MARKET PERSPECTIVE
Oct 11-17, 2025
251st Blog for AsiaConverge
It’s a hard rain that’s gonna fall!
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The good news of last week was some the release of 20 hostages in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and of several Palestinians captured by Israel,...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
2020 was NOT perfect vision
By J Mulraj -- Dec 20-26, 2020
The world would be happy to say goodbye (adieu) to a horrible year, rather than au revoir (till we meet again).
The Covid pandemic, the first case...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
June 10-16, 2023
… can lead to disaster
A question for readers - is the image above showing a pretty, young woman, or an old hag? Reader response to this optical illusion would be pretty much divided, equally....
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
NOV 15-22, 2025
Short term pain but long term gain
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William Shakespeare said this about men “The Evil That Men Do Lives on After Them, The Good is oft Interred With Their Bones”. This is...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Mar 6-12, 2022
The nightmarish consequences of an avoidable war
It really is a mad, mad, mad, mad world!
How did we end up here?
According to author of ‘The World is Flat’, Thomas Friedman, globalisation 3.0 started in 1990. Based...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 7-13, 2022
Geopolitics or Financial insanity, what will bring about another crash?
A black swan event is an unpredictable event which results in dire consequences (like the start of WW1 with the assassination of an Archduke or...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 17-25, 2024
India needs to make some resets
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were net sellers of Rs 1 lac crores of Indian equity last week. Betting, correctly, that Chinese authorities would introduce financial packages to help their...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
China taps global capital more efficiently
By J Mulraj -- Oct 25 - 31, 2020
It is paradoxical.
At a time when Covid has wrought economic havoc and has companies and banks running around to raise funds, there is a huge...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 8-14, 2026
Donald Trump is Considering Changes in LT Capital Gains
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Ahead of the US mid term elections on Nov 3, 2026, less than 3 months away, Donald Trump is considering some exemptions in...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Aug 8-14, 2021
Mistakes policy makers have made
And oh! what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
There are several examples of policy mistakes made, which land the country in a ditch, and subsequent...
