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Taibbi Again: The Witness That Cost JP Morgan Chase $9 Billion

Matt Taibbi brings you a story of JP Morgan Chase and a witness who, he says, cost the bank $9 billion. They were willing to pay that much just to keep Alayne ...

The Russian Ruble Continues to Fall, Loses 40% in 2014

The Ruble has crashed to 46 to a dollar. The currency has fallen from 32.6 in Jan 2014 to lose more than 40% in 10 months. Russia increased interest rates by ...

The Government Talks Austerity; Mid-Year Fiscal Deficit Highest in 5 years

We’re a little more than midway into the Financial Year 2014-2015: perfect time for a comparative analysis of the performance of the new government. How bad ...

The Fed Ends QE3, But It’s Not Going To Hurt

The US Fed finally ended their quantitative easing (QE) program yesterday. The program consisted of the federal reserve printing money to buy a truckload of US ...

Trade Deficit for Jun 2014 at $11.7 bn, Highest in 11 months

The trade deficit for Jun 2014 was at $11.7 billion, the most in 11 months (since Jul 2013). Imports at $38.2 billion were lower than the May number of $39.2 ...

Why Doesn’t The Government Sell 50,000 cr. of Shares It Holds in Private Companies?

We’ve been crying hoarse for the government to not be in business, that it needs to “divest” its holding in public sector enterprises. Why aren’t we ...

FCI Continues to Stock 3x Buffer Requirement of Wheat and Rice

The government continues to buy food and stuff its buffers but things seem to have come under some layer of control now. The Food Corporation of India (FC() ...

ECB Tests Negative Rates; Inflow into India Expected

Raghuram Rajan will be furious. One more insane monetary policy and he’ll have to bear the consequences. Mario Draghi at the ECB today announced an ...

Trade Deficit in April 2014 at $10bn, Total Trade Falls 7%

India’s trade data for April 2014 shows a continuing low trade deficit. With Exports at $25.6 billion (+5.3%) and imports at $35.7 billion (-15%) the trade ...

GDP Growth for FY2014 Revised Up To 4.9%, But It’s No Change At All

MOSPI has come out with two announcements recently. First, they revised earlier year GDP figures. 2011-12 GDP real growth was revised the second time, this ...