Case Shiller Home Price Index and the Base Effect

Posted on 31 July 2009

The Case Shiller Home Price Indices are constant quality house price indices for the United States. A number of Case Shiller home price indices exist: A national home price index, a 20-city composite index, a 10-city composite index, and twenty individual metro area indices. These indices were developed by economists Karl Case and Robert Shiller. (wiki)The Case Shiller Index has been one of the most keenly watched indices over the past few months. It has been argued (and perhaps ... Continue Reading

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Retirement Planner in Excel

Posted on 04 June 2009

Retirement planner in Excel will help you calculate your savings at the time of retirement. The Excel retirement planner takes in to consideration your monthly income, expenses, asset purchase over time, saving allocations and expectations of interest rates and asset appreciation to calculate the growth of your savings over a given period. You can download the retirement planner in excel here. All of us worry about the impeding retirement. How ... Continue Reading

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How This Bear Market Compares – NY Times

Posted on 13 October 2008

A problem frequently encountered with displaying multiple series with overlapping data points within a single line chart is that they just seem to entangle themselves. To get an idea of all the data point that a series represents, the user has to either mentally segregate it from the rest or click on it to highlight the particular line. The NY Times recently published a chart How This Bear Market Compares that tries to solve this problem by highlighting ... Continue Reading

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It’s all coming to and end now…..

Posted on 11 October 2008

......and sanity is going to prevail soon. I am an eternal optimist and my understanding is that the extreme volatility seen in the global markets signals that the capitulation is coming to an end. 6 months from today, we will looks back at this point and think what a fantastic opportunity it represented.After the worst is over, the markets will return to a level ... Continue Reading

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How the mighty have fallen

Posted on 05 October 2008

Below is a list of how much the global markets have fallen in the past year. The highs and the lows may not coincide with the beginning and end of the one year period. Data for week ending 5-Oct-08.S&P 500 52 week low: 1,098 52 week high: 1,576 Correction: 30%... Continue Reading

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Factors Affecting Real Estate Growth

Posted on 04 October 2008

Real Estate can and does appreciate. And prices can drift downwards too. I would classify the factors that decide on these movements as being:1) Local (Distance from central business district, prevailing living conditions in that area including offices, shopping malls, parks, entertainment centers, distance from major arterial roads, distance from landmarks such as airports, town halls etc.) 2) Regional or National (Growth rate of a country, Rate of unemployment, Rise in income levels, Rise in populations segment that can afford housing, ... Continue Reading

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