Monthly Archives: April 2018

Sensex Opens Marginally Up; FMCG & Healthcare Stocks Gain

Asian stock markets are higher today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares show gains. The Nikkei 225 is up 1.3% while the Hang Seng is up 0.2%. However, the Shanghai Composite is trading down by 0.5%. Overnight strong corporate earnings helped US stocks closed with gains. Meanwhile, Indian share markets have opened the day marginally up. BSE-Sensex is trading higher by 42 points and NSE-Nifty is…

China’s Monetary Shell Game

Throughout much of last year, we were told repeatedly that the PBOC was tightening monetary policy. China’s central bank had raised its reverse repo rate twice early on, and then once more last December (and would do so again just last month). These moves coincided with Federal Reserve “rate hikes”, seemingly in line with the…

No (Wall Street) Bank Left Behind

Times have been hard for Wall Street banks lately, what with record amounts of cash pouring in and causing all kinds of bookkeeping headaches. So — big-hearted people that we are — Americans stepped up and helped by lowering the banks’ taxes. From Today’s Wall Street Journal: The Four Biggest U.S. Banks Made $2.3 Billion…