โBitcoinโ โ almost everyone has an opinion on it! Bitcoin, along with other coins in Crypto Land, have seen a steep correction in last few days.
Let's use this fall to simplify and de-jargonize the complicated world of Bitcoin.
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๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ: Bitcoin was born in chaos, in the aftermath of 2008 financial crisis โ banks collapsing, counter parties abetting on contracts and declining trust in Central banks. It was designed as a peer to peer decentralized monetary system devoid of intermediaries.
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The domain Bitcoin.org was registered in Aug 2008 and the Bitcoin paper (bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) was published on Oct 31, 2008. This started the journey of Cryptocurrency.
It's a new week and a pleasant rainy morning here in Mumbai!
Grab some tea/ coffee as we share some snippets and readings from the week gone by that we found interesting. #MultipieWeekly 1/n
1. Interesting slide from CRISIL that depicts the trend of raw material cost inflation across industries and their ability to pass on the cost to end user (pricing power).
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2. General and health insurance companies are seeing a major spike in Insurance claims as a result of larger than anticipated second wave.
Source: Business Standard
๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ: In this thread, we will highlight select extracts from company presentations that we found interesting.
PS: None of it is an investment advice. #Q4withMultipie
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1. L&T Infotech: Between 2019 and 2021, LTI has deepened its' capabilities and offerings into top tier of partners across key platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Services Now and Snowflake. #Q4withMultipie
2. Supreme Industries: Supreme has market leadership (or among Top 3) in each of its segments - Plastic piping, furniture, packaging and industrial products.
Both P&L and Balance sheet look stronger at FY21 end as highlighted. #Q4withMultipie
We are starting our Q4 and FY21 results coverage starting today. Updates will be added in this thread.
๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ: List of companies that have been reducing total debt between Sep' 19 & Mar' 21 (S. No. 1-12) #Q4withMultipie 1/n
๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ: List of companies that have been reducing total debt between Sep' 19 & Mar' 21 (S. No. 13-24) #Q4withMultipie 2/n
๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ: List of companies that have been reducing total debt between Sep' 19 & Mar' 21 (S. No. 25-36) #Q4withMultipie 3/n
It's a new week!
Here are are some snippets and readings from the week gone by that we found interesting.
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There is a debate brewing up whether the current Steel rally is structural or cyclical. The mgmt of Tata Steel says this is not just cyclical (source: Q4 earnings call).
Munger has a word to say about Cyclicals.
Meanwhile Iron Ore Futures are up 10% today. What do you think? 2/n
As the second wave ravages the economy, Ministry of Finance has sounded off industry about downside risks to growth. But the market is unrelenting.
PS: Cases in Tier 1 cities are showing some respite.
One interesting development during the week was that Bajaj Finance got RBI approval to issue and operate SEMI-CLOSED Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPI) with PERPETUAL validity.
Here is an explainer thread ๐งต on what this means for Bajaj Finance and potential implications. 1/9
What are PPIs?
PPIs are instruments that facilitate purchase of goods & services or interpersonal money remittances, etc, against the value stored on such instruments.
While PPIs aren't entirely new (remember Sodexo coupons, Edenred cards), it was formalized by RBI in 2017.
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How is it different from Credit Cards?
Prepaid payment instruments come with a pre-loaded value and in some cases a pre-defined purpose of payment (more on this later).
PPIs makes it more convenient to get credit at the retail store, or to get an EMI without a physical CC.
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