Andy Mukherjee

Climate activists in India face a more pressing disappointment. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (above) cut the allocation for pollution control. 
COMMENTARY

India spooks investors instead of calming them

The Modi government intends to borrow a record 17.2 trillion rupees by selling bonds

The slowdown in construction may be because builders are starting to run out of funds as demand slows down. 

Fear comes to India’s property developers

How much further will the current bout of pessimism run? The answer depends on how the industry boosts its efficiency

India's securities regulator says Jane Street manipulated intraday prices on 15 out of 18 days when options on Bank Nifty expired with high profits for some traders.

Jane Street shows dangers of finance as shampoo

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has accused the New York-based quantitative trader of running ‘an intentional, well-planned and sinister scheme’ of market manipulation

Mukesh Ambani runs India’s biggest telecommunications and retail networks, but it’s only now that his family has started climbing up on the list of global celebrities.

Asia’s richest tycoon is Making America Great Again

Now that Trump has fallen out with Elon Musk, the White House may have room for a new centibillionaire guest

The techno-anarchist vision behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin was to free the financial well-being of individuals from the clutches of large custodial institutions – and the monetary mandarins supervising them.
THE BOTTOM LINE

What will central banks do when tokens replace money?

They may still be able to run monetary policy – but after a messy transition

Rather than tinkering with stamp duties or trying to lure overseas investors to the top end of its housing market, Hong Kong needs to fix the first rung of its property ladder.
COMMENTARY

Hong Kong needs a radical rethink on home ownership

All the carrots they have dangled before prospective buyers have failed to stem the 28 per cent slide in prices

Johor is 26 times bigger than Singapore by land area, and every day 300,000 people use the six-lane, 100-year-old causeway connecting them, making it one of the busiest land crossings in the world.

Singapore finds its seat at the China+1 table

FOR multinationals looking to reduce their reliance on China, the top alternative locations in Asia so far have been Vietnam and Indonesia. Both economies have witnessed a boom in exports and foreign ...

If Singapore can demonstrate a role for distributed ledgers in mutual funds, it can pitch the new platform to the wider asset management industry.

Why Singapore is bringing blockchain into mutual funds

Most people see “blockchain” and “funds” in the same sentence and immediately think of pools of money betting on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether. That isn’t how Singapore sees the utility o...

Stepping out of the banks’ shadows: Reits could turn the corner soon with lower-rate environment.

How the Fed will help Singapore Reits outshine banks

SINGAPORE property owners have spent a long time languishing in the shadow of the chart-topping performance of the island’s banks. But with US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signalling the start ...

In the decade bookended by the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and the onset of Covid-19, Singapore Reits had outperformed the STI.
COMMENTARY

Singapore needs reforms to revive its Reits

Activist investors are agitating to balance a playing field tilted against them. Regulators must also do their bit