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Chart: Nifty Ends a Flat June to make it a Flat Year To Date
We’re done with half the year and the Nifty has returned….next to nothing. With a 1% return in 2015 so far, it’s almost been like you could have sold in January and gone away: It’s just the first...
View ArticlePortfolio: And Two More Additions To The Momentum Stocks
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View ArticleReads: How IndiaPlaza Went Down and Out
A great read by Ashish Mishra, on the failure of an Indian e-commerce firm , perhaps the first big one, Indiaplaza. Starting 2013, the Indiaplaza story went further downhill. One miserable day. After...
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Nifty P/E Close To Extremes While EPS Growth at Lowest in 5 Years, Before...
Indian stock market P/E ratio zooms upward, while earnings growth has been horrible for the Nifty. Here’s the standalone metric: We’ve added two metrics here – one is an area coverted by green lines,...
View ArticleWhy I Think Markets Will Go UP When Greece Says No
Greece has voted. But we don’t know yet what they’ve voted because the words that will echo through news channels and websites for the rest of the evening will be OXI and NAI, No and Yes respectively...
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China Has Gone Nuts Defending Its Stock Market
There comes a time in every country when you find the stock markets tanking and every regulator decides it’s their responsibility to bring the markets back up. This time it’s China. After their stock...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Buy ULIPs: After We Confuse You, We Underperform Everything
I don’t generally write about ULIPs but once in a while it’s useful to see how bad these products have been. We wrote a long post about HDFC Crest which was being missold by bankers as if it was a...
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Macronomics: Bank NPAs Show Alarming Signs, Add to Woes of the Sector
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Portfolio: The 10th Stock Gets Added, a PSU OMC
This may be a horrible time to fill up the portfolio, right when stocks seem like they’re peaking. But a momentum call comes our way again. The rest of this content is only available to premium...
View ArticleInternational Madness: China Shuts Itself Down, Bans Large Shareholder Sales,...
AChina’s continuing to go absolutely bonkers. After a market crash of 30% that still leaves it about 70% higher than a year back, the Chinese Authorities have banned people from selling . Which as you...
View ArticleHumour: Sharon-Bio Says Stock Probably Went Up Because It Had Gone Down Too Much
In what is just hilarious, the management of Sharon Bio-Medicine has this to say to an NSE request for why the price went up: Share Price of our Company has fallen from Rs. 90/- per share to Rs. 12.50...
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IIP for May 2015 At A Lousy 2.7%, April’s Wow Growth Revised Downwards
The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for May 2015 is lower at 2.7% compared to April. Who am I kidding? This is just MISERABLE. This is the kind of number we should be kicking ourselves about. How...
View ArticleSEBI Increases Lot Sizes to Rs. 5 lakh from November, Index and Stock...
SEBI has changed the game for derivatives traders. A new circular (HT Vashistha ) has increased the lot sizes of each contract, so that: The minimum contract size has been upped from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs....
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CPI Inflation for June 2015 at 5.4%, Highest in 8 months But Not In...
Consumer price inflation picked up a little more than expected in June 2015, with the index moving up 5.4% more than the same time last year. This is the highest headline number since October 2014,...
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Greece Has To Kneel, Beg and Completely Capitulate, Says New Deal
Greece finally has a deal. We don’t know if this is agreed upon in pure exhaustion after 17 hours of negotiations, but it’s something that involved total capitulation by Greece . It is even worse than...
View ArticleRBI Makes Useless Prepaid Card Rules for Metro Transit Systems, What Were...
The RBI has new “ Guidelines for Prepaid Instruments for Mass Transit System “. This is like telling people now, in 2015, that you are allowed to wear a seat belt inside a car. (Meaning: we’re doing...
View ArticleCloud Services Eat Up Indian IT Outsourcing Earnings
I’ve been bearish on IT in the longer term, and in a long post I explain why I think we are at an inflexion point for Indian IT . Over the last quarter, results have been pathetic: HCLTech , Wipro and...
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Real Estate To Fall Big Time, Says Ambit. The Data Seems To Agree.
A big Ambit report is doing the rounds – they predict that real estate will fall big time . We are seeing a broad-based real estate pullback, with prices correcting in most tier-1 and tier-2 cities...
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Optionalysis: Retail Traders Short Options More than Any Other Market...
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Premium: Of Sun Pharma, Infy and Some Results That Spooked The Day
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