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‘India Out’ in Bangladesh; stone-cold silence of friends of India
M A Hossain Since January 8, 2024, the ‘India Out’ movement is getting momentum in Bangladesh, basically at initiatives of popular online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya. Everyday dozens of Bangladeshis are joining this movement on social media platforms suc...
How should you respond to the decline in the dominance of the US dollar?
The US dollar, long regarded as the world’s global reserve currency, is facing growing speculation among experts about its long-term decline in dominance. Several key factors contribute to this outlook, raising questions about the future of global finance...
When literature scores over market algorithms
Matein Khalid Literature is often a better guide to navigate the emerging markets than the cold algorithms of modern finance. This is definitely true with the magic realism genre of Latin American writers like Argentina's Borges, Colombia's García Márquez...
Weak demand overshadows OPEC cut
Matein Khalid Saudi Arabia's unilateral 1 MBD output cut in Vienna last week did not trigger a credible rally in crude oil prices. Au contraire, Brent ended the week at $74.80 and West Texas a tad above $70, down 2%. Prince Abdulaziz's warning to the oil...
Odisha train tragedy points to govt’s moral bankruptcy
Girish Linganna The cries ae silenced. The dust has settled. The blood stains have all but faded! But there is a growing concern among the people of this country that the triple train tragedy in Odisha—one of the worst disasters since the Bihar train acci...
Fed rate hike: Revisit to 1980s
Matein Khalid The $7 trillion foreign exchange market can be merciless if you read its macro smoke signals wrong or ignore the hoofbeats of the leveraged herds who determine its positioning, politics of central banks, government policy and above all the p...
Election won, economy lost!
Matein Khalid President Erdoğan recalled his pro-markets ex-Wall Streeter Mehmet Şimşek as Finance Vizier and the head of MIT who negotiated his diplomatic rapprochement with Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE as Foreign Minister but all hell has bro...
Living with bubbles
Matein Khalid Bubbles are a recurrent phenomenon in financial markets, from Dutch Tulips in Rembrandt's Amsterdam to Kuwait's Souk al Manak, Japan's Nikkei Dow to the dotcom debacle in 2000, the credit bubble in 2007 to the crypto SPAC roller coaster in 2...
A sector full of nightmares and fairy tales
Matein Khald I have been fascinated by the global commodities markets ever since I lost a semester's tuition at Penn trading silver futures at EF Hutton. Family folklore tells me that my ancestral clan traded physical commodities in British India for gene...