Rupee at 66: Why 'shorting India' is the 'in' thing for hedge funds
Arjun Parthasarathy • 12 years agoIndia has provided great returns to bears across assets. Shorting India is making money now. The question is when will the tide turn?
Rupee deposits: Why should NRIs be paid more than us?
Jagannathan • 12 years agoThe market for money is being completely distorted by a government running helter-skelter for dollars.
Forget dollar, Re 1 = 1.5 cents. Why India needs a new rupee
Jagannathan • 12 years agoThe rupee has fall to less than one-hundredth its purchasing power since 1947. It is time to create a new rupee where the old Rs 100 equals the New Re 1
Rupee hits 64: Five lessons from an avoidable man-made disaster
Arjun Parthasarathy • 12 years agoIt is not going to be easy rescuing the rupee in the short-term, but the whole world can learn how not to deal with a currency crisis from our example
As rupee plummets, govt bans duty-free import of TVs by airline passengers
Fp Archives • 12 years agoIndia will ban the duty-free import of flat-screen televisions from 26 August, the government said in a statement on Monday.
RBI's panic moves trigger market, rupee mayhem
Arjun Parthasarathy • 12 years agoThe RBI's ill-advised move to bring in capital controls has sent the markets into a panic. The moves have worsened a difficult situation
Capital control: As RBI shuts door, more investors may flee India
Choudhury • 12 years agoFor the first time since mid-2007, the advanced economies of Japan, the US and Europe are contributing more to growth in the $74 trillion global economy than the BRIC economies of China, India, Brazil, and Russia, according to Bridgewater Associates, which manages $120 billion in global investments.
Why Chidu's quasi-sovereign bond issue is a stupid idea
Jagannathan • 12 years agoA few months ago the country abandoned the idea of floating a sovereign wealth fund as infeasible. Now it wants to borrow through a quasi-sovereign fund - a 180-degree swing.