Previous year has altered the political picture in striking ways. The most conspicuous change is in prime ministers: reclusive, modest, uncommunicative Manmohan Singh has given way to vocal, expressive, dramatic Narendra Modi. A less noticed change...
Japan could be the biggest risk to solar demand in 2015, as the country is facing grid connection issues and changes in FIT. Japan has seen a massive boom in solar demand in 2013 and...
As the government gears itself to present a full-fledged budget in a few weeks, the policymakers will have to do the balancing act of giving a boost to the economy along with getting the budgetary...
In a bid to transform India’s economy, PM Narendra Modi has pledged unlimited reforms at a summit in Gujarat. DW speaks to economist Rajiv Biswas about the likelihood of “Modinomics” succeeding across India. Speaking at...
Indian bond markets have being seeing volatility in yields since May 2013 when the news of imminent tapering of Quantitative Easing by the U.S Federal Reserve came to the fore. The yield volatility was largely...
The markets are an incredible aggregator of information. However, because of a tsunami of information, sometimes investors have difficulty in distinguishing the signal from noise. Let us try to help. Here we look at three...
When RBI declared the fifth bi-monthly monetary policy statement on December 2nd, Rajan chose not to change the key policy rates. The markets anticipating a rate cut were disappointed. However, the statement that “rates can...
The much awaited monetary policy of December 2014 miffed the markets and the economy. Anticipating a rate cut. The markets believed that RBI had a window to cut the repo rates. A cut in repo...
Notwithstanding the globally sharpening focus on multi-lateralism (read WTO, food security and trade facilitation) and pluri-lateralism (read Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnerships), we all want all our industries to flourish despite the increasing...
The run on the yen continues.The US dollar and euro are at new multi-year highs against the yen. The BOJ confirmed its JPY80 trillion monetary base target unexpectedly adopted at the end of last month....
India is not a member of the APEC notwithstanding its long history of cultural and commercial exchanges with several APEC members. While this might seem odd, the absence is not difficult to explain. India was...
At a summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, BRICS countries launched a slew of initiatives, including two new international financial institutions: A new development bank and a joint monetary fund. The leaders of five of the world’s...
