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Abheek Barua: Is the 'Modinomics' euphoria overstretched?

Investors need to ask some basic questions before betting in the markets on the Gujarat model's national success

Abheek Barua: The RBI's many rates

Far from introducing clarity to monetary policy, the RBI's latest action just deepened uncertainty

Abheek Barua: Fresh tremors for the rupee?

The RBI's strategy to feed dollars to oil marketing companies directly from its dwindling reserves is not sustainable

Abheek Barua: Bad news could be good

With the US fiscal impasse discouraging the Fed's taper programme, India has a window of opportunity to get its macroeconomic house in order

Abheek Barua: Dump the textbooks

Now that the link between growth and headline inflation has been cut, the RBI needs to retain some discretion to boost growth

Abheek Barua: Predicting the taper tremors

Will it be gentle or aggressive? Analysts are busy calculating the risks associated with the US Fed's quantitative easing programme

Abheek Barua: Final options for the rupee

The author explains how the government could make a real difference in the financial markets

Let's not write the rupee off

It's in the same boat as other emerging markets with current account deficits, but the recent capital-raising measures may help

Don't hold the rupee

The RBI's choice to strangle liquidity in order to target the exchange rate is self-defeating

Deconstructing RBI's strategy

Measures to defend the rupee have created another set of problems

Yes, minister!

The response by the finance ministry and the RBI to the churning in financial markets is mature

Yen to the rescue?

Japan's version of QE3 means that the yen has re-emerged as a heavyweight 'carry' currency

Life after the taper

The implications of phasing out quantitative easing for India may be far from disastrous

Can Germany afford bailouts?

Its line on any fiscal help is getting harder in the run-up to the elections

Good news at last

Recent data suggest that India's macroeconomic situation is looking up

The Cyprus conundrum

The bail-in/bail-out package raises more questions

The big rate puzzle

Banks seem hesitant to cut interest rates on loans, which doesn't make too much sense

The new 'growth' currency

The inverse relation between dollar movements and risk soon change

Abheek Barua: Feds QE: Time to cut back?

As the central bank suggests ending or at least tapering the current QE3 programme, emerging markets need to start adjusting to lower inflows

Abheek Barua: Not a game-changer, but not trivial