Fed-friendly feeds: Subtle economic influence of social mediaBetween January 2022 and August 2024, the Federal Reserve executed its most aggressive interest rate increases since the 1980s, raising rat...
23 Sep, 2024, 02.11 PM IST
Smartkarma Research: Why a financial crisis could be the bulls' best hopeIn Fed Chair Powell's speech, he underlined that tight monetary policy will “bring some pain to households and businesses” but vowed to “ke...
08 Sep, 2022, 11.54 AM IST
Wall Street floats 100 basis-point Fed hike as inflation stingsWhile the consensus expectation for the US central bank’s interest rate increase at this week’s meeting is a half-percentage point, higher ...
13 Jun, 2022, 09.59 PM IST
The hideous strength of the U.S. DollarBar a handful of outliers, including the Brazilian real and the Peruvian sol, the dollar is omnipotent versus pretty much every currency in...
03 May, 2022, 04.00 PM IST
Stagflation: Have the central banks scheduled a rerun of That 70s Show?Fears of stagflation may not be unfounded as data suggests we are in the midst of a stagflation-type shock. But are we right in comparing t...
16 Apr, 2022, 11.22 AM IST
Be very cautious but put your bet on these 5 sectors: Ajay Bagga“If one has to invest in the market now, these sectors could be the top bets – financials, oil and gas as well as cement because coal price...
15 Apr, 2022, 01.56 PM IST
Explainer: Past Fed hiking cycles, from sanguine to severe, may say little about this oneThe aim of rate-increase cycles like this are to temper consumer and business spending. If interest rates on home equity loans rise, for ex...
17 Mar, 2022, 12.24 PM IST
Fed chair Jerome Powell admires Paul Volcker. He may have to act like himPowell was asked this month if the Fed was prepared to do whatever it took to control inflation - even if it meant harming growth, as Volck...
15 Mar, 2022, 11.25 AM IST
Bond traders gird for more pain after biggest loss since 1980The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Index has sunk 4.25% over the past three months.
01 Apr, 2021, 07.20 AM IST
Donald Trump needs to thwart recession-prone history of GOP presidentsOf course, as the saying goes, past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results and the billionaire developer may well avoi...
21 Dec, 2016, 12.12 PM IST
Trump may bring back an economic disaster from 1970sSince the election of Donald Trump, economists and analysts have once again begun to bring up the idea of stagflation hitting the US econom...
21 Nov, 2016, 12.08 PM IST
Raghuram Rajan comfortable with current policy rate"Rather than administer shock therapy to a weak economy, the RBI prefers to dis-inflate over time," the Governor maintained.
26 Feb, 2014, 09.53 PM IST
Banks seen at risk five years after Lehman collapseSystem still too leveraged, complicated and interconnected to withstand a panic; regulators ill-equipped to head off a crisis.
11 Sep, 2013, 05.08 AM IST
Economy facing stagflation: C RangarajanC Rangarajan, PMEAC chairman, is the first high ranking policy maker to declare that economy faces stagflation, a state of high inflation, ...
13 Mar, 2013, 05.00 AM IST
India is a very good investment: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman SachsThe ferocity of the crisis facing the firm, with politicians and regulators hot on its tail, has compelled the firm’s CEO Lloyd Blankfein, ...
21 May, 2010, 01.58 AM IST
- Goldman Sachs sees bigger role in Indian economy
In India, where Goldman Sachs has invested about $2 bn, Mr Blankfein sees the bank playing a more important role in the economy. How EU rul...
21 May, 2010, 01.17 AM IST
- Fed's Yellen outlines rate policy dilemma
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen on Wednesday said the Fed is grappling with preventing 1970s-style inflation whil...
15 May, 2008, 04.59 AM IST