Bond insurers breathe a sign of relief!

With the news that Standard & Poor's affirmed its ratings for Ambac Financial Group Inc. and MBIA Inc., the Wall Street shot off as though Popeye had eaten a whole tub of spinach. These days any news, no matter the size, big or small is bound to get the markets up and going.

Everyone had thought that the Bond insurers were going to get rated down in face of their exposure to the Subprime mess, but that does not seem to be the case at least for now. For the moment, the ratings stand especially for Ambac group. Had the ratings dropped, the consumer confidence, or what little is left of it these days, would have headed all the way down. The Dow Jones industrials bolted the corral by 190 paces or to be more precise, by 190 points. Would the momentum carry on to tomorrow, let us hope that is the case indeed!

Hedge funds all set to rock wall street!

With rumors flying thick and fast, the investors are running for cover, just as the animals that know an earthquake is about to hit, make it for the hills. The rumor mills are obviously working overtime and just when we all thought that the worst has come and gone and that it is all uphill from now on, bang! Hedge fund problems start running the markets to the ground and even lower.

The day that we let rumors of the Hedge fund affect the market is the day that we have lost all reason and are grappling with straws. One such straw may be the Microsoft profits but that seems to apply only to the Tech sector. As it is the profits and leads that the Wall street may have made are disappearing into thin air. It is high time that we all take stick of the situation and take some measures to see to it that Hedge funds and the likes of it does not affect the market in the future!

Wall street in a flutter as the Fed slashes rates!

Under normal circumstances, the news of the Fed slashing interest rates by as much as 75 basis points would have bought the bull out on a rampage in the markets. But these days it seems that the bull has gone into hiding and is just not interested in coming out.

The economy is fast heading for a tailspin, so the Fed slashed rates as a way of preventing recession from taking hold. All that the Fed have managed to do is to make the Dollar even weaker and this slashing of the rates by as much as 75 basis points has not bought any cheer to the markets. The markets see it as an indication that the recession is not all that far away and that it is time to batten down the hatches.

The Wall Street seems to have been in two minds, with momentum swinging from the red to the green and all the way back to the red. This move by the Fed many have dumped about $50 billion into the financial markets but it seems that this latest move has no takers and could well rush the Dollar into some rather stormy waters.

Hoarding Gold at $900 an ounce?

With the Dollar seeing new lows against a hoard of currencies, it is time for the Gold to hit new highs as the traders seem to be intent on purchasing the Yellow metal as fears of recession seems to have set in. This is mainly due to the presence of the weak dollar, the already high demand for gold from the Asian countries and also due to the high Oil prices.

One would think that such high rates for the Yellow metal, at $900 an ounce, would soften the buying. But that does not seem to have happened as of yet, if anything, the frenzy seems to have gone from bad to worse in the last few days as the traders keep pushing up the gold prices to new levels.

The irony is that once upon a time, the Dollar was thought to be a safe currency and was pegged to the Gold itself. The delinking of the dollar from the gold happened way back in the ’70. But ever since then , the Dollar has been taking hit after hit, but none as worse as the current times seems to have delivered to it. As things stand, the gold prices are predicted to rise to new levels and one should not be too surprised if the gold starts hitting the $1000 level itself!

Pensions on the stock market!

The latest rumors that is doing the rounds in the finance ministry is the idea of investing the pension funds in the stock markets. The very idea of playing fast and loose with the pension funds is anathema to many a government person and the civil service for one is not at all pleased with the way that the finance ministry is operating business here in New Delhi. It is high time that the finance ministry woke up and smelt the roses, that the idea of investing the funds in a market that seems to swing with volatility between the bear and the bull is not acceptable to anyone here in India!

Wall street - Shaken but not stirred yet!

There did not seem to be much momentum in the markets today as the investors did not know how to react to the good news and the bad news. To say that the financial news was mixed would be an understatement of sorts, and naturally this threw the dealers and the investors into a loop. Although the markets had a nice momentum yesterday but that seems to be a flash in the pan now.
With big brokerage houses like E*TRADE being hauled over the coals for shoddy business practises, the financial market is being shaken from all sides. As to the future momentum, it all remains to be seen. There are rumors doing the rounds that the retail and the real estate markets are going to improve drastically but I would much rather take such rumors with a heavy dose of salt as these are the same people who told us that the credit crisis is nothing much to worry about!

Chinese stocks go a bit too 'shady'.

The recent bull run, which by the way is far from over, has made the Indian stock market the cynosure of nearly every investment firm with an eye to increasing its profits. As a result the FII's are dumping their money into the Indian markets in huge volumes. Although the Chinese stock markets have done well, and have even tripled their business, so as to speak, they are still a long way off from regulations and tighter rules.
India besides Hong Kong is the only second Asian Nation where the stock indices have crossed this 20 K mark. The Indian bourses are much more attractive because they show a steady growth and are more tightly regulated instead of the free for all kind of attitude in the Chinese markets. What is more, the sharp incline in the Chinese markets has already triggered a sort of an alarm that the market is overheating rapidly and is 'ripe' for some tampering. Who knows, we may even have a 'George soros' incident in the Chinese markets in the very near future!

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New dizzy heights for the Indian sensex!

With more and more FII inflows flowing into the Indian subcontinent is it any surprise that the Indian sensex is growing at a very tremendous pace and it has already reached the 17 K mark within 10 days.it is setting a record of sorts.but of course this also means that the Indian rupee is also growing in strength against the U.S dollar,which naturally means that the exporters will have to do much better if they expect to see the same amount of profits that they saw last year!

the 'Ripple' effect!

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The Bulls crack the Whip!

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