If I were Bill Gross, I would have done the same thing….When Bill Gross (the bond Guru?) took a stand that having a bull position in US Governement securities was not a sensible thing to do….I nodded.. He had a big portfolio of government bonds – about 250 billion US $! It is not […]

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Will the US default? Well it makes no sense for the US to default…it has enough money to pay. The President knows they should not default, so let us hope that they do not. However if you are tracking the US economy there is a huge…3 digits billion dollar default happening or about to happen […]

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The Central Government have specified bonds to be issued by (i) Industrial Finance Corporation of India;( IFCI ) (ii) Life Insurance Corporation of India; (L I C) (iii) Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited; and ( I D F C) (iv) a Non-Banking Finance Company classified as an infrastructure finance company by the Reserve Bank of […]

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Germany decided to bail out Greece – or rather joined the bandwagon of ‘Greece bailout helpers’. In its heart perhaps the Germans know (knew) that this is not a great deal after all. Of course the market had to tell the German government what it thought. So the market started selling Government bonds. The Government […]

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