Over the past few weeks we relocated from New York to sunny California, and I took a break from the markets. Will be back in action soon.
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Over the past few weeks we relocated from New York to sunny California, and I took a break from the markets. Will be back in action soon.
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During third week of March I had argued that the Euro’s spike up against the Dollar would not last and recommended shorting the Euro against a basket of currencies dominated by commodity driven currencies like the Australian Dolla (FXA) and the Canadian Dollar (FXC). I had added a comment to relative underweight of the Canadian [...]
Tags: General · Macro · Trading
The major rating agencies have been in the thick of credit market disaster. During the housing boom, they failed miserably in evaluating the risk associated with mortgage backed bonds and their derivatives. Their failure resulted in bonds with junk quality risk, getting investment grade, even pristine AAA ratings. This cost investors all over the world [...]
Crude Oil’s relentless march towards the near term spike target of $150 is now threatening to send the Global Economy into a recession. Big Oil companies (Exxon-Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A), BP (BP) and ConocoPhillips (COP)) are in the thick of the controversy as the rising price of oil has seen their [...]
Tags: Energy · General · Macro
The TATA Nano was finally unvieled today. I was surprised at some of the negative press the car got:
It is unsafe
It is environmentally unfriendly
Who will supply the gas
This article in the American does a great job in dispelling these myths.
The folks who are talking about this have no idea about where this car will be [...]
Tags: General
Tags: General
So started Senator Obama’s victory speech after the results from Iowa caucuses came out. Polls were showing an upswing for Senator Obama but the margin of victory was much higher than anticipated. Edwards second place showing has really weakened Hillary Clinton. Ironically, all the three Democratic front-runners were talking about change. However, Obama sounds the [...]
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It is very likely that 2008 will be an eventful year.
The nukes in Pakistan
2008-08-08: Olympics in China
The housing market and the sub-prime mess
The Elections!
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Welcome to The Inquisitive Mind. I will share my thoughts about a variety of issues of interest to me:
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