inflation for May 2015 rose to 5%, rising suddenly after two months of a drop. Components showed rising inflation in: Fuel (we saw two retail fuel price increases in May, and guessed...
View ArticleVedanta to Merge With Cairn, Gets Hands on Cash, Takes Retro-Tax Risk
Cairn and Vedanta will merge soon, says a Vedanta Board Meeting note, where Cairn shareholders will get: One share of Vedanta for a share of Cairn A preference share of Vedanta worth Rs. 10 for every...
View ArticleGuest Video: State of the World This Week by Deepak Singh
We have a guest post – more of a guest video – today for you from Deepak Singh from stateofthemarket.net . Deepak lives in Chicago but keeps a watch on markets in India, and is an excellent technical...
View ArticleGuest Video: Sintex Turning Around Technically?
Deepak Singh from stateofthemarket.net brings us a cool piece on Sintex. Deepak lives in Chicago but keeps a watch on markets in India, and is an excellent technical analyst. Here’s what he has to...
View ArticleExports and Non-Oil Imports Drop as Trade Remains Treacherously Low in May 2015
India’s trade statistics showed: a) A trade deficit of $10.4 billion that’s about flat from the previous month b) a 16% drop in imports and a 20% drop in exports (whoa). Worrisome: Non oil imports...
View ArticleVideo: What are your Biggest Losers?
Recently we did a fantastic video with @b50 on “Biggest Losers”. To those who don’t know, Anupam, who’s @b50 on twitter, spearheaded a program called Big Loser on twitter which encourages people to...
View ArticleNestle and the Maggi Controversy – How Much Does It Hurt the Company?
This is a guest post by Darshesh Thacker, who’s currently studying and interning at Capital Mind . Since 1982, Indian households have spent many an hour over their favourite Maggi noodles. Glitzy...
View ArticleGreece On The Edge Again, Banks See 1.5 Billion Euros Taken Out As Big...
The crisis in Greece is apparently something no one cares about anymore. Someone’s bound to figure this thing out, we feel, because for goodness sake, this thing has been going around for the last...
View ArticleLearn TA: The MACD Indicator and How We Use It
We resume the Technical Analysis Tutorial Series by visiting an indicator known as the MACD – the Moving Average Convergence Divergence Indicator . The rest of this content is only available to...
View ArticleYou Might Not Believe It, But It is Greece Time Again!
Greece is back! We won’t bore you with the details but it seems there’s doing crisis level meetings (again) on the fact that Greece needs money, and it needs money to pay people it owes money, and...
View ArticleOptionalysis: Lessons Learnt From A Profitable But Silly MA20 Trade
We analyze the profits made on a trade based on our proprietary MA20 indicator. This post is for Capital Mind Premium subscribers only. [via Capital MindCapital Mind] Follow us @investmentheat – lists...
View ArticleBanks in Greece Shut on Monday as ECB Shuts Off Liquidity Tap; Rough Week for...
I would technically want to write something beyond Greece. But it beckons. Because: Greek Banks to be closed on Monday after ECB freezes liquidity tap: Greece will introduce capital controls and keep...
View ArticleHedge Funds That Recently Bet on Greece Include Paulson and Watsa
It’s seems some big hedge funds have set up positions in Greece recently that might become stressed (HT ValueWalk.com): John Paulson’s firm acquired a 5.4% stake in Alpha Bank, the fourth largest...
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