Opinion Markets roll back fears of big ground invasion A recent Bloomberg report notes: Asked on Friday whether Israel should delay the ground operation, President Joe... Updated 26 Oct, 2023 06:34am
Opinion War and change in the Middle East Once again war is poised to shake the political calculus of the Middle East. For, it’s always war, never peace... Updated 12 Oct, 2023 06:34am
Opinion Bond vigilantes and inversion anxiety One of Wall Street’s enduring lessons, “inverted yield curves don’t always predict recessions, but all... Updated 05 Oct, 2023 06:45am
Opinion Quintessential Riyal Politik Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammad bin Salman’s recent interview to Fox TV was a classing exercise in... Published 28 Sep, 2023 05:33am
Opinion Only and only elections… Here’s a scenario. The president doubles down on his deadline for the election, the supreme court agrees that it... Published 21 Sep, 2023 06:08am
Opinion Army and the rupee An old Indian friend, editor of an international newspaper in the Gulf, asked last week if it was alright to run a... Updated 14 Sep, 2023 06:28am
Opinion Bad news for Asian FX, esp PKR Pakistani monetary authorities can only count their sorrows as King Dollar’s unrelenting advance pushes Asian... Published 07 Sep, 2023 06:21am
Opinion It begins… Why do you think the only thing to come out of emergency cabinet meetings – to do something about these protests... Published 31 Aug, 2023 06:00am
Opinion He said, she said… How hard is all this to untangle, really? The president says he told his staff to return the Official Secrets... Updated 24 Aug, 2023 06:47am
Opinion Return to the gold standard? Mr Market remembers mid-August as the time when, on 15 August 1971, US President Richard Nixon interrupted the hit ... Published 17 Aug, 2023 03:49am
Opinion Path of maximum uncertainty The market’s given a roaring farewell to the coalition government (up about 20pc since the SBA) but – write this... Published 10 Aug, 2023 06:35am
Opinion Fed doublespeak Traders with long US equity and long dollar positions that laughed all the way to the bank after the Fed’s latest... Updated 03 Aug, 2023 06:34am
Opinion Taxing work and subsidising non-work Turns out that there’s a Salaried Class Alliance (SCA), based in Karachi, which describes itself as a... Updated 27 Jul, 2023 07:00am
Opinion Hard reset and a lost generation No better time than election season to make the case – very controversial one, it turns out – that Pakistan’s... Published 20 Jul, 2023 03:12am
Opinion The BRICS’s creeping ‘gold currency’ It’s a shame that market pundits have been busy scandalising JP Morgan’s involvement with the late, notorious ... Updated 13 Jul, 2023 05:15am
Opinion SBA won’t cut it Fine, it was the single biggest one-day jump in the stock market in 15 years. But is it really that unbelievable,... Updated 06 Jul, 2023 06:20am
Opinion ‘I know something I won’t tell’ I wonder why this trend of ‘I know something extremely important, but I’m not telling anything’ is all the ... Published 29 Jun, 2023 04:19am
Opinion Establishment-e-Pakistan A big thank you to my sister in Seattle for pointing out that Google translator translates ‘istehkam’ as... Updated 22 Jun, 2023 06:07am
Opinion The Fund strikes back It didn’t take long for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to red-flag the budget, did it? Just as feared in... Published 15 Jun, 2023 06:03am
Opinion It’s just too late It’s impossible to reach the state of maximum uncertainty in Pakistan. Two caretaker provincial governments... Published 08 Jun, 2023 06:30am