What is India Inc? ‘India Inc.’ is popularly used by the Indian media to refer to the formal (governmental or corporate) sector of the nation. The companies listed under India Inc employed around 7 percent of the Indian workforce in 2000 while contributing to 60% of the nominal GDP of India. The Ministry of Company Affairs …
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Common Trading Errors
15 June 2018When stock futures were first introduced in India in 2001, they became quite popular as futures were structurally similar to the Badla system on the BSE. However, the regulator has been worried (and rightly so) that losses on futures could multiply if retail investors do not understand the finer points. Why do we see so …

What do rising bond yields mean for equity markets?
3 May 2018Bond yields, in India and across the world, have been rising sharply in the last few months. In fact, when the monetary policy was announced by the RBI on 3rd April 2018, the bond yields had touched a low of 7.12% have since then rallied by more than 60 basis points to the 7.73% levels. …

OFS Vs IPO
23 February 2018The Initial Public Offer (IPO) market has been abuzz over the last 2 years. While IPOs helped raise nearly $2 billion in the fiscal year 2016-17, the fiscal year 2017-18 is likely to see well over $5 billion raised through the IPO markets. When we talk about IPOs we normally use the terms IPO, FPO …

How to Survive Equity Volatility: Lessons from Nadal & Federer
19 September 2017When Rafael Nadal beat Kevin Anderson at the US Open on 11th September 2017, it was the fourth occasion when the Grand Slam (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open) was shared between Federer and Nadal. Previously, the Grand Slam was shared between Nadal and Federer in 2006, 2007 and 2010. What is really …

Why traders should never attempt to predict prices!
15 May 2018Ask any stock market trader why they lost money and the standard answer would be that they got their price prediction wrong. But is it really possible to predict stock prices? Prices are after all a series of random movements and believing that you can predict prices is audacious; to say the least. The answer …

Indusind Bank Merger with Bharat Financial
13 September 2017The proposed merger between IndusInd Bank and Bharat Financial has been a matter of discussion for a fairly long time. It was seen by many analysts as the perfect fit between the first mile and the last mile of financial services. IndusInd Bank with its strong client base and corporate relationships needed headway into the …

Why Are FIIS Selling in India?
11 September 2017Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been aggressively selling across emerging markets and India has been no exception. In the 4 weeks of August, FIIs have pulled out over Rs.15,000 crore from Indian equity markets with the trend turning sharply negative due to a combination of geopolitical uncertainty and weak earnings season in the June quarter. …

What Will It Mean If Tata Sons Go Private?
21 September 2017During the week, the Tatas have called a special meeting on September 21st to consider converting Tata Sons from a Public Limited company into a Private Limited Company. This decision needs to be seen in the light of the recent differences that cropped up between the Tatas and the Mistry family leading to the eventual …

10 Stock Markets Lessons That You Can learn From IPL
9 May 2018IPL 2018 is on in full swing and it will be another 3 weeks before the eventual winners are known. But IPL 2018, like in each of the past 11 years, has had its share of thrills, adventures, disappointments and some earnest lessons. Interestingly, there are some interesting lessons that the stock markets in general …

