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Is Market Bottom In Place ?
In the last few days, S&P 500 has risen by 300 points almost 8% from the lows. This has made some headlines calling the usual "everything...
Sameer Kalra
Jun 2, 2022
What is VIX telling us ?
For beginners VIX is the Volatility index, it is the measure that has an inverse relationship with the asset price it tracks. There are...
Sameer Kalra
May 26, 2022
Foreign Investors Exit China
China s not only facing the pressure of covid lockdowns on the economy but the pressure is also coming from the regular outflow of the...
Sameer Kalra
May 23, 2022
Retail Trader Club - Goes Dark
As central banks push up the rates and reduce the liquidity. the most favourite club, their retail traders are not to be seen anywhere on...
Sameer Kalra
May 20, 2022
Two $10Bn Deals in a Day - Peak Inflation ?
In the last twenty-four hours, there have been two $10Bn deals announced and both of the deals are in the commodity sector in one or...
Sameer Kalra
May 16, 2022
Bouncing of the Blank Cheque
In the past two years, many outlets of finance have prospered given the lowest cost of funds in decades with ample liquidity. Within such...
Sameer Kalra
May 13, 2022
Unstable Phase of Stable Coins
For many people who are unaware of the concept Stable coin, here is a simple definition. At every and any point of time in the perfect...
Sameer Kalra
May 12, 2022
Market Transition from News Flow to Funds Flow
For more than twenty-four months financial markets including housing markets have been news flow driven as funds have been on a constant...
Sameer Kalra
May 6, 2022
Has the Inflation Peaked for Now ?
This week the inflations numbers were released throughout the world. And it was accompanied by various headlines mentioning how many...
Sameer Kalra
Apr 14, 2022
March Madness Has Just Begun
As the first week of March comes to a close it can have no other name than March madness month. It was getting some stability but this...
Sameer Kalra
Mar 7, 2022
Economic Damage of The War
On 24th February 2022, Russia started a large-scale military operation in Ukraine. This resulted in not only geopolitical issues but also...
Sameer Kalra
Feb 28, 2022
Sanctions - An Economic Boomerang
As Russia officially recognised two sections of Pro-Russia territories in Ukraine, the western world announced various sets of new...
Sameer Kalra
Feb 23, 2022
Breaking Up - UN of Banking
In the 1970s due to a regulatory challenge, many domestic banks in the USA had a decision to make. The decision was simple either shut...
Sameer Kalra
Feb 18, 2022
Financial Markets of 2022 - Trial Balloon Or Bubble Burst ?
It has been almost forty-five days since 2022 and the start of the year could not be more volatile for the financial markets. The equity...
Sameer Kalra
Feb 14, 2022
The "Free" Money has Come Home
In the next two months, it is going to be two years since Federal Reserve Bank started the first round of stimulus that was the QE 4...
Sameer Kalra
Jan 28, 2022
The Game of Acquisitions
Within the last two weeks, the gaming industry has seen large acquisition proposals worth $81 bn in total, but an even more...
Sameer Kalra
Jan 19, 2022
Cross border Capital Real or A Mirage ?
Let us start with an example, Petrobras has a subsidiary in the Netherlands and that company raises funds via bonds and transfers those...
Sameer Kalra
Jan 14, 2022
SWIFT - Russian Roulette
If you think that the global banks do not use messaging services for cross-border transactions then you are wrong. It is known as Society...
Sameer Kalra
Dec 20, 2021
Tightening Too Much Will Break It
The crucial season of central banks policy meetings has begun and till now decisions are undecided. On one side China has reduced the...
Sameer Kalra
Dec 9, 2021
Crypto Universe and The Blackhole
If some of you do not know what the term blackhole means, let me explain in brief that it is an occurrence in the galaxy that has intense...
Sameer Kalra
Dec 8, 2021
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