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by Ajay Shah. Many firms are developing Covid-19 vaccines. Enormous resources have to be deployed, up front, to develop a vaccine and to bui...

by Surbhi Bhatia, Anjali Sharma , Susan Thomas . When options are actively traded, a new fact about the economy is revealed in option pri...

by Parikshit Kabra. A spectre is haunting global capitalism - the spectre of Donald Trump. A big question looming over the global financi...

by Nidhi Aggarwal and Chirag Anand . The arrest of a London based algorithmic trader, Navinder Singh Sarao, on charges of triggering th...

by Rohini Grover and Ajay Shah. A remarkable feature of options trading is that it reveals a forward-looking measure of the market's ...

by Nidhi Aggarwal , Rohini Grover, Susan Thomas . A recent article in the Business Standard by Praveen Chakravarty and T. V. S...

by Anjali Sharma . Background India has a successful equity market and has done poorly in other aspects of organised financial trading...

I have a column in the Economic Times today titled The attack on the market for the rupee is a mistake . You may like to also see: Il...

I have a column in the Economic Times today titled Do not mourn rupee fluctuations . The methodology for identifying dates of structural...

Taxation of transactions in India began with the equity market in 2004. Prior to 2008, the securities transaction tax (STT) was allowed as...

by Shashank Bansal. Until recently, outsourcing by global financial firms to India conjured up an image of commoditised low end services...

The next interesting development after ICE trading of rupee futures : CME will launch rupee futures soon also. See CME follows ICE into rup...

Intercontinental Exchange has announced cash-settled futures on the Indian Rupee and the Brazilian Real [ press release ] [ Saabira Chaudhu...

My previous blog post , on not cancelling trades after a fat finger trade, elicited some interesting email conversations. In a nutshell, th...

When inexplicable things happen on an exchange, many people argue that those trades should be cancelled. I think it is useful to be clear a...