HSBC has emerged as one of the best and strongest banks during the course of the global financial crisis, and…
The past year seems to have zipped through even more rapidly than these things are wont to. Paul Krugman in…
The India GDP data and growth numbers released on Monday are broadly in line with our expectations and are quite…
We hear ever-increasing dissonance about data on prices, and on an apparent paradox that has developed over the past few…
The news on Thursday last week of a surprisingly strong April-June quarter growth in Germany and France is only the…
At the launch of the book by Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy, only a few months after demitting office as Governor…
The Union Budget due to be unveiled on Monday is being awaited with more than the usual anticipatory thrill that…
The February IIP data showed that industrial activity had contracted by 1.2 %, continuing the contractionary trend over the past…
In a relatively infrequent, if not unique, occurrence in India, we are likely to see a couple of months of…
The behaviour of sovereign bond markets over the past couple of months has not only made life difficult for bond…
The RBI cut LAF repo and reverse repo rates by 50 basis points to 5% and 3.5% on Wednesday. A…
These days, the usual targets of central banks are inflation and growth, with short-term interest rates being the key instruments…
The economic conditions under which this interim budget is being presented are very different from those during previous election period…
RBI?s stance during its third quarter review of its 2008-09 monetary policy, although on expected lines, was more conservative than…
One surprising thing about the period of extreme financial markets turbulence in September 2008 was the speed and extent with…
The coming year 2009 was to be a landmark year in India?s banking history when the sector would be opened…
This last week, the US Federal Reserve cut its target rate more than expected to an unprecedented level close to…
Amidst the consternation about Indian banks? seeming reluctance to reduce their lending rates and the consequent moral suasion to induce…
