Understanding about options is useful to an investor too. Most investors are wary of options as they consider them to be high risk products. That is not the case. Options are actually very useful when it comes to managing risk and for capitalizing on market volatility. Here are some basics you need to learn before …
For a very long time, the two principal financial statements for Indian companies were the Income Statement and the Balance sheet. While the income statement took stock of the income and expense flows during the year, the balance sheet captured the assets and the liabilities of the company at the end of the year. They …
The legendary trader Jesse Livermore once said that when it comes to trading the market, there is no bull side and bear side. There is only the right side. What Livermore intended to convey was that it is not the job of a trader to judge whether the market will go up or the market …
If you have even been a casual observer of markets, the one thing you would have noticed is the stark underperformance of sugar stocks on the NSE. What is rather surprising is that over the last 3-4 years these sugar stocks have been rank outperformers. In the last 6 months the situation changed for the …
Key Word – (Bank NPA) According to recent figures put out by the RBI, the Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of the Indian banks had crossed the Rs.8,50,000 crore mark. It would not be inappropriate to say that the NPA problem continues to be the biggest overhang on credit growth and banking sector health in India. …
Take any housing finance company in India and they have been clear outperformers in the equity market. Be it the larger housing finance companies like HDFC, LIC Housing Finance and Indiabulls Housing Finance or smaller companies like GIC Housing, CanFin Housing and Dewan Housing; they have all outperformed the overall market by a fairly big …
In a recent article, global bond guru Mohammed El Erian of Allianz pointed out the key risks of sustained dollar strength. Whether the dollar actually strengthens during 2017 will largely depend on the fiscal and monetary policies adopted by the US Government and the US Federal Reserve. The assumption at this point of time is …
The PMI (Purchase Manager Index) is a classic measure of whether the particular segment is seeing an expansion or a contraction. Markit Economics calculates this PMI for manufacturing and services separately for all major countries on a monthly basis and announces it in the first week of the next month. For the month of December …
