Financial market participants often desire to make accurate decisions and predictions. Amid the pressure of being correct in financial markets, let us reflect on what billionaire investor George Soros calls the real measure of success, which is the profit earned when right and the loss faced when wrong and not just being correct. Quote of…
The Economic Survey 2026, released on Thursday, flags a growing and deeply concerning vulnerability in the global economic system in the light of rising geopolitical risks and economic turmoil. While global growth and trade have held up better than expected so far, the Survey cautions that resilience may be deceptive, with negative effects expected to…
As financial markets settled into an unusual state of tranquility, with stocks slowly grinding higher week after week and bond yields hovering in narrow ranges, many on Wall Street started to prepare for a sudden jolt. US benchmark stock indexes sank more than 2%, the dollar slid against most major currencies and 30-year bond yields…
Chinese households are scouring for higher-yielding investments as roughly $7 trillion in time deposits come due this year, a shift that could provide additional fuel for the nation’s financial markets. The mountain of savings is a legacy of a prolonged real estate crisis and years of lackluster stock returns, which prompted millions to seek the…
