Last week I suggested that the key to ending the pandemic would be the willingness of younger people to be vaccinated. This week I want to go further and suggest that some priority should be given...
India has signed a series of Free and Preferential Trade Agreement with the aim of opening-up India’s economy, catalyzing the trade instrument for economic growth and employment generation. All trade agreements except few have resulted...
Initially, the markets built on Tuesday’s price action, but as soon as a few counties in Florida indicated that it was not going to be the “blue wave,” risk came off, and it was most...
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been shown to play an important role in promoting economic growth, raising a country’s technological level, and creating new employment in developing countries (Chaudhary, 2016). In the current scenario, when many countries are...
We remember the “world before”, marked by the rise of so-called emerging countries. Their weight in the world economy had crossed the threshold of half of the world’s GDP at the time of the 2008...
Only 3 business days to go, in what has been a challenging Q3! Take profits or put more money on the table? It could go either way, with a hangover in Q4. In July, I...
The two recent market developments, push lower in stocks, and higher in the dollar is continuing. Tuesday’s gains in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ were unwound on Wednesday and this is helping drag global markets...
Economic Insights: It always makes one thoughtful when the main moves in financial markets are in sovereign bond yields. The 30-year US Treasury (‘long bond’ ) yield rose by 21ps to 1.44% in the week,...
Agricultural debt is one of the dominant problems in rural India today and relief from debt assumes great significance to the agricultural borrowers. India had seen two big farm loan waivers- one in 1990, an...
The third decade of the 21st century is witnessing the biggest scatting, deadly, and the most cowardly attack on humanity. Covid-19 has hugely affected the lives and livelihoods of billions of people across the world...
The 24th Monetary Policy committee meeting has come as a reprieve for the banks and the NBFCs who were getting into a deep trouble because of ‘Moratorium’ and further impact of the same on credit...
The drop in US yields to new lows amid paralysis in Washington, except apparently over a lip-syncing app’s threat to US national security, sent the dollar back to its lows after a modest recovery in...
