India foriegn reserves...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=INMORES$:IND

Passenger Cars

From - http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_17.html

Just to put things in context

- US population ~300M

- Car Sales every year between 50M-60M for past 15 years

- New car sales/lease 17M and used car sales 41M for 2007

- New car sales/leaves revenue is more than old car sales revenue even tough the volume of used cars is more than twice the new cars/leases.

- Average cost of a passenger car is 13.5K. New car - 27K and used car - 8.2K.

From - http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_22.html

US manufactured 9%(4.3M) of all passenger cars produced by the world in 2006. Japan produces more than double the US - 9.7M. Germany with 5.4M comes second.

Random numbers...

Very cool - 

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html

Even though most of the numbers here are old, the reports have links to their sources which are up to date.

China lending rates

From bloomberg - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=CHLR12M:IND

Two rate cuts in a week.. wow. Rates are back to Spet 2007 level..

China Export Growth

From bloomberg - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=CNFREXPY:IND

Still growing at 20% yoy.. but below 2007 levels.

Lets take a look at the imports too - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=CNFRIMPY:IND

TED Spread

From bloomberg - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=.TEDSP:IND

As we move closer to resolution of the current crises, TED spreads should move lower towards their normal level.