TAG: Weekender
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles
Dear Reader,Everybody in the markets now knows about the immediate causes of the recent bout of nervousness in the markets. The worse-than-expected US unemployment data triggered expectations of an imminent 50 basis points cut in the US policy rate, while...
2 months ago
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender: Q1 GDP numbers provide comfort on both consumption, private capex
Dear Reader,GDP data releases are non-events for the market, unless they presage policy action that could affect interest rates and corporate earnings. Since the real GDP growth of 6.7 percent in Q1, FY25 is lower than the 7.1 percent pencilled in by the...
1 month ago
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender: Fairy Tale Economics
Dear Reader,The September issue of the IMF’s Finance and Development magazine has an article titled, intriguingly, ‘Fairy Dust’s Economic Possibilities’ by Zachary Carter, a scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The reference to fai...
1 month ago
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Xi rides to the rescue
Dear Reader,The Chinese authorities lost no time in taking advantage of the leeway provided by the Fed rate cut to signal a policy turnaround of their own this week.On Tuesday, the People’s Bank of China announced that it would reduce the banks’ reserve r...
2 weeks ago