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Readings: Bank Elite, MFI, MoneyLife, 99ers

A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives by NYT. How the big bankers won’t let in the small guys into the market they control and keep opaque. ...

The Oddities of US Inflation.

Krugman says “Disinflation Confirmed”. Because if you remove housing from US core inflation the graph still slides downwards. Let’s see – Core ...

New TRAI Rules: Switch the SMS Spam OFF

New Telemarketing Rules are here from Jan 1. Fairly major, it seems, with some interesting implications. (Full Regulation is here) All telemarketers to ...

HDFC Ups RPLR to 15%

(Thanks to @Work_ant for mentioning this) HDFC increased its Retail Prime Lending Rate (RPLR) to 15% yesterday – see pic below – , up 75 basis points ...

The Bribery Scam: Negative for Real Estate

The CBI yesterday busted a scam where executives in banks and fin-organizations took bribes (surprise!) to give real estate developers large loans. Among the ...

Readings: Japan, Expert Advise, Sec Theater

Japan, after the bubble. An old piece but amazingly informative about how real estate screwed that country. In the same context, WSJ on the London Real Estate ...

Readings: China Raises Rates, Coal India, Bond Yields

China takes rates up 25 basis points. Inflation, it seems. Lending rates are now 5.56%. Coal India’s 15,000 crore IPO is 1.7 times oversubscribed. For the ...

Nifty Pre-Open Auction from 9:00 to 9:15

On the NSE, there will be a pre-open auction session from 9:00 to 9:15 after which regular trading will happen. Why a pre-open auction? The “open” price ...

Readings: Dubai, Making Money, A Big Listing

NYT: Canceling Dubai Property Deals Is Nearly Impossible Watch out, there’s an Emaar IPO coming up in India soon. Ritholtz: Do You Wanna Be Right, or Do ...

Links: SKS CEO, SEBI Outrage, Cover Stories

Moneylife is pissed with SEBI. I’m not in favour of their arguments; though some of them are forced through for no reason (such as KYC or KYD being made ...