Private sector banks might increase their lending rate to one percentage point (100 basis points). There is a possibility for many, to increase the rates by one percentage point from July1, 2008. This happened because of the inflationary pressure which has led to an increase of interest rates.
June 29th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | ContinuedArchive for June, 2008
Understanding inflation
It is important to understand the fact that when the inflation rate goes down, it does not mean that prices are actually declining. It only indicates that the rate at which prices are going up has slowed down to a certain extent.
June 27th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | ContinuedThe real reason why oil prices are rising
It should be pretty clear after the Iraq incident that United States is playing the oil game all over again but in a different way now. And this is the desperate gamble of a country whose economy is neck deep in trouble.
June 27th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 4 comments | ContinuedAppreciating risk management
It is a myth to believe that most risks are external. One cannot wait passively for events to happen and risk can thus be ignored till that point. Risk can neither be avoided nor eliminated completely. But without taking risk, no business can grow. If there were no risks, then we would not require managers.
June 22nd, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to deal with sudden wealth?
… Most of them may not be prepared for the consequences of sudden wealth. It has been found through a survey that 35% of lottery winners turn out to be bankrupts within a span of ten years.
June 22nd, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 2 comments | ContinuedDCF to calculate fair value of share price
The discounted cash flow (or DCF) approach describes a method of valuing a project, company, or financial asset using the concepts of the time value of money. All future cash flows are estimated and discounted to give them a present value.
June 22nd, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 81 comments | ContinuedUnderstanding India’s Infrastructure
Some of the examples are as follows: 1) Five years ago, LG Electronics, its B2b business stood at Rs.50 crore. Now it has become Rs.400 crore division. 2) An air conditioning company, “Blue Star” has targeted airport air conditioning as a major growth area. The firm has bagged 11 airport projects valued at Rs. 68 crore.
June 21st, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | ContinuedSeeing progress on the agricultural front
We will have to ensure that all of India is irrigated and that none of its area remains rain-fed because chemical fertilizers cannot be of much use in rain fed areas in order to boost agriculture production.
June 21st, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | ContinuedTaking drastic steps to reduce petroleum consumption in India
We are all aware of the event which happened when Reliance was not able to sell the petrol and diesel at the price that was equal to PSU companies. Several retail outlets of petroleum products within the country had to be closed.
June 20th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | ContinuedUnderstanding the high crude oil and low rupee situation
The crude oil prices have almost been doubled and rupee is slowly reaching to a level where it was in the late 2006. The crude oil has to certainly fall, otherwise, it will cripple the economy of India.
June 18th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | ContinuedTrusting the stock market, the other way
Three friends, Jack, John and Jim, where Jack and Jim holds 100 shares of company xyz. Jack sells his 100 shares to John at Rs. 2,500 when stock market was climbing like anything. After a week …
June 18th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | ContinuedUnderstanding the present unclear market
The same thing is likely to happen in Europe. Although governments in emerging economics have taken care of the citizens by shielding them from the rising cost of oil through subsidies, yet the recent price rise has forced them to raise prices. The growth will be dampening by such a happening.
June 18th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 2 comments | ContinuedFutures and Options perspective of stocks
Open interest in RELIANCE has gone up with rise in prices. Open interest in TATASTEEL has gone marginally down with marginal rise in prices. The gain in OI with rise in price indicates as well as drop in OI with fall in price indicates strength in counters.
June 16th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s high time to introduce price discipline in airlines
GoAir and Spice Jet is likely to offer airfares that are going to be as low as Rs. 0-99 as the basic fare. Since, the off peak season will be taking off between July and September, airlines are getting ready to fight yet another hurdle. It’s about the hurdle of low passenger load factor. Passenger load is expected to come down, anywhere from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
June 15th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Anil and Mukesh Ambani in action
If you check, you will notice that Reliance Power has fallen from 450 (275) to 180 and RNRL has fallen from 180 to 86. Reliance Communication’s falls from 840 to 540. This shows that ADAG’s (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) is bad and also Reliance Communications is equally bad like RNRL, REL POWER and others.
June 15th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | Continued