2010

May 10, 2010

BP Oil Spill Gives another Excuse for the US to delay the climate Bill

The US has been a laggard on the climate change mitigation compared to the progressive stances taken by Europe and Japan.Despite strong hopes raised by the […]
May 10, 2010

Europe brings a $670 Billion Artillery to battle the "speculators"; We shall defend the Euro whatever it takes – New Battle Cry

As promised the European leaders chalked out a massive 500 Billion Euros Fund to battle against the “speculators” . This fund will provide emergency lending and […]
May 9, 2010

Lufthansa to use BioFuel in its Planes to Reduce Costs of buying Carbon Certificates

Lufthansa is going to mix biofuel with kerosene for its planes starting from 2012 . The EU is mandating the ETS system for the flight industry […]
May 9, 2010

Greek Contagion – Hong Kong's IPO market shudders to a halt

As I was writing in my earlier posts , one of the biggest causalities of The Greek crisis has  been the  world IPO market.Not only have […]
May 9, 2010

Greek Contagion – 15% Oil Correction has Kuwait asking OPEC to support Prices

The last week’s sharp decline in commodities and stock markets has a lot of people making half baked statements while others are panicking . We had […]
May 9, 2010

Greek Contagion – India's Chief Economic Advisor thinks that India might "Benefit" as a "Safe Haven" if Crisis is "Contained"

India’s chief economic advisor thinks that India could benefit from increased capital flows if the Greek crisis is contained at the present level. How he thinks […]
May 9, 2010

SEC moves to create new rules while they can't figure out what caused the 1000 point Dow Crash

SEC as is the case with most regulatory agencies, is trying to create more rules to prevent the 1000 point crash that happened on Thursday.From the […]
May 9, 2010

Spanish Leaders Blame "Speculators" and "Britain" for the Greek Contagion

As I have been writing in my earlier posts , EU leaders are continuing to put the blames of the EU debt crisis on “speculators” and […]
May 8, 2010

Repercussion of China's Internet Espionage of Indian Sites – Huawei and ZTE banned from India

China has recently been in the news over Internet Espionage on defense and sensitive installations in India and USA. This has led to the high profile […]
May 8, 2010

German Court Refuses to Block Aid to Greece ;Top Economists Complaint Rejected

Good news for the Bailout Cheerleading Gang as the top German Court refused to block the emergency aid to Greece which had been approved by the […]
May 8, 2010

Greek Contagion – Portugal Plays Good by accelerating Deficit Reduction

The last 2 weeks market gyrations have had their effect on the PIIGS. The rising interest rate on their bonds and the consequent effect on their […]
May 8, 2010

Greek Contagion – Sarkozy and Merkel indulge in favorite pastime of blaming the "Speculators" ; EU to set up Stabilization Fund

Last week the markets were hammered due to the spreading of the Greek contagion with Euro falling , sovereign debt CDS of the PIIGS increasing daily […]
May 8, 2010

Green Weekend Readings

Choosing an Alternative Energy ETF – Seeking Alpha Gives a good idea on which ETFs are out there to invest in green technology,though you would have […]
May 7, 2010

Nokia losing the Smartphone battle with Apple, Tries to extract Patent Revenue by Suing

Nokia has been losing marketshare,brand appeal  and pricing power in the mobile phone market since it reached its peak with Motorola self destructing.After that it has […]
May 7, 2010

Tough Environment for Green IPOs due to Market Volatility

Green IPO’s which were being planned with the recovery in the world economy and renewed interest by investors have shuddered to a halt.The European debt problems […]
May 7, 2010

Greek Contagion – CAC down 5% in mattter of minutes, VIX up nearly 100% in 2 days

Greece was given an aid package by EU-IMF to contain any contagion effects but looks like it has failed miserably.No one knows how this one will […]
May 7, 2010

Another Greek Crisis Casualty – EU Carbon Prices Fall from 17 Month High

EU Carbon prices which had gone ups after the 2009 lows on the back of economy recovery are also falling again.Would make sense since the economy […]
May 7, 2010

Memory Makers make Chips while the Electronics Market Shines – Toshiba predicts Profits to Double

Toshiba today forecast that its profits would double due mainly to its NAND operations. In 2007 and 2008 , memory makers across the world saw their […]
May 7, 2010

Czech Solar Feed in Tariff (FIT) Story of 2010 follows the Spanish Crash of 2009 closely

We all know what happened in Spain in 2008.Due to extremely generous feed in tariffs for solar , installers went on a spree installing 2.5 GW […]
May 7, 2010

Greek Crisis Casualty – IPOs all over the World get pushed to the Backburner

One of the biggest causalities of The Greek crisis has  been the  world IPO market.Number of companies all over the world are deferring their IPOs seeing […]
May 7, 2010

The rise of the Chinese and the fall of the Japanese in the Solar Rankings

IMS has released the top 10 suppliers of solar panels for 2008-2009.What is striking about the the rankings is that the Chinese solar companies have improved […]
May 7, 2010

Has India decoupled from the World Markets ?

India has very low exposure to the current European debt crisis. The reasons for that are: India’s export to GDP ratio is much lower than that […]
May 7, 2010

Why is VIX still up more than 50%,Yen up 5% against Dollar While US markets have recovered after falling 8%

The rush to safe haven assets today was frightening to say the least.As I write this VIX went up by more than 50% while Yen is […]
May 7, 2010

US Markets Drop more than 8% , Dow down more than 900 points ;Where is the PPT

Markets are dropping like a rock. Went down more than 4% in less than a minute.Seemed like that the whole financial system was unravelling. The European […]
May 6, 2010

Nokia continues to lose Marketshare,Brand Appeal and Pricing Power

Nokia’s trajectory  has been going downhill from the peak reached when Motorola nearly self destructed. Now it looks that Nokia is following the same path as […]
May 6, 2010

Why Indian Stock Market can be Hazardous for Investing – Lack of Information,Regulation and Enforcement

While Indian Stock Markets have progressed a lot in terms of disclosure and regulation with  market regulator SEBI introducing numerous reforms in the last decade or […]
May 6, 2010

China's market continues to sink – Harbinger of larger problems?

Recent newsflow from China suggest that the country’s real estate market is poised for a sharp slowdown and the heavily controlled financial sector is sitting on […]
May 6, 2010

We only eat meat in our dreams and possibly on holidays – Income Disparity in Egypt

The growth in income disparity around the world is striking.The internationalization of capital and trade has led to increasing amounts of income for the top percentiles […]
May 6, 2010

India Junk IPO Market – Cattle Feed Company "Tara Health Foods" gets No One to Chew

The Indian stock market  has been hit with  low quality offerings over the recent past  with improvement in the general market conditions.I was wondering whether the […]
May 5, 2010

Technology Wars -Smartphone Market sees Microsoft making an Entry with Kin

As I was writing in my earlier post , consolidation in the technology market is creating Technology Behemoths competing in large parts of the technology spectrum.Microsoft […]