World Economy and Markets
May 13, 2010
China is recognized as the manufacturing hub of the world due to its low cost of labor and capital coupled with the pro industry policies of […]
May 12, 2010
Gold has gone up to touch all time highs. Despite the European Bazooka and the melt up in markets,gold has not come down from the highs […]
May 11, 2010
Europe’s $970 Billion Bazooka yesterday certainly led to a “defeat” of the “speculators” yesterday as major European markets climbed by 5% while smaller ones climbed by […]
May 11, 2010
Samsung has started taking baby steps into the green business while signaling big intentions about growth and investment.The Company sees most of the future growth to […]
May 10, 2010
The European leaders plan to blow away the Euro sceptics has been an outstanding “success” . The $971 billion plan by the EU,ECB and assorted central […]
May 10, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 7, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 4, 2010
For the last few days the Shanghai and Southern European markets of Spain,Greece and Portugal have been falling despite higher US stock indices.This is a bit […]
May 4, 2010
Greece agreed on a plan with EU-IMF which requires sharp spending cuts and tax increases on Sunday to get their hands of more than 100 billion […]
May 2, 2010
German Economy Minister and Free Democrat Party Leader ( FDP is one of the junior partners in the ruling coalition and stands for its pro-business liberal […]
May 2, 2010
As has been the fashion since the financial crisis began with Bear Sterns, bailouts are worked out during the weekends ,the Greece one also was no […]
May 1, 2010
One of my pet theories is that they we see a lot of distortions and oppurtunities for arbitrage is because labor is not globalized while capital […]
April 30, 2010
Markets were back up to previous levels after a bailout package for Greece got an assent from the Germans and the IMF.But the condition of southern […]
April 30, 2010
Copenhagen was a disaster and there has been no agreement on how to proceed with policies on a global basis to deal with the ever growing […]