The early part of every month is usually busy with US data releases. Two of them draw the most attention.…
At first glance, the title might seem to be bizarre. The point is that Bin Laden had helped bankers? bonuses…
When Mr Abe took over as the Prime Minister of Japan, he had to contend with North Korean missiles. Now,…
The United Nations Conference on Trade & Development published its annual World Investment Report in mid-October. This report is a…
In less than a year of winning re-election, Mr Koizumi resigned from the prime ministership of Japan. Far from being…
The 2006 World Bank/IMF meetings in Singapore are now part of history. G7 finance ministers and central bank governors issued…
My last piece on September 2nd was on investor complacency. I expand on the theme here. In these two weeks,…
An article in Bloomberg earlier this week on investor attitude to risk (?What risk? Oil, gold, stocks show investors ignore…
Two weeks ago, there was a news item in the London Telegraph that the Bank of Italy had been shifting…
Q: Mr Chairman, we are very anxious to hear from you on the outlook for the monetary policy and the…
The US 10-year treasury yield is quietly heading towards 5.0%, unmindful of surging prices of crude oil and base metals.…
The Federal Reserve pushed up the target for the overnight Federal funds rate to 5.25% on June 29. That was…
It has been a month since the rise in volatility and the correction in global financial and some real assets…
A small sentence in India Today (May 22, 2006) says it all. The Prime Minister and the finance minister had…
Let us run through the headlines from emerging markets?that asset class heralded as having arrived in the last few years.…
The Indian Express reported recently that the Indian media enjoyed greater freedom than the US media. It might well be…
