LOCKDOWN DIARIES – DAY 18- ECONOMIC IMPACT IS SEVERE PULLBACK RALLY TO STALL

This is Day 18 of the Lockdown which was supposed to be 3 days before the original lockdown ended. However in the conference call with the PM today most of the CM’s have asked for an extension till the 30th of April which I think is Fait Accompli now. The economic and market impact need […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES – DAY 15 A BEGINNING OF THE END ( No not of the world)

I decided to write after a gap of a day as usually it is tough to find new things to write every day and for the content to be useful and different. The last two days have been interesting in more ways than one. Day before I had written that markets will start moving up […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 13 DIARIES – PEAKING OF BAD NEWS?

We are now into Day 13 of the nationwide lockdown. From the Stock Markets perspective we are also in a three day weekend which is good in a sense as there has been no Stimulus News from the Government and the Economy continues to be in a complete lockdown as such the trading is biased […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 11 DIARIES – STATUS QUO CONTINUES

We are now into Day 11 of the nationwide lockdown. While the lockdown overall in India has been quite diligently followed and many cities and towns are almost totally shutdown. The main countries to monitor have been Italy and Spain to see when the curve flattens and starts to turn down. In India the average […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 9 DIARIES – A TOUGH TWO DAYS

We are now into Day 9 of the nationwide lockdown. While the lockdown overall in India has been quite diligently followed and many cities and towns are almost totally shutdown there have been areas of concern that have come about over the last two days of specific localized infections of Covid19 in a few places […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 7 DIARIES – GLIMMERS OF HOPE

We are now into Day 7 of the lockdown and yesterday was significant in many ways as there were lot of news flows which could be positive in the future which include J&J possible vaccine in early 2021 – Gilead’s remdesivir treatment in coming weeks – FDA oks hydroxychloroquine – Italy curve turning down and […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 6 – INDIA SEEMS TO BE MOVING FINE( FOR NOW) WORLD NO’s PEAKING OUT

We are now into Day 6 of the Lockdown and the last two days have been full of lot of information flow related to Covid19. Many governments have continued to announce new fiscal packages aimed at controlling the downside the their economies during the shutdowns which are at different levels in different countries. The No […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 4- THE COVID19 SAGE CONTINUES

We are now into day 4 of the Lockdown and I did write in detail yesterday. The significant developments yesterday and as I write now have been as below The US Congress passed the Relief Bill amounting to $ 2.2 Trillion and was immediately signed on by President Trump. This Bill is quite comprehensive and […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 3- RBI EMERGES AND WITH GUNS ALL BLAZING

As I promised I will be writing a daily blog till the crisis lasts so as to try and give a perspective on the way I see things and hopefully help some investors in the bargain. I did not put it out in the morning today as early morning there was an announcement that the […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 3- RBI EMERGES AND WITH GUNS ALL BLAZING

As I promised I will be writing a daily blog till the crisis lasts so as to try and give a perspective on the way I see things and hopefully help some investors in the bargain. I did not put it out in the morning today as early morning there was an announcement that the […]

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