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What Does the Dollar Index Weakness Mean for India?

What Does the Dollar Index Weakness Mean for India?

10 July 2017

A key highlight of the dollar has been its waning strength over the last few months. A variety of factors have been attributed to it like a reversal of the Trump Trade, cautious hawkishness from the Fed etc. But above all, it is also an indication that other economies are actually showing signs of strength. …

Repercussions of exits from White House on Commodities

Repercussions of exits from White House on Commodities

28 March 2018

What is common between Omarosa Manigault Newman, Steve Bannon, Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn? If you are still groping for an answer; all of them were close aides of Donald Trump but had either resigned or were asked to leave in the last 6 months. Normally, exits from the hallowed portals of White House are …

How the Global Market Cap Stakes Have Been Shifting?

How the Global Market Cap Stakes Have Been Shifting?

9 May 2017

Recently the global market capitalization of all listed stocks across the world touched a high of $72 trillion. Interestingly, the world market cap had touched a high of $67 trillion way back in 2007 at the peak of the global equity boom. When the sub-prime crisis struck and later Lehman went bust the global contagion …

US Fed Maintains Status Quo on Rates

US Fed Maintains Status Quo on Rates

9 May 2017

In the latest meet of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the board of the Fed opted to maintain status quo on rates. Thus the Fed rate remains in the range of 0.75% to 1.00%. It may be recollected that the Fed rate was hiked in December 2015 for the first time after a gap …

What to Infer From the FOMC Minutes?

What to Infer From the FOMC Minutes?

29 May 2017

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) announced on 24th May the minutes of the Fed meet held on 03rd May 2017. It may be recollected that in the May 03rd FOMC meet the Fed had chosen to maintain status quo on rates. The big debate now is over the number of rate hikes that the Fed …

Moody’s downgrades China: Could There Be a Spill-Off Effect?

Moody’s downgrades China: Could There Be a Spill-Off Effect?

29 May 2017

The last time that the Chinese economy was downgraded by a rating agency was nearly 3 decades back in 1989. That was in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre where the Red Army had rolled its tanks over a student protest resulting in the death of 10,000 students. Since the early 1990s, China …

Major World Events That Drive Markets in 2017

Major World Events That Drive Markets in 2017

5 January 2017

As we herald a new year, the real action could be on the global front. Year 2016 was quite eventful. On the political front, Donald Trump was elected as the president of the US against all odds. Surprisingly, Britain voted in favour of moving out of the EU (popularly called BREXIT). On the economic front, …

Key Takeaways From the Trump Speech

Key Takeaways From the Trump Speech

12 January 2017

A full 2 months after Trump was elected as the 45th President of the US, he addressed the press for the first time on January 11th 2017. There were a lot of hopes and expectations built around the Trump speech as key announcements were expected. However, it needs to be said that while the speech …

What are the Next Steps in the BREXIT Process?

What are the Next Steps in the BREXIT Process?

6 April 2017

With the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, officially sending the letter for exiting the EU to the European Union, the process of UK seceding from the European Union has officially begun. The BREXIT vote went through in June 2016 and the actually process of UK exiting the EU has started exactly 9 months later. From …

A tale of 3 PMI numbers: India, China and the United States

A tale of 3 PMI numbers: India, China and the United States

3 November 2016

The Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) is released for the previous month by IHS Markit on the 01st of next month. On November 01st, the IHS Markit released the PMI numbers for major world economies. So, what is the PMI all about? PMI is basically a barometer of the health of the manufacturing sector. The PMI …

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