Banking

Golden Rules To Picking Best Stocks For Newbies

by Shabbir Bhimani on February 10, 2013

You don’t need to be a financial expert to make money from market. This is what I have been telling everybody but one question that I get quite often in my mail as well as in Do It Yourself Technical Analysis Members Forum area is – How do I pick the right stocks from thousands of stocks that are being traded in the market.

{ 30 comments }

Do you withdraw money from savings bank account just before the need and not few days in advance to make few extra bucks for the money lying in your savings account?

{ 17 comments }

Very Innovative Savings Account by Barclays Bank called Sweep Deposit Account. The benefits of this account type are so many that I could not resist myself sharing it here for my readers.

{ 6 comments }

Bird’s view on Banking sector

by Shabbir Bhimani on November 12, 2009

For almost in 12 years, credit growth has dropped to single digit, at 9.66% on a year on year basis for the first time against a growth rate of 10.75% in the last fiscal as per available data. To protect and to maintain their books, banks had parked more than Rs.133,925 Crores with RBI through reverse repo window which is normally used to suck out the excess money from the system.

{ 2 comments }

Banking Sector result Analysis & growth outlook

by Shabbir Bhimani on October 28, 2009

Current results season has produced a spectacular picture about growth in industrial activities and services. Results of the banking sector depicts that the economy in general is maintaining its growth momentum.

{ 2 comments }

First Islamic Bank in India

by Shabbir Bhimani on September 2, 2009

Islamic Bank cannot be called a Bank because of RBI guidelines but it looks like time has changed and Kerala may have first Islamic Bank Next year.

{ 192 comments }

Canara Robeco FORCE Fund

by Shabbir Bhimani on August 7, 2009

Review and Analysis of how good is Canara Robeco FORCE Fund NFO, and whether it offers anything new and unique for the investors.

{ 0 comments }

No More High Value Check Clearing

by Shabbir Bhimani on May 5, 2009

RBI has, vide its circular dated April 13, 2009, made the following changes in High Value Clearing for metro centers. Following is the roll out plan for RBI

{ 0 comments }

Should I Invest in HDFC Bank ?

by Shabbir Bhimani on April 11, 2009

I would like to draw your attention to one of world class Indian bank and why you should invest in HDFC bank at current levels.

{ 13 comments }

Islamic Banking, Solution to current problem

by Shabbir Bhimani on March 15, 2009

For the successful Islamic banking operations, it will be on Government to implement Islamic banking. If not they should atleast provide bank status to Islamic finance institutes as they are termed right now do they can issue cheque and other such facility like banks.

{ 18 comments }

Understanding the present credit market situation

by Shabbir Bhimani on July 2, 2008

Corporate India is now feeling the “Credit Crunch” This type of environment was seen in the year 1995 – 1996 an now the cycle is repeating itself. Corporates have not yet pressed the panic button but they seem familiar with the signs that are coming towards them. Smart players who have already seen the signs [...]

{ 1 comment }

RBI creates a burden on home loan borrowers

by Shabbir Bhimani on June 29, 2008

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.

{ 1 comment }

Real estate, technology and banking sector analysis

by Shabbir Bhimani on June 10, 2008

Technology seems to have come out as a big winner from all that happened in the past 3 months. It is all because of the rupee. Since the rupee fell, technology stocks have been then bought. For example; Infosys is going up quite strongly. Also, MindTree is a second tier IT company to be taken into consideration.

{ 2 comments }

Sundaram BNP Paribas Financial Services Opportunities Fund is an open ended equity scheme which would be investing in banking, finance and money market related companies.

{ 7 comments }

Impact of budget on various sectors

by Shabbir Bhimani on March 23, 2008

I will be discussing the impact of the union budget on the sectors where I have some investment or planning to make some more investment.

{ 0 comments }