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A New Japan In Positive Rate Era
It has been more than five months since interest rates were increased in Japan after decades. Within this period inflation averaged...
Sameer Kalra
Jul 16, 2024


Elections,Central Banks & Gold : Part 2
The first 15 days of July have raised the heat and friction of the US election to a new high with direct violence taking place against...
Sameer Kalra
Jul 15, 2024


Elections,Central Banks & Gold
In the last three years, the world has gone through changes in geopolitics that have not been observed in the previous fifteen years....
Sameer Kalra
Jul 8, 2024


Central Banks at a Crossroad ?
It can be said that the current period is when every central bank has to decide on its road to take in terms of rate cuts, hold or hike....
Sameer Kalra
Jun 11, 2024


Month of June - Boom or Bust ?
The first 48 hours of June have been more than exciting for investors, especially the ones that focus on event-led moves. First, was the...
Sameer Kalra
Jun 3, 2024


Inflations, Tariffs & Rates
The US economic surprise index was at -23, a level last seen in August 2022 when the post-Fed started to halt rate hikes. This time...
Sameer Kalra
May 21, 2024


Reduction in Tightening Begins
Last week's Federal Reserve Policy statement and Chair Powell's discussion made it clear that tightening on all fronts seems to be...
Sameer Kalra
May 6, 2024


Commodity,Inflation & The Fed Reserve
Over the weekend two major events took place that might result in higher commodity prices for longer. First was the Israel - Iran...
Sameer Kalra
Apr 15, 2024


Central Banks Volatility Index Rising
On Friday USA Non-Farm Payroll data indicated that 300,000 jobs were added to the economy during March 2024. This surprised investors,...
Sameer Kalra
Apr 8, 2024


Japan : Land of Rising Rates
Today after 17years Japan entered a neutral to positive interest rate zone and it was after 8years of negative interest rate policy (...
Sameer Kalra
Mar 19, 2024


Inflation Rise to Delay Rate Cut ?
The consumer inflation data has come above estimated for two months straight. Given that analysts and other stakeholders are optimistic...
Sameer Kalra
Mar 18, 2024


Tightening to loosen before Rate Cut ?
In the past couple of weeks, the FOMC members have been talking about the speed of balance sheet reduction. They have also tried to...
Sameer Kalra
Mar 5, 2024


Fed Says - Ready, Steady But Wait
Last week inflows in money market funds pushed the total AUM above $ 6 trillion for the first time. All this money is continuously...
Sameer Kalra
Feb 5, 2024


Peak Rates comes with Peak Economy
Last week's inflation data provided another boost to the optimism trend that interest rates have peaked. To add further fuel to this fire...
Sameer Kalra
Dec 18, 2023


Inflation Relief Continues
Last week USA inflation-related data releases provided another round of relief as actual data was lower than estimates. In the last year,...
Sameer Kalra
Nov 20, 2023


High Yields & New Conflict - Awaits Fed
It has been more than a month since the last FOMC meeting took place. Since then bond yields have risen to new recent highs with 10-year...
Sameer Kalra
Oct 31, 2023


Inflation Risk - On or Off ?
Last week US CPI release was higher than estimated but as the markets focused on the Israel- Hamas conflict the reactions of financial...
Sameer Kalra
Oct 16, 2023


Fed Keeps the Hawk Alive
Last week the Federal Reserve continued to hold the current interest rates and it also mentioned that it will continue to make decisions...
Sameer Kalra
Sep 25, 2023


Jackson Hole - A Dull Summer Ending
Last week the most anticipated event of summer took place at Jackson Hole, an event where the majority of developed countries' central...
Sameer Kalra
Aug 28, 2023


Is BoJ Preparing for Lift Off ?
The majority of central banks have communicated some level of pause in the rate trajectory. One of them is the focal point for the months...
Sameer Kalra
Aug 1, 2023
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