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Continuing from yesterday… Mr. Bond no longer a superstar Given my view that the yield curve is no longer a strong leading indicator, I pr...

The conventional market wisdom suggests that the bonds usually lead the change in market cycles. Traditionally traders have closely followed...

A friend recently remarked, “I don’t want to be young for the first time in my life”. He was alluding to the challenges Gen Z (born between ...

It was summer of 2013. The mood on the street was gloomy. The stock markets had not given any return for almost three years. USDINR had cras...

Continuing from my previous post ( Bull fatigue or bear charge ), I would like to share some of the important things I am presently watching...

In a keenly watched two-day meeting, the first after the inauguration of the new US President, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of t...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the US federal Reserve (Fed) obliged the market consensus by cutting its overnight borrowing rat...

Myth of free market A fundamental principle of economics is that “in a ‘free market’ current price of anything having an economic value is...

The Fed, BoE, and BoJ rate decisions are out of the way now. The S&P500, bond yields, USD, JPY, Gold, and Bitcoin, etc. have already mad...

Ending the weeks of intense speculation, anticipation and debate last night, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the US Federal Rese...

The life of equity investors appears to be becoming more tense with each passing day, regardless of the indices scaling new highs. This appl...

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell has provided the much-anticipated fuel to the US markets, which appeared running out of ...