In a training class there are some of the few questions I cannot wish away. Let me name a few: 1. What will happen to the market in the next 12 months? 2. When will the market reach 21000 again? (they mean Sensex) 3. Is the fall over? Will it start rising again? When? Frankly […]

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YOU may have heard of LIBOR – if you replace London by Mumbai, you will know what is MIBOR. A committee was set up for the development of debt market. According to their suggestion, NSE had developed MIBID (Mumbai Interbank Bid Rate) AND MIBOR (Mumbai  Interbank  Offer  Rate)  for the overnight market. This was launched […]

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There is no single or fixed location or exchange where debt market participants transact. Also very sadly small investors have no role to play. Which means as a lay investor you can invest in equities (far more difficult to understand) but cannot invest in debt markets (easier to understand). Dealings are done over phone, and […]

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One of my popular posts is “life insurance simplified” so I thought I will continue to use the same tag line for all my 101 lessons! The number of journalists I know is going up, and the questions I get from them is stunning. The latest – “If Hdfc bank pays 3% interest on a […]

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