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Monetary Policy - Old Wine in Old Bottle
2007-04-02 06:45:00 Prologue The Reserve Bank of India has surprised markets (once again) by announcing a slew of monetary measures. It includes Increase in the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 0.50%. This impounds approximately INR 155 bn of funds from the banking system. This is teh third time in the last four months that RBI has increased the ... More About: Wine , Monetary Policy , Policy , Bottle , Poli
Japan : IIP - Production grows moderately in Feb?07 (on an annual basis)
2007-04-02 01:30:00 Situation On a monthly basis Prod uct ion dropped down to a -0.19% growth in Feb’07 ( -1.73% in Jan’07 ) On an annual basis Production grew by 3.96% p.a in Feb’07 ( 2.86% p.a in Jan’07 ) According to the Surveyof the Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry, Production is expected to increase 1.5% in March and increase 1.3% in ... More About: Japan , Al B
Japan : IIP - Production grows moderately in Feb?07 (on an annual basis)
2007-04-01 01:30:00 Situation On a monthly basis Prod uct ion dropped down to a -0.19% growth in Feb’07 ( -1.73% in Jan’07 ) On an annual basis Production grew by 3.96% p.a in Feb’07 ( 2.86% p.a in Jan’07 ) According to the Surveyof the Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry, Production is expected to increase 1.5% in March and increase 1.3% in ... More About: Japan , Al B
Japan - Consumer Price Index (CPI) continues its drops into negative territ
2007-03-31 14:45:00 Situation Consumer prices - the main inflation indicator was down in Feb’07. On a monthly basis prices were down to -0.50% ( Jan’07 was at -0.20%). On an annual basis prices were down to a -0.20 % p.a ( Jan’07 was at 0.00%) Background The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised the uncollateralized overnight call rate from 0.25% to 0.50% on Feb 21 2007 ( ... More About: Rice , Price , Negative
Monetary Policy - Old Wine in Old Bottle
2007-03-31 05:25:00 Prologue The Reserve Bank of India has surprised markets (once again) by announcing a slew of monetary measures. It includes Increase in the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 0.50%. This impounds approximately INR 155 bn of funds from the banking system. This is teh third time in the last four months that RBI has increased the ... More About: Wine , Monetary Policy , Policy , Bottle , Poli
Japan - Consumer Price Index (CPI) continues its drops into negative territ
2007-03-30 14:45:00 Situation Consumer prices - the main inflation indicator was down in Feb’07. On a monthly basis prices were down to -0.50% ( Jan’07 was at -0.20%). On an annual basis prices were down to a -0.20 % p.a ( Jan’07 was at 0.00%) Background The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised the uncollateralized overnight call rate from 0.25% to 0.50% on Feb 21 2007 ( ... More About: Rice , Price , Negative
Indian money rates jump - CCIL reveals a hidden limit
2007-03-30 07:13:00 Money market lending rates (Overnight and short term) have shot up once again on Friday, after having eased significantly on Thursday. Rates for clean lending / borrowing hit a high of 70% per annum, while rates for borrowing against collateral have also hit new highs (50% as I write this). Financial year end considerations seem to be the driving factors. Compounding matters is the fact that this Friday also happens to be ... More About: India , Money , Indian , Dian , Hidden
Easing money trips the Rupee
2007-03-29 21:00:00 The Indian Rupee (INR) suffered its sharpest one day fall for more than a decade on Thursday. At close of local trading in Mumbai, INR fell approx. 1.6% relative to the US Dollar. It closed the trading session at 1 : 43.75 against the greenback. It had closed the previous trading session at 1 : 43.05 ... More About: Money , Asin , Trip , Sing
Euro area - New orders grow in Jan?07 ( but is this sustainable ? )
2007-03-29 09:24:00 Situation On a monthly basis - New orders were down to a negative growth of -0.19% in Jan’07 as compared to Dec’06. (growth of 1.76% in Dec’06 and 0.76% in Nov’06 ) On an annual basis - New orders increased by 9.99 % p.a ( growth of 6.41% p.a in Dec’06 and 7.22% p.a in Nov’06 ) Background Interest rates have ... More About: Euro , Euro area , This , New Order , Area
Malinga : 4 in 4
2007-03-29 04:19:00 Sri Lankan, Lasith Mali nga achieved a feat never achieved before in the game of Cricket. He took four wickets in four balls in Sri Lanka’s game against South Africa today. Not surprisingly, this has turned out to be the best game in the ongoing world cup so far. Savour the following description of the feat from ...
Indian Money Rates - Pleasure or pain
2007-03-28 13:12:00 Overnight Call Money rates rose in the India n money market today to over 25% p.a. Rates for borrowing against collateral are at a relatively modest 9.5%. Remembering that it was not too long time ago that rates were in their low single digits, that these things can be put in perspective. While genuine liquidity tightness ... More About: Indian , Pain , Dian
Banks and SLR
2007-03-27 22:35:00 I had recently come across an Economic Times article talking about the large purchases of government bonds that Indian banks had made in recent times (Unfortunately I’m unable to find a link to the URL of the article on the Economic Times website). Coming at a time of significant debate on the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) ... More About: Banks , Bank
The Abel Prize
2007-03-27 18:34:00 The Abel Prize in Mathematics for the year 2007 has been awarded this year to Chennai, India born Srinivasa S R Vardhan (pictured alongside). The Abel Prize is the closest that Mathematics has to the Nobel Prize. It was instituted in the year 2002 by the Norwegian Government. Vardhan currently teaches at the Courant Institute of Mathematical ... More About: The A
Pressure and it?s consequences
2007-03-26 13:57:00 Link from : the eminently readable PRD blog - who found it on www.despair.c om Finds a place here since market professionals can relate to it. More About: Press , Sequence , Consequence , Sure , Sequences
How much is enough?
2007-03-26 13:27:00 In his column in the Mint today (free registration required), Ramesh Ramnathan, ex- citibanker and founder of Janaagraha writes One morning, early in my banking career, a business manager publicly chastised a colleague for what seemed like a fairly minor infraction. ?Man, I wish I didn?t have to take this from him. Wish I had enough money ... More About: Enough , Much
A fine perspective on Sport
More articles from this author:2007-03-23 08:35:00 I can not help but digress once again from our theme of “Analysis of Market Economics“. Came across this superb perspective on sport by Sambit Bal of Cricinfo. Do Read. This is especially relevant given the current developments in the world of Cricket. Link via email from a colleague - Vaidy More About: Sport , Port , Fine , Spor , Perspective 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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