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Singh: Globalization of Locusts
Znet Article, July, 09 2005
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
A couple of months back, Mr. Franz Müntefering, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the dominant party in Germany’s ruling coalition, described private equity funds and hedge funds as “swarms of locusts that fall on com...
Singh: Citi Never Sleeps
Znet Article, February, 11 2005
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
From a market capitalization perspective, Citigroup ($243 billion in mid-June 2004) is the biggest financial services group in the world. With $1264 billion in assets, the US-based bank is not just a big bank but provides well-diversified financia...
Singh: Speculating on Black Gold
Znet Article, December, 10 2004
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
Since early 2004, international crude oil prices have witnessed a massive upsurge. For several days in the second half of 2004, oil prices remained at US$50 a barrel. Although oil prices have declined in the past few weeks, yet they still remain o...
Singh: India's Transaction Tax Disproves All Fears
Znet Article, November, 05 2004
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
On October 1, 2004, the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) came into implementation in the Indian financial markets. The market players and analysts who had predicted that the introduction of STT would bring Indian financial markets to a standstill ...
Singh: Diluting the Tax
Znet Article, August, 04 2004
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
Under pressure from powerful lobby of brokers, speculators, arbitrageurs and "noise traders," Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, diluted several important provisions of the proposed securities transaction tax (STT). For a detailed analysis of the p...
Singh: Equitable Equity
Znet Article, July, 19 2004
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
On July 8, 2004, India's Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, presented Finance Bill (Bill No. 22, 2004) in Parliament in which he proposed the introduction of Securities Transaction Tax (STT) in the Indian financial markets. Under the proposal, ever...
Singh: Parmalat's Fall
Znet Article, February, 09 2004
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
In December 2003, Italian food and dairy giant, Parmalat, went bust. The dramatic fall of family-owned Parmalat was triggered when Bank of America claimed that a document showing 4 billion Euro in company’s Cayman Islands bank account is f...
Singh: Cancun Conundrum
Znet Article, September, 26 2003
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
The Fifth Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Cancun during September 10-14, 2003, failed to arrive at any agreement on several contentious issues. Since Cancun Conference was expected to provide a further push to the ...
Singh: Investment Agreement in the WTO
Znet Article, July, 25 2003
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
The Fifth Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organization (WTO) would be held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003, in the midst of several controversial issues. There has been no meaningful progress on agriculture, TRIPs and public health, â...
Singh: Anthrax, Drug Transnationals And TRIPs
Zmag Article, December, 01 2001
Kavaljit Singh
Singh's ZSpace page
Anthrax, Drug Transnationals And TRIPs
