Just a day before the consumer inflation data was announced by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, the lead indicators had already indicated a tapering of the headline inflation. However, the eventual inflation for July 2022 at 8.5% was lower, but no

Some call Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway the last bull on oil but that is a trend that cannot be missed. For the first time in recent memory, Buffett has more than $45 billion invested in oil stocks, predominantly in Chevron and Occidental Petr

The good news is that the foreign portfolio investors have turned net buyers in equities since July 2022. FPI had sold close to $35 billion of equities between October 2021 and June 2022. However, in the month of July, the FPIs net infused $634 milli

Today, most people know of Microsoft and Apple as competitors and also as two of the most valuable companies in the world. Between them, Microsoft and Apple command a combined market capitalization of almost $5 trillion. Incidentally, that is about 6

It is not often that you expect Warren Buffett to go so wrong on his stock positions. But then, June 2022 was no ordinary quarter for the US markets. The Dow and the S&P gave up nearly 20% from the peak levels while the NASDAQ had given up more t

Just about a month back, the RBI had issued detailed instruction wherein Indian traders could pay for their exports and imports in Indian rupees. The view is that once the Rupee trade is introduced, then India does not need to denominate its trade wi

For a long time, Yes Bank has been making presentations to various PE funds regarding sale of a stake in the bank to a large private equity player. Finally, that may be approaching fruition. Just a couple of weeks after Yes Bank finalized the sale of

Before we get into this story in greater detail, let us first understand the difference between a hedged position and an unhedged position. A hedged position is a protected position and today it is possible to hedge your risk with the use of futures

The European Central Bank (ECB) had already signalled ahead of its meeting that a 25 bps rate hike was on the cards. But, in its meeting on 21st July, the ECB went a step further and hiked the rates by 50 bps, taking the markets by surprise. In

The previous week was data heavy with most of the key data points like the CPI inflation, WPI inflation, US inflation and trade data being announced. However, the current week will be the interim period between the data announcement and the actual FO

How do you judge the probability if the Fed will hike the rates by 75 bps or 100 bps. One way is to look at the CME Fedwatch. It is a measure of the probability of the extent of rate hike and the possible quantum of rate hike based on the rates impli

To add to the woes of the world economy, China's economic growth for the second quarter ended June 2022 slumped to just 0.4%. Clearly, the widespread COVID lockdowns have taken a massive toll on the economic activity in China. Now, China is not only