It’s the economy, stupid! Central banks take their bets
Central banks across the world met last week to set interest rates, sparking the question – what would the RBI do. Meanwhile, FDI blooms, but money leaves under the LRS.
Central banks across the world met last week to set interest rates, sparking the question – what would the RBI do. Meanwhile, FDI blooms, but money leaves under the LRS.
No alarms and no surprises last week. Inflation stayed sticky, rural wages saw mild real growth, and merchandise trade remained steady. India’s forex reserves zoomed. US inflation refused to budge lower, while Indonesia is in trouble.
We’re in a leap year; February was stretched by a day, and so are its numbers. Meanwhile, January saw the first current account surplus in forever, while money gushes into Indian mutual funds.
How fast did we grow last quarter? Could be 8.4% or 6.5%, depending on who you ask. Meanwhile, tax collections rise, less affluent Indians save more, and Europe finally reigns in inflation. And more.
After a long decline, fixedline connections are up. Aviation is still reeling from the pandemic. FDI is leaving the country, as is money under the LRS scheme. And more.
This week on Its the economy, stupid, lower CPI and WPI inflation, trade balance, and more.
In this edition, we take a look at outcome of RBIs Monetary Policy Commitee Meeting, Consumer Confidence Survey and diflation in China.
You would have likely heard about it from someone or experienced it yourself: a medical emergency strikes, and you rush to the nearest hospital, only to discover your insurer’s network does not cover it. Dealing with upfront payments and waiting for reimbursements can be stressful. To ease the financial burden and speed up the claims […]
Pig butchering scam involves fattening the victim before butchering. Scammers gain the trust of users by using fake profiles. They use the pretense of love and friendship to gain the trust of users and then induce them to send money for jobs and high-return investments and steal the money.
Venture capital is a type of private equity that is focused on early-stage companies called startups. And the need for this type of capital came into being because banks and conventional financial institutions are risk-averse. They hesitate to and rarely underwrite loans to businesses early in their lifecycle.
Three decades after the first Venture Capital (VC) firm mushroomed in the US, in 1975, risk capital found its way to India. Even though there were several instances of accidental VC underwriting businesses before 1975, the first formal VC scheme in India was in the form of interest-free loans through the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI).
A few years ago, around 2016, I remember stumbling onto an old lecture from Don Valentine. For the uninitiated, Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital VC firm in 1972, before the terms “Silicon Valley” and “venture capital” had even been coined. I can go on and on about how iconic Don was, but his lecture left a […]
Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। Penalties for brokers for not maintaining adequate working capital requirements kick in from today, 1st Aug. The second phase of the SEBI circular requiring brokers to provide a client-level allocation of funds to avoid one customer’s funds from being used by another goes into […]
आनेवाले IPOs के बारें में जानने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें अब आप Console के द्वारा नए IPOs (इनिशियल पब्लिक ऑफरिंग्स) में अप्लाई कर सकते हैं। अब तक, हमने कस्टमर्स को IPOs में अप्लाई करने के लिए ASBA (एप्लिकेशन सपोर्टेड बाय ब्लॉक्ड अमाउंट) का इस्तेमाल करने के लिया कहा था। आप संबंधित बैंक के नेटबैंकिंग […]
मई 2020 में डेपोसिटोरीज़ (जैसे NSDL और CDSL) ने एक नयी प्रक्रिया जारी की थी जिसमे निवेशक किसी भी डिलीवरी ट्रेड के लिए अपने शेयर्स TPIN का उपयोग करने के बाद ही बेच सकते थे। इस नयी प्रक्रिया की वजह से निवेशक अपना ट्रेडिंग और डीमैट अकाउंट बिना पावर ऑफ़ अटॉर्नी के फिजिकल कागज़ के […]
Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। In May 2020, the depositories introduced a new process for clients to authorise the debit of securities from their demat accounts against a delivery sale transaction by entering a TPIN. The new process made a physical Power of Attorney for the demat account, […]
I guess you have read the headlines from the US on how retail traders are causing a “short squeeze” in stocks like GameStop, AMC entertainment, etc. If you haven’t, check this article by Finshots that explains this well. We have been getting a lot of questions around shorting, and if a short squeeze of this […]
We have all heard of the lakhs of crores of Rupees worth of trading turnover that happens in the Indian capital markets every day, creating the illusion that the markets are massive. However, this post explains why they are not, and why looking at trading turnover to determine the market size is highly flawed. Trading […]
NRIs can now buy and hold, on a non-repatriation basis: equity shares, convertible preference shares, convertible debenture, warrants, or units that will be considered domestic investments at par with investments made by residents using their NRO accounts. This eliminates the need for a PIS permission letter, thus opening up a whole lot of new options […]
Edited: 1st Feb 2022 after the budget announcement that surcharge on LTCG (Long term capital gain) of unlisted companies to be capped at 15%. Overall LTCG for unlisted companies now drops from 28.5% to 23.92%. We get a lot of credit for bootstrapping Zerodha and building the business without raising professional money. I have always […]
Update your Kite mobile app to the latest version to access this new flow. Background When you open an account with us, you are opening a trading account which allows you to buy and sell shares on the stock exchanges (NSE, BSE), and a demat account with a depository (CDSL in our case) where you […]
Thursday, 29th Aug, was a tough day for us as a business. Our vendor-managed Order Management System (OMS) had a 30+ minute downtime caused by a single anomalous order, a new scenario they were not familiar with. We investigated the issue and published a postmortem report with technical details on the same evening, which seems […]
Click here for upcoming IPOs You can now apply for new IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) from within Console. Until now, we asked customers to apply for IPOs using the ASBA (Application Supported by Blocked Amount) from their respective bank’s netbanking portal or by visiting a bank and submitting a physical application with your Zerodha demat […]
UPI is changing the payments landscape in India. You must have already seen metrics for the UPI platform published by the NPCI. We thought it might be interesting for you to see data on UPI at Zerodha, as we are one of the largest merchants on the UPI platform and our client demographics — people […]