Ask 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 …
The 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 …
Foreign 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. …
During 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 …
IPL 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 …
If you did a casual search for “Indian pharma companies” on Google, then there will be a typically depressing story that will be underlying these search results. Consider a few of them… Offshore transfer of IP assets by pharma companies under RBI radar… 5 Reasons why Pharma Stocks could still come under pressure… Pricing pressure …
As Indian PSU banks face the big challenge of expanding their asset books without expanding the NPAs, the question of bank capital is back again. If Indian banks are to adhere to the Basel III norms by 2019, they will require billions of dollars in capital. The question is; where will the money come from? …
Ok, just as an option has a buyer, it also has a seller. Is that not what any market is all about? Unlike the option buyer who has unlimited profit potential and limited risk, the option seller is in a converse situation. An option seller has unlimited loss potential but his profits are limited to …
There was little by way of surprise when Vishal Sikka resigned on the 18th of August 2017. Like the man Sikka admires immensely, Steve Jobs of Apple, there was a sense of drama surrounding whatever Vishal Sikka did. There was a sense of drama in his arrival, there was a sense of drama when the …
The recent special bulletin brought out by the NSE on the occasion of the index touching 10,000 had an interesting comparison over the last 12 years time frame. Back in 2005, the weightage of banking and financial services in the overall Nifty was just about 12%, with automobiles, oil and IT having around the same …
