LIC IPO caught the attention of the Indian masses and created a buzz across the stock market like never before. Since LIC IPO was announced …

Market Resilient Through Geopolitical Crisis: Confirms History
19 May 2022The years 2020 and 2021 have been unprecedented for the global economy. COVID impacted almost all countries, causing widespread disruption in the world supply chain …

RBI Monetary Policy: FY23 GDP Forecast Lowered to 7.2 Percent from 7.8
8 April 2022The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) forecasted a 7.2 percent GDP growth rate for the Financial Year 2022-23. According …

US Inflation Hits Fresh 40-year High of 7.9% on Rising Fuel
8 April 2022The surging cost of housing, gas, and food has catapulted to 7.9% inflation in the past year. Since 1982, this has been the sharpest spike …

Is the Indian Economy Slowing Down?
9 April 2020India’s Stalling Economy in 2019 India’s GDP growth has decelerated for the last 8 months. However, experts would argue that it’s been slowing down since the …

What Does Ban on Transfer of Physical Shares Mean for Investors?
16 October 2018On July 08th 2018, SEBI issued regulations pertaining to Mandatory Dematerialization for transfer of securities. Please note that these regulations only pertain to transfer of …

The Good News is That the Rate hike May Have Been Front-Ended
9 April 2020While the bond markets had factored another rate hike during calendar year 2018, they had really not bargained for two rate hikes in succession. But, …

Looking Back at One Year of GST Implementation
9 April 2020On July 01st 2018 the Goods and Services Tax (GST) completed 1 full year of implementation. A total of 28 meetings of the GST Council …

What Does the Italian Political Crisis Mean for Indian Markets?
4 November 2020The best gauge of economic worries in any country is the bond yields. When bond yields move up sharply in a very short time, then …

What Happens if the RBI Increases Interest Rates?
9 April 2020From the time the minutes of the last monetary policy were announced in the third week of April 2018, the bond yields on the 10-year …

April Monetary Policy 2018
6 April 2018The monetary policy announced by the MPC on April 05th had little by way of surprises. There was almost a consensus among the bond traders …

Lower H1 Borrowing Program by Government
4 November 2020When the government announced its H1 borrowing programme for 2018-19, two things stood out. Firstly, the first half borrowing in the coming fiscal is likely …