I am writing about an issue that a large number of people who have borrowed from various banks over the last few years are facing today. This is also borne out by my own experience. Back in the years 2004-2006 when liquidity was ample most private sector and foreign banks lured investors into borrowing from […]
Read MoreAs most people in the markets were waiting for the Nifty to fall to 2200 levels it has actually rallied and reached a level of 3500 a whopping 60% higher than the most predicted level at the beginning of March 2009. This has created a scenario today where most fund managers, investors, speculators, hedge fund […]
Read MoreWho’s the fairest of them all ?I just cannot help but notice that the maximum numbers of hoardings these days on the Mumbai skyline are occupied by advertisements of a particular industry. A year back most of the hoardings were dominated by Real Estate companies and six months prior to that by companies looking to […]
Read MoreOver the last three to four months we have seen a number of rating agencies coming outwith their concerns on the rising fiscal deficit position of India and have indicated that they have put India on a rating watch for a possible downgrade. Not let us look at this issue dispassionately. The combined Fiscal Deficit […]
Read MoreYesterday the Reserve Bank of India came out with its policy review in which i believe the biggest positive is that the RBI has continued with its easing policy. In the background of the Economic Outlook published by the RBI a day back it was only prudent on its part to reduce interest rates by […]
Read MorePart II In part I of the article I wrote on the Anatomy of the bear market. Now I will cover what investors should be doing now. The three phases of the bear market made most investors move away from capital good, real estate, infrastructure, financial etc stocks into defensive bets like FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Utilities […]
Read MoreThere are various parameters that were being used by analysts to measure the fear factor that gripped the markets in the year 2008, specially after the month of September when the rumors of financial institutions going down in the Western world started gaining ground and which culminated in the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a virtual […]
Read MorePart I – The anatomy of the bear As I sit to analyze the kind of stocks and sectors one should be buying into at this point of time with a medium term perspective it is important to analyze the anatomy of the bear market. In order to do this I would first go back […]
Read MoreOver the last couple of months I have had a conversation with several people where they have been of the view that the decoupling theory has not worked and how everything has fallen as the US has fallen and the global recession is impacting everyone similarly.I have a different view on this subject. Yes I […]
Read MoreMarkets are up 30% from the bottom what should an investor do plus more These are some of the questions that I face every day. I believe that the answer to all of them is not very simple, however let me try to address them one by one in brief. 1. Industrial production growth is […]
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