Minutes of the March meeting of the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) were released on March 18. In…
Some time last month, China held its National People?s Congress, which culminates in the China Develop-ment Forum. Stephen Roach of…
In the developed world, the talk is one of still rising interest rates. From time to time, greedy investors push…
The Federal Reserve Board of the US released the minutes of its Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on January…
When there are no expectations, there are no disappointments. However, there are a few things to commend. The Budget continues…
On February 15, the new Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, would testify to the US Congress on the outlook for…
On a rain-swept holiday morning in Singapore on January 10, I woke up to see two headlines on the Bloomberg…
It is the time for New Year resolutions. There are plenty to suggest for the Indian government. For starters, the…
Narendra Singh Sarila, a former ADC to Lord Mountbatten, had written a book about the partition of India. Apparently, at…
The Indian economy registered an impressive 8% growth rate in the second quarter of the current fiscal year, 2005-06. By…
Recent US economic data should assuage the Federal Reserve. Producer (or wholesale) price inflation rose at a fast clip in…
The Federal Reserve raised the overnight federal funds rate to 4% this week. There are some interesting clues as to…
This week we had the IMF economics department arrange a presentation by Raghuram Rajan in Singapore on their ?Global economic…
That two hurricanes, each with a category 4 or 5 force and wind spe-ed would, within a month, head towards…
Most of the bears were waiting for hurricane Katrina to validate their pessimism. It arrived and despite public protestations of…
Two weeks ago, this column discussed the tipping point in oil price. There is increasing evidence that the tipping point…
Global equity markets have had a good run since mid-May. Global growth has picked up, inflation is quite well-behaved and…
The issue of The Financial Times dated July 15, front-paged a news item on the likely revaluation of the Chinese…
