I have some Interesting General Markets(not stocks) analysis to share here

Indian households have typically been wary of investing in stocks. Data from the RBI shows that bank fixed deposits are the most preferred investment avenue for Indians. Primarily because they are conceived to be much safer despite the lower yields. In an economy with no provision for social security like in the West, safety of investments is paramount. However, the stock market scams and bubbles wherein many investors lost their shirts are also responsible for the low exposure. Unfortunately, each time Indians warmed up to investing in stocks, a scam or a bubble hit the market. As a percentage of GDP, Indian households' investment in stocks nearly halved in the past decade. It has come down from the highs of 8% in FY95 to 3.5% in FY10.

Nevertheless, as they say, every clouad has a silver lining. And in this case, the silver lining is equity investments not being restricted to the metro cities. Equity research as well as trading services have become more accessible. Thanks to the penetration of the internet to the smaller town and cities. As a result, cities like Kochi, Rajkot, Hyderabad and Pune accounted for 5.4% of the total cash turnover of the National Stock Exchange in FY10. While Mumbai continues to dominate with 56% share, the other metros lag with single digit shares. What is encouraging is that the share of smaller towns has grown exponentially over the past two years. And we hope that this trend continues. What would be interesting to see is whether the interest in equities sustains in event of markets correcting. After all only then will Indian stockmarkets have the ability to do away with dependence on FIIs.


Edited by riser3 - 18/Aug/2010 at 6:24pm

The US and certain European nations are grappling with very high debt burdens. And yet they enjoyed triple AAA credit ratings. In effect putting a question mark over the rating practices of agencies themselves. However, the prolonged bleak picture in the developed world has compelled rating agencies to have a re-look at these ratings. And so, Moody's has stated that the top AAA ratings of the US, Great Britain, France and Germany are 'well positioned'. But these countries could face new challenges that would increase the possibility of a downgrade. Most of these governments injected massive doses of liquidity when the crisis was at its peak. That yielded some benefits for a short period. But have not done much in bolstering the recovery process. Meanwhile, most of them have been saddled with dollops of debt. This should be reason enough to downgrade their ratings further. But Moody's for some reason chooses to defer the inevitable.

good effort

I would like to draw your attention these snippets are delivered for membership Capitline News Arc. Which delivers news. The ironic thing is they sell the same to institutional investors as well as mutual funds as well as websites. so wherever you see it is their content. However about the copyright factor I'll checkout with my manager if it permitted to share selected data which might be not as important in an discussion forum. I think the content I selected is pretty harmless(nothing like Alert notifications) and moreover it is like sharing a page from a book which I have bought(in this case my bank).

one more thing. I just called my friend(he is the source) who gave me this thing and he said that they infact source it from different news papers. so pretty complex as far as copyright is concerned will check it out 2moorrow
meanwhile  you can find about it here

http://www.capitaline.com/new/newsarc.asp


Edited by riser3 - 18/Aug/2010 at 8:21pm