Category Archives: Trade

Renuka Sugar and Growth chase

During MBA, I always wondered why companies fail when there is so much literature around success, failure or strategies or finance. And it all came down to various things Assumptions on growth & External factors Execution Here article that suggest why growth at fast paced is not always good – http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/7ktDQWFZP7SxRS1ENrcBmK/Renuka-Sugars-and-risk-inherent-in-chasing-rapid-growth.html I remember buying stocksContinue reading “Renuka Sugar and Growth chase”

event calender

I was always curious to find list of events – throughout the year- that influence investment decision – such as date of publishing US employment data or Mfg growth reports  from Indian govt or HSBC IIP data etc. Here are few URLs where such information is available. http://rsbl.co.in/april-2017.asp https://www.topratedforexbrokers.com/education-and-guides/economic-calendar/ https://markets.ft.com/data/world/economic-calendar https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/economic-calendar https://in.investing.com/economic-calendar/ http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3063-globalEconomicCalendar.html  

Trade indicators report

We submitted trade indicator report. Data was retrieved from trademap.org/Bilateral_TS.aspx and http://artnet.unescap.org/APTIAD/iti_home.aspx It was good learning exercise to complete this work. Btw there aren’t too many publication (books) on this trade analytics but there are enough research reports on various trade indicators. I have published link to various databases that are used for trade analytics. ta_hs300439_grp3_iift_201518Continue reading “Trade indicators report”

Globalization, Globaloney & Trump

About two years ago, when I read Jagdish Bhagatwi’s book “In Defense of Globalization“  – I was almost convinced by contents and benefits. Even with contents of “International Economics” course I learned more on benefits. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-defense-of-globalization-9780195330939?cc=us&lang=en& Today, Trump win in US election or recent Brexit event confirm how many nations (developed, developing and under-developed) areContinue reading “Globalization, Globaloney & Trump”

good read

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/XMLZoRbGChlm88qUR0PdpK/Jagdish-Bhagwati-and-trade-issues-today.html Summary – How world trade could be impacted/fragmented due to series of small FTA between countries and mega-block treaties like TPP etc. Paper referred in above article can be found here. Click to access paper1-the_world_trading_system.pdf  

Bankruptcy of shipping company

It was quite a weekend to remember. We had lectures on Trade Logistics, supply chain and International Finance.adr_gdr_global_capital_market_integration_grp3_iift_1518 For our group, we worked on “Integrating Capital Market – via ADR and GDR”. During  Trade logistics, we learned about top 10 shipping companies and ports in World. JNPT – india’s  port which handle ~60% india’s  logisticContinue reading “Bankruptcy of shipping company”

SME Finance (cont…)

As mentioned earlier, over course of time, I would like to explore finance and SME finance – as SME contributes about 60-70% of India’s exports.  Today I read about merge of two companies http://www.industrybuying.com/ and http://www.capitalfloat.com/index  – who would like to dominate sourcing of components/raw material and credit in non-hassle manner to SMEs. http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/industrybuying-capital-float-tie-up-for-credit-offering-to-smes-in-india-116090500234_1.html SMEContinue reading “SME Finance (cont…)”

4th trisem

Yesterday marked actual end of 3rd trisem. We complete pending project work related to ENT (slides on business plan), Operational research (Monte carlo simulation & distribution system design), international marketing (Indian Coffee). My 4th trisem has already began. This trisem we have following subjects Strategic Management – Already read article “What is strategy?” by PorterContinue reading “4th trisem”