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The US Federal Reserve (Fed) announced on 24th May the minutes of the Fed meet held on 03rd May 2017. It may be recollected that in the May 03rd FOMC meet the Fed had chosen to maintain status quo on rates. The big debate now is over the number of rate hikes that the Fed …

The last time that the Chinese economy was downgraded by a rating agency was nearly 3 decades back in 1989. That was in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre where the Red Army had rolled its tanks over a student protest resulting in the death of 10,000 students. Since the early 1990s, China …

To understand the end of the end of the Trump Rally, one needs to first understand what the Trump rally was all about. When Trump was voted to power in November 2016, it raised hopes that Trump would live up to his promises of cutting individual and corporate taxes as well as investing $1 trillion …

Recently the global market capitalization of all listed stocks across the world touched a high of $72 trillion. Interestingly, the world market cap had touched a high of $67 trillion way back in 2007 at the peak of the global equity boom. When the sub-prime crisis struck and later Lehman went bust the global contagion …

In the latest meet of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the board of the Fed opted to maintain status quo on rates. Thus the Fed rate remains in the range of 0.75% to 1.00%. It may be recollected that the Fed rate was hiked in December 2015 for the first time after a gap …

The much awaited tax announcement of Donald Trump came in on 26th April. Most of the tax cuts proposals were along expected lines. Here are some of the key highlights of the Trump tax proposals:   The corporate tax rate will be cut from the current level of 35% to 15%. This is likely to …

In its Spring Review of the growth potential of various economies, the IMF has gone ahead and raised the growth forecasts for the key economies. For the world GDP as a whole, the growth forecast for full year 2017 has been raised from 3.1% in 2016 to 3.5% to 2017 and further to 3.6% in …

The Trump government has been getting tough on the H1-B Visa regime ever since he assumed power in late January. Firstly, Trump put the issuance of emergency H1-B visas on hold for a period of 6 months. These were special cases where visas could be obtained within a month by paying a higher fee. Indian …

With the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, officially sending the letter for exiting the EU to the European Union, the process of UK seceding from the European Union has officially begun. The BREXIT vote went through in June 2016 and the actually process of UK exiting the EU has started exactly 9 months later. From …

The American challenge for Indian IT industry continued over the weekend. American challenges are nothing new for the Indian IT industry. For the last 5 years, Indian IT industry has been facing up to challenges like the slowdown in BFSI segment, weakness in telecom & hydrocarbon verticals, negative growth in tech spending, shift to digital …