Monthly Archives: October 2009

‘Dollar bears’ and ‘bullion bulls’ are making jackasses of us

(This column was published in DNA edition dated October 14, 2009.)   Venky Vembu Last week, the global currency markets were rattled by the detonation of what some analysts saw as a monetary nuclear bomb of cosmic proportions. A report … Continue reading

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Will oil lose its $ peg? Not so fast!

(This report, about a sensational write-up in The Independent newspaper that the Gulf oil states and a few other countries were discussing moving away from pricing oil in US dollars, was published in DNA edition dated October 7, 2009.) Venky … Continue reading

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