The recent series of setbacks to Air India have highlighted serious issues. The concern is not just of aviation safety…
Even AS the recently announced bailout package by an EU?IMF combine has managed to provide some comfort to markets and…
There is widespread popular sentiment against the alleged indiscretions of Goldman Sachs in structuring and selling a…
RBI?s FY11 Annual Policy Statement was nicely balanced, with three broad facets. The monetary policy stance demonstrated….
In my column last week, I looked back on the key drivers of RBI?s monetary policy stance during the previous…
The ?surprise? rate hike by RBI mid-March has led to intense speculation about the next steps in the tightening sequence.…
Given the concerns of ballooning budget deficits, one aspect of government expenditures not visibly commensurate with its importance is the…
Benchmark 10-year yields, indeed the entire medium- and long-tenor segments of the yield curve, shifted up 10-odd basis points, a…
While markets seem to be anticipating policy rate increases at the third quarter review of the RBI?s 2009-10 monetary policy,…
Multiple initiatives are due to be introduced this year to reform the international financial architecture in response to the global…
A time traveller from the 1990s, landing in the urban India of 2009, might be surprised by the magnitude of…
Nothing to beat Shakespeare, really, for a pithy summary of the events and incidents recollected in the new book, by…
The recent discussions on monetary policy tightening following the persistent and disturbing increase in food prices…
Memories of currency markets since early 2007 still remain fresh in our collective memories, despite the intervening turmoil that had…
Reading RBI?s 2009-10 mid-term policy review is a bit like watching the film The Sixth Sense; every re-visit reveals a…
The first part of this article laid out the complex financial environment in which RBI has the difficult task of…
The half-yearly review of monetary policy by RBI (forthcoming on October 27) will be done in a remarkably complex economic…
The way that the US dollar has plummeted against some of the other major global currencies, particularly the Euro, has…
