MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 28- Mar 5, 2025
The mistakes made by Zelensky
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The title of the column is a line from the song ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ sung by singer songwriter Janis Joplin. Perhaps Ukrainian President...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Feb 17-23, 2024
Biden’s failed policies are destroying it!
On assuming office as President, one of Biden’s first acts was to ban the Keystone Pipeline, a project to transfer, through the pipeline, Canadian crude to US refineries, and...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
April 21-28, 2023
To swallow or to protect?
Being a leader of a world power imposes onerous responsibilities on him. After WW II, USA became the dominant economic power, and its currency, pegged to gold, became universally accepted...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Apr 20-26, 2024
IMF warns America to cut spending
At its spring meeting in April, the IMF warned USA, and China, about their excessive levels of debt, advising both to lower their borrowings, for fear of profound impact...
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
March 16-22, 2024
The huge GST collection should be used to improve social indicators
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated recently that India will become a $ 5 trillion economy by 2027-28, from the $ 3.7 tr. it is,...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Apr 17-23, 2022
Technology can bring down costs, but over the longer term
By: J Mulraj
First the bad news.
Besides the senseless deaths, injuries and disruptions of lives of 4 million Ukrainians, the economic fallout of the Russian war...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Jun 6-12, 2021
Will the Fed raise interest rates?
In 2013 Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke stated that the Fed would, at some time, put a brake on its Quantitative Easing (QE) programme, under which it pumped money...
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
By J Mulraj
Sep 12-18, 2021
The positive and negative factors facing markets
Global stockmarkets, riding on dollops of liquidity from QE programmes, are riding high. Looking forward, there are a few blessings for Indian stockmarkets, plus some factors which could...
