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U S A…..United States of Abattoirs ! ….Strategy going forward

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USA…What a slaughterhouse !…Bears & Sterns….Now Lehman,Merill Lynch,American International Group…all inside two days….with more to come !….Comical really…those who lived in Glass Houses were throwing stones at others…..Their Reports were always revising or even reversing estimates and projections and strategies advised earlier to justify every share price rise and fall !….how could you then sensibly …

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It’s got to be the Biggest Speculative Play in Oil and the Dollar !

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Just a strong reflection…..we’ve seen huge abnormal speculative play in going Long on Oil and shorting the Dollar at the beginning of the Year 2008….Oil flared from US $ 70/barrel to more than double crossing US $ 145/barrel without significant change in supply or demand……and the dollar hit record lows earlier in the year…The Rupee …

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USA thinks WTO stands for We’ll Take Over !

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The WTO Talks at Geneva collapsed yesterday after nine days of deliberations…These talks were part of the DOHA Round that originated years ago…….the stalemate continues as USA refuses to budge on quantum of it’s agricultural subsidies to it’s farmers….It agreed to a cap of US $ 15 billion every year,but this makes little sense as …

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RBI Announces Rate Hikes to Curb Inflation… It’s neither in Control of Inflation nor itself as Policy leaks ahead of Announcement ! !

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Dr Y Venugopal Reddy, Governor, RBI, today presented the First Quarter Review of Annual Statement on Monetary Policy for the Year 2008-09 http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=18886 RBI has raised the repo rate by 0.5% to 9% and the Cash Reserve Ratio by 0.25% to 9% to curb Inlation This was inevitable with Inflation trying to cross 12%…. Expect …

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Trust Vote Today : Singh is Kinng ! Singh is Kinng ! Singh is Kinng! ?

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There is a trust vote in the Lok Sabha today as the ruling UPA Government will attempt to prove it’s majority with new support from the Samajwadi Party and after the withdrawal of support from the Left And there is a reason why I’ve sang in chorus thrice the current hot favorite song “Singh is Kinng !” in the blog’s …

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G 8 Summit in Hokkaido…not so Gr8 !

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From ” The Economist “ of July 12,2008 ….the summit was a let-down…G 8 leaders rose to the challenges posed by the “three Fs”-food,fuel and the financial credit crunch-with platitudes The big disappointment was over climate change…despite…Last year,Germany’s chancellor,Angela Merkel overcame the reluctance of George Bush and got the G 8 to promise to “consider seriously” …

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