A Global Stock Market rout, turmoil in the Emerging market currencies, and a probable full-blown debt crisis, all prompted by a single tweet? While President Trump might have been pleased and would want to take...
Central bankers around the world are puzzled by the lack of inflationary pressures despite decent economic growth. Some of them are now blaming the so-called Amazon effect for the phenomenon. The Japanese central bank has...
For years on end, Turkey has been able to log astonishing growth rates. But economists are now sounding the alarm bells, saying that political uncertainties are not the only cause for concern in the coming...
So far the US, China, Euro Area, France, Italy, Spain and the UK have reported the first cut of Q1 GDP growth and all are either the same as for Q4 or lower and some...
Inflation is not only a key leading indicator of an economy that gives headwind direction to the anticipated pace of economic activity but also a factor that is capable of bringing down a government if...
In terms of postulates of both Purchasing Power Parity Theory and Portfolio Balance Theory of the exchange rate, the domestic currency is expected to have a depreciating bias. India with a higher rate of inflation...
For nine years, interest rates have fallen and the European Central Bank has fired up the economy with a flood of money. It is becoming increasingly clear that this cannot last forever. “With a sense...
Fresh eurozone economic data show that inflation has risen to just below the ECB’s key target, growth is accelerating and unemployment has hit a seven-year low, suggesting the bloc’s economy is finally on the mend....
China’s producer prices – which measure what is sometimes called “inflation at the factory” – soared 5.5% in December, from a year ago. This was far hotter than economists had expected, though they’d expected a...
Manmohan Singh is a man of history today; but for a long time he was in the centre of economic policy making. When she was Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi had once told him to control...
Deflation is portrayed as the great economic scourge. It exacerbates debt servicing costs and encourages consumers to defer purchases. Central banks in Japan and Europe have responded with aggressive, unorthodox measures, often combining asset purchase...
In 2013-14, money supply (M3) increased by 13.3%, real GDP by 4.7% and consumer prices by 9.7%. Money Supply growth is one of the factors contributing to inflation. The RBI, by keeping interest rates high,...
