World Economy and Markets
June 6, 2010
The G20 Meeting between the Financial Heads of the the G-20 Countries exposed the rift between the world’s 20 most important economies.The issue of fiscal deficits,exports […]
June 4, 2010
Eastern Europe moves to the spotlight Seems these days Friday equals to Red for the “Risky Assets”.Eastern Europe had moved to the periphery of world’s attention […]
June 4, 2010
Can IMF Bailout a Country the size of Italy The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is funded through contributions from its member nations, acts as the “lender […]
June 4, 2010
The German Solar Feed in Tariff cut scheduled for July 2010 has got another twist with the Upper House of German Parliament Bundesrat not passing the […]
June 2, 2010
India has agreed to allow telecom equipment manufacturing equipment from ZTE and Huawei after banning them due to security concerns. Hectic lobbying efforts by Huawei/ZTE,Chinese trade […]
June 2, 2010
Spanish Cajas have been in the news recently acting as the equivalent of the “subprime sector” during the US financial crisis.CajaSur was seized by the Spanish […]
June 2, 2010
China is already the world’s largest producer of Solar Energy Equipment with almost 50% of global marketshare and is looking to dominate the Wind Energy Industry […]
June 1, 2010
British Petroleum shares have crashed by almost 33% since the news of the Gulf Oil Spill broke out.Despite BP being a stable mega cap Energy company […]
June 1, 2010
China has been called the “savior” of the world’s economy as its massive $586 billion Government Stimulus and Easy Money policies sustained over 10% GDP growth […]
May 30, 2010
The spectacular growth in Asian economies like China,South Korea,HK,Taiwan over the last two decades has raised millions from poverty to a middle class life.This has led […]
May 30, 2010
Pakistan has been in the news for banning Facebook,Youtube and Twitter as pages from Facebook reportedly offended the sensibilities of the Islamic religion.Instead of just banning […]
May 29, 2010
The Greek Contagion throws up bad news everyday.Not a day passes by it seems when the Markets and the Euro are rocked from the PIIGS.The Spanish […]
May 27, 2010
The recent sharp correction in the S&P and other US indices has been the biggest since the March 2009 Rally.The US and other Global Stock Markets […]
May 27, 2010
I had earlier written about Seven Reasons for Not Subscribing to the Standard Chartered IDR based on a high level analysis.Going through the massive 811 page […]
May 26, 2010
Europe has been recently been rocked by problems in Spain’s Banking sector as Spain’s central bank was forced to seize a Priest led Bank “CajaSur” which […]
May 26, 2010
India could join the elite ICBM club of 5 countries next year with the launch of Agni – V whose design work has been completed and […]
May 25, 2010
The Greek Contagion has led to indirect negative effects in unlikely places all over the world with the Swiss Central Bank being one of the casualties.The […]
May 25, 2010
The Greek Contagion continues to negatively affect the world markets and the Euro.Despite a short covering rally in the Euro last week,it has not managed to […]
May 24, 2010
Hedge Funds are generally regarded with a lot of suspicion and frequently accused by politicians of unnecessary speculation and irresponsible behaviour.But unlike politicians of many countries […]
May 23, 2010
The sharp appreciation of the yuan against the Euro and the other currencies would make China think of depreciating the yuan against the dollar rather than […]
May 22, 2010
Pakistan started by banning Facebook as one of the pages had a cartoon drawing competition of one of Islam’s revered figures. A group of lawyers petitioned […]
May 20, 2010
A Chronology of the Greek Contagion 1) Markets get spooked by the Greek crisis ; IMF/EU Bailout deemed insufficient 2) European markets and risky assets take […]
May 20, 2010
Conglomerates across the world have started signaling their attention to become big players in the Green Industry which is predicted to be one of the biggest […]
May 19, 2010
Merkel and Sarkozy Declared War on Euro Speculators 2 weeks ago when they unleashed a massive $1 trillion bailout for the debt ridden “Club Med’ countries […]
May 19, 2010
For some time I have noticed that European Union has been coming down very strong on anti trust actions and price fixing against technology companies . […]
May 19, 2010
Twin Shocks Hit Markets as Germany Bans Naked Short Selling and US Senate puts Curbs on Credit Cards
Markets have become a very risky place both on the long and short side with governments coming up with new “bailouts” and “regulations” almost each day […]
May 17, 2010
The Euro’s rapid 15% decline against the Euro has had an important side effect against the Yuan which is pegged to the dollar.While currencies around the […]
May 17, 2010
Technology has consolidated around 5-10 big players around the world who are gobbling up smaller companies and using their huge cash hoards to outspend the competition.Nothing […]
May 14, 2010
The Greek Contagion is back with full force with its attendant symptoms.Only last week these symptoms had shocked us with its ferocity.Last week I wrote in […]
May 14, 2010
The European Bazooka which led to a massive short covering rally on Monday has been proven a complete waste in just 5 days. Reports of political […]