Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

International financial markets went through an unprecedented turmoil in 2008-09. All asset classes except gold suffered major reversals and investors lost huge amount of money.  While the world markets have recovered since then significantly, uncertainties in the developed markets still continue to cloud the horizon.  Domestic investors are not sure about deployment of their savings.  [...]

Oil at $68 per barrel has more than doubled in price since December. Gold is again touching $1,000 per ounce. The Cassandras of the economic gloom &  doom warn that the monster of high energy prices will munch green shoots in the bud, but worry is misplaced. The current price movements signal not a repeat [...]

Once upon a time – six months ago, another age – anyone who could say “crack spread” without laughing was assured a lucrative job as an oil trader. Back then, when crude oil trading at $140 a barrel, the world looked Malthusian. The globe was threatened by a violent scramble for scarce resources, [...]