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Sameer Kalra
Sep 24, 2024
Global Stock Markets on a High
In the last four quarters summing into a year now, the global equity proxy fund (URTH) has risen by 30%. Despite geopolitical tensions...

Sameer Kalra
Sep 23, 2024
The Fed Action had a stronger Reaction
Last week, the Federal Reserve surprised a lot of stakeholders by cutting rates by 50bps without a crisis going on. This move was...

Sameer Kalra
Sep 17, 2024
Global 3yr Cycles - Bonds,Forex,Stocks
While global investors await the Federal Reserve's decision on Interest Rates, the US bond yields have already reduced from 4.2% to 3.6%...

Sameer Kalra
Sep 10, 2024
Low Price of Oil - Sign of Worry ?
Since July 2024, the price of crude oil has fallen from a high of $88/bbl to the current low of $71/bbl. In a normal economic scenario,...

Sameer Kalra
Sep 9, 2024
Volatility Insanity Returns - Week 6
After the first two weeks of volatile volatility, the levels reduced for the next three weeks and returned to where they began. Last week...

Sameer Kalra
Sep 3, 2024
Volatility Insanity Returns - Month 1
It has been a month since the Volatility Index ( VIX) of the S&P500 turned insane and rose from level 16 to 65 within three days. This...

Sameer Kalra
Sep 2, 2024
Global Bond Market at Inflection point ?
In the last two months, International Bond ETFs have witnessed a return of 6.5% similar to November- December 2023. The difference this...

Sameer Kalra
Aug 27, 2024
Wars Enter a New Stage of Escalation
During the past few weeks, the ongoing conflicts between Israel-Iran proxies and Russia-Ukraine have reached new escalation. Last weekend...

Sameer Kalra
Aug 26, 2024
Powell gets a Hole in One
The last 72 hours have been another round of volatile events but this time one was positive and another negative with limited impact. The...

Sameer Kalra
Aug 20, 2024
Manufacturing Slowdown Started ?
During July, the first hint of a manufacturing slowdown appeared globally. In the past two years, the global economy has witnessed a...

Sameer Kalra
Aug 19, 2024
Volatility Insanity Returns - Week 3
Today is the start of the third week since VIX spiked from 17 to 65 within 48 hours. But since then, certain changes in events have led...

Sameer Kalra
Aug 6, 2024
Volatility Insanity Returns - Day 2
In the past 24 hours there have been many speculations of a Fed emergency rate cut and due to this Fed rate swap market is now factoring...

Sameer Kalra
Aug 5, 2024
Volatility Insanity Returns
In last three trading sessions VIX has almost doubled from a low of 16 to high of 30. The crude oil OVX has increased from 28 to 40....

Sameer Kalra
Jul 30, 2024
Crude Oil Price at Critical Level
Since December 2023 crude oil prices have been in a range of $76-$86/bbl and this has resulted in stable energy prices that have led to a...

Sameer Kalra
Jul 29, 2024
East & West Central Banks Decision Time
This week might be the most anticipated in the Central Bank policy calendar as the Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve Bank meet on the...

Sameer Kalra
Jul 22, 2024
Elections,Central Banks & Gold : Part 3
It has been only three weeks since the betting market started to factor in President Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 elections and last...

Sameer Kalra
Jul 16, 2024
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 15, 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 8, 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 2, 2024
Geopolitics Impacting Financial Markets
At the start of the year, all participants agreed on a US recession and rate cut from June onwards. This kept equities stable from...
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