Monday, December 31st, 2018
Some articles from across the web in the last few weeks: There’s No Such Thing As A Part-Time Watchdog – Bloomberg Quint Smaller FMCG firms race ahead, put bigger rivals on notice – Livemint India is missing the wake-up call from its shadow-bank bust – Bloomberg Are consumption stocks invincible? – Business Line Weaker growth […]
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
We look at returns of various asset classes such as equity, debt, gold, crude oil and the Indian rupee in our latest monthly market summary. We use data for these charts from Investing.com Global Equities The Sensex and the S&P500 both outperformed their broader emerging and developed market peers respectively. The Indian market in particular […]
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Interesting commentary from across the web in the last few weeks: Over dependence on cab aggregators is hurting auto profits – Scroll.in No One is Crazy – Morgan Housel Thriving With Systematic & Discretionary Investing – The Integrating Investor How the contracting PE multiple stole 2018 – The Reformed Broker Coffee Can Investing: Rajeev […]
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
We look at returns of various asset classes such as equity, debt, gold, crude oil and the Indian rupee in our latest monthly market summary. We use data for these charts from Investing.com Global Equities Most major equity markets globally faced a steep correction in the month of October. While the S&P500 and the Sensex […]
Monday, October 29th, 2018
Interesting commentary from across the web in the last few weeks: MIB: Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital – The Big Picture Confessions of an equity analyst – Value Research The impact of NBFCs on fund flow to the economy? – Bloomberg Quint The $80 Trillion world economy in one chart – Visual Capitalist The next […]
Saturday, October 20th, 2018
2018 has seen tightening in financial markets across the globe. This is having divergent effects on growth for different economies. This trend is in sharp contrast to to the synchronised recovery and easy liquidity conditions we were seeing in 2016 and 2017. The US economy continues to have strong momentum. The FED has gradually removed […]
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
How does a balance of payment problem affect demand in the economy? Neelkanth Mishra of Credit Suisse puts it in an elegant way in an interview with Ira Dugal. To paraphrase, if you think of it like a household budget: suppose a family has a consumption expenditure of Rs. 120 and an income of Rs. […]
Monday, October 15th, 2018
The RBI Annual Report generally has a lot of interesting charts and data that give good insights into the state of the economy. In this second post, we cover five charts that we found quite informative from the latest report. 1. India’s Comparative advantage in exports A measure of a country’s export performance is […]
Thursday, October 11th, 2018
We take a look at equity valuations and find that they have moved into even more expensive territory. We use data from the NSE website starting from when it is available in January 1999 to look at the P/E Ratio, P/B ratio and the dividend yield of the index and compare it to past history. Price to Earnings (P/E) […]
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Interesting commentary from across the web in the last few weeks: How high is EM corporate debt? – Advisor Perspectives Global cost of housing – Bloomberg Quint The framework of the MPC – Bloomberg Quint The bond market in a rising rate scenario – A Wealth of Common Sense The performance of PMS in this market […]