Understanding Qualified Foreign Investors (QFI) and their impact on Indian capital markets Former Finance Minister turned President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee opened up doors of Indian Capital Markets on Jan 1, 2012 by announcing guidelines for investments...
Tribute to one of the intellectual giants of contemporary economics – Ronald Coase (aged 103), who passed away last month. Coase himself acknowledged in a speech a few years after winning the 1991 Sveriges Riksbank...
Examining property purchase taxes in India and the points to be considered by buyer while buying a property. The real estate industry is one of the most heavily taxed industries in the country. Property Purchase...
Understanding trading cost in algorithmic trading is very important and if one is aware of the various components, it helps in refining the business model. Also helps in creating a realistic revenue model and to...
The global trade with counterfeit drugs is booming – it’s an extremely lucrative business with potentially lethal side effects. Cross-border cooperation is trying to curb the deadly trade. The counterfeiters are unscrupulous: Painkillers are made...
After hearing enough rambling on FDI’s and its urgent need to stop Indian rupee fall, one is very curious to know about FDI and trying to understand what qualifies as FDI and what routes are...
Federal Reserve announcement of a possible Qe Tapering of its massive bond buying program, implying unwinding of easy or cheap money availability in emerging economies created jitters in emerging markets’ financial markets world over. But, the...
Our policymakers are pushing a US-UK economic model, driven by financial markets rather than banks. But our people, like Germans and Japanese, would have none of it. At the G20 summit in April 2009 where...
Companies with considerable export revenue are relatively better bet when INR depreciates. Indian currency (INR) has been weakening since more than a year but it has been more so in last couple of months. Since,...
Twitter has confirmed plans for a stock market flotation, the most anticipated launch in the technology sector since Facebook’s launch last year. The site claims over 200 million active users. Social media site Twitter has...
What is your view on the collapse of the rupee? This collapse is the result of two components: a reversal of the U.S. monetary policy last May, and a significant weakening of the Indian economy....
Re-looking at the Indian Tragedy Just a decade ago India was being promoted as a shining light of Asia, globally. India was dubbed as economically resilient and fundamentally sound by an army of Indian economic...
