When the Ukraine war started about 8 months back, India was one of the early backers of Russia. At the outset, India refused to condemn the attacks by Russia and stuck to its stand that the West should have negotiated before imposing sanctions. Then,

Credit Suisse may have been in the reasons for all the wrong reasons in the last few years. From funding the family office of Archegos Capital to being caught on the wrong foot in Greensill, Credit Suisse has done most things wrong in the last few ye

The most recent poll by Reuters is hinting at another 75 bps rate hike by the US federal Reserve when it concludes the next FOMC meeting on 02nd November. Economists have hinted that the Fed is unlikely to pause on rate hikes until the inflation fall

In a rather surprising move, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed a steep penalty of Rs1338 crore on Google. Now, Google hardly needs any introduction. It has for long the rune the world’s largest and most powerful search engine. Googl

Recession warnings in the US having been doing the rounds for quite some time now. The question is; how severe would be this recession. Would it be unforgiving like the recession post 1929 (lasting for over 40 months) or would it be a relatively hard

Bank of America Securities cut its Nifty target by 1,000 points for the year ending December 2022. The original target for the Nifty was 18,500, which has now been revised lower to 17,500. Broadly, the broking house has blamed this downgrade on a num

For the month of September 2022, the US consumer inflation came in at 8.2%. That is still lower than the 9.1% recorded in June 2022. Now, consumer inflation in the US has been coming down rapidly but not as fast as the Fed would have liked. Also, con

The Fed rate hikes are continuing for now and the Fed would be relentless in its anti-inflation stance. However, the members of the Fed are totally confused with one thing. The idea of aggressive rate hikes was that it would impact growth to some ext

When TCS announced its quarterly earnings numbers, its 8.4% profit growth and 15.3% growth in revenues in constant currency terms were very impressive. However, behind this façade, there is a much deeper problem that Indian IT companies are up again

That is the million dollar question or rather a billion dollar question. Will Gold make a comeback as an asset class amidst the rising uncertainty in the global markets. Normally, when inflation risks are so high and the global macros are so volatile

There are fears of recession and there are fears of a slowdown in demand, but the US Federal Reserve appears to be unperturbed. In its latest indications, the Fed officials have almost underlined that the Fed would target 4.5% interest rate tar

Indian Unicorns (billion dollar start-ups) are facing a unique problem. In the last few months, several top PE funds have committed to infuse funds into start-ups and then backed out. There are two surprising aspects to this story. This is not about