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Big mess around the dollar

The greenback's recent bout of weakness - exacerbated by a throwaway remark from Donald Trump - adds yet another layer of complexity to an already unsettled financial context. This latest disruption...

January 28, 2026 at 12:47 pm IST

Markets Are Calm. Everything Else Isn't.

This week, corporate earnings, interest rates, trade threats, currency jitters, precious metals, and a looming government shutdown are all colliding. What's striking is how calmly markets are...

January 27, 2026 at 07:28 pm IST

Silver, gold, indices… records keep tallying up

The corporate earnings season is entering a decisive phase. On Tuesday, LVMH will report its figures on this side of the Atlantic, while UnitedHealth, Boeing, Texas Instruments and General Motors are...

January 27, 2026 at 12:40 pm IST

Planting Hedges Early

America is having one of those weeks where everything looks fine, until you notice how tightly everyone is gripping the steering wheel. The U.S. economy keeps chugging along. Corporate earnings are...

January 26, 2026 at 07:34 pm IST

Flashpoints multiply across global markets

The increasingly turbulent state of international affairs is, ultimately, having only a limited impact on equity markets. As the final week of January begins, the month's performance is, overall,...

January 26, 2026 at 12:42 pm IST

The Market's Favorite Question Right Now: Is This a Return to Normal, or Just a Pause?

For a brief moment this week, investors are allowing themselves a small, fragile hope: maybe things aren't getting worse. After a sharp selloff earlier in the week, triggered by Donald Trump's threat...

January 23, 2026 at 07:30 pm IST

The week ends better than It began (Just about)

A geopolitical rollercoaster set the tone on markets this week, eclipsing the initial wave of earnings reports - most of which were poorly received, with names like Netflix, Intel, Abbott and several...

January 23, 2026 at 12:40 pm IST

Escalate, De-Escalate, Repeat

By the time Donald Trump arrived in Davos, nerves were already frayed. What followed was unexpected, to say the least. After insisting he would secure Greenland the easy way or the hard way, the...

January 22, 2026 at 07:32 pm IST

A strange framework agreement to ease the pressure

We had a close call, but you can now relax, even though we don’t really know what we narrowly avoided, how, or why, or even whether we truly avoided anything at all. That, in essence, is the summary...

January 22, 2026 at 12:39 pm IST

When America Starts to Feel Like a Risky Asset

For a long time, the global economy has rested on a simple assumption: when things get messy, America is the place investors run to, not away from. This week, that assumption started to wobble.

January 21, 2026 at 07:38 pm IST

Free-for-All in Davos

One year and one day after Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the world finds itself in a state of tension unseen for decades. The sharp deterioration of EU/US relations is unsettling the...

January 21, 2026 at 01:54 pm IST

Greenland, Tariffs, and the Quiet Revolt of the Bond Market

Donald Trump wants Greenland. Not influence, not cooperation - ownership. And he has paired that demand with something he knows well: tariffs. Lots of them. Against Europe. Against France in...

January 20, 2026 at 06:51 pm IST

Markets succumb to mounting tensions

The worsening transatlantic rift over Greenland triggered a sharp sell-off across European equity markets yesterday. Wall Street's reaction will be revealed with a lag, as Monday was a public holiday...

January 20, 2026 at 12:33 pm IST

EU and US Clash over Greenland

Financial markets displayed a degree of caution last week amid escalating tensions between the EU and the United States over Greenland. Over the weekend, Donald Trump appeared to vindicate their...

January 19, 2026 at 12:45 pm IST

Where the Money's Moving

The market's favorite sport right now is rearranging risk and calling it insight. Capital is shuffling between trades with the confidence of a crowd that refuses to miss out but cannot agree on what...

January 16, 2026 at 07:26 pm IST

The Chip Frenzy Resumes: Small is Beautiful

As we approach the first options expiration session of the year , investors are still fumbling through their 2026 strategies. They are seeking alternatives to AI behemoths, yet their love affair with...

January 16, 2026 at 12:39 pm IST

Rotation Tests Market Faith

Investors are rediscovering a basic truth of finance: when too much money piles into the same trade, the exits can feel suddenly narrow. The fashionable word is rotation. It describes a move away from...

January 15, 2026 at 07:32 pm IST