"Markets" tag

Taxing the super-rich in India –avoid unintended consequence

In 2012, Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Laureate, one of the world’s foremost thinkers in contemporary economics, author of the 2012 best-seller titled “The Price of Inequality” was quoted in the New York Times as...

Time To accumulate IDFC LTD: Stock poised to ride the coming economic upturn

Infrastructure development finance corporation (IDFC) was formed in 1997 with the major objective of securing private capital for commercially viable infrastructure projects. The company was notified as a public financial institution in 1999. The company...

The Brent crude oil price have held 112

The Brent crude oil price have held 112USD  a barrel on support from upbeat manufacturing data from china & Germany. Though Brent has been trading sideways from USD 115-107. A stronger dollar has been though...

Big-Box Retail – Really the pallbearer of doom for local industry & commerce?

Earlier, I have touched upon a few ‘enablers’ that retailers would expect to be in place – added to it are larger questions around the lack of clean, effective and accountable governance that is not...

Bank Nifty Technical Trend Analysis

Bank Nifty makes new highs every week and touched a yearly high of 12908 on 15th January 2013.Technically 13281 of 8th November 2010 is a lifetime high in Bank Nifty daily chart as one can...

Nifty Technical Trend Analysis

Nifty is making new highs every week and touched a yearly high of 6101 on 22nd January 2013. In nifty daily chart one can observe many trend lines from left to right. On the left...

Stocks cheaper than their Book Value-Performance Review

In our article Bargain Hunting: Stocks cheaper than their Book Value, we had indicated certain stocks as a better bet compared to others following simple strategy of Bargain Hunting on the basis of relatively lower...

Samsung Note 2 Review

Unless you have an extreme addiction for large phones or have fingers skillful enough to stretch more than 3 inches without any strain, the Samsung Note II is not the phone for you. More commonly...

What should foreign retailers do to crack the Indian market?

Firstly, foreign retailers should be judicious in selecting the markets that they want to build their base in and operate out of. India is a huge country with large disparities in prosperity, governance standards and...

Time to tune in – iTunes

Apple fans gleam with joy as the Apple iTunes store launched in 55 countries last month. What was earlier a harsh reality of paying hefty sums of money for downloading content, thanks to skyrocketing exchange...

Real Estate Reforms – what to expect in 2013

The year 2013 is expected to be a landmark year as far as reforms in the real estate sector are concerned. Some of the major reforms initiated in the previous years are likely to be...

FDI in Retail – when it comes to organized retail, how different is India?

If  I were to distill the key enablers which retailers in the West have built their businesses upon, the following stand out: Vast open spaces to set up huge, stand-alone hypermarkets with millions of SKUs....