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Weekend Mega Linkfest:December 18,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

I worry about Muslims (Mohammed Hanif)

Secrets of the Gujaratis,world’s best business people (Economist)

Why politicians play the ‘victim’ card (Jaggi)

How Rahul Gandhi lied about what happened in Assam (OpIndia)

How Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel was taken down (Atlantic)

The Islamist war on secular bloggers in Bangladesh (New Yorker)

Illegal in Iceland (Smithsonian)

My dad was Darth Vader (Jai Arjun)

Unpregnant (Globe & Mail)

Maruti Baleno:Official Review (Team BHP)

The great Greek Bank robbery (Yanis Varoufakis)

The $500 Million battle over Disney’s princesses (Bloomberg)

A startup called HealthAssure (YS)

Why India should honor Taslima Nasrin (India Facts)

Why American Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas (Atlantic)

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Post Fed rally

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Linkfest: December 18, 2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

The monk who wants a Billion $ company (BL)

Visa fees could now cost Indian IT 400 Million $ (ET)

Dangers of ‘cheap’ stocks (Mint)

Reliance Industries:Is the tide turning? (BS)

Alkem Labs,Dr Lal to make stock debut on Dec 23 (BS)

Choosing the worst day for SIP (Muthu)

Commodities bust?Love it (Bloomberg)

The 3 Biggest Myths of the Fed rate hike (DR)

Martin Shkreli arrested for Securities Fraud (RJ)

Remember when? (Common Sense)

 

 

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Fed Rate hikes and the Indian Markets

The table below shows the size and length of the FED Tightening Cycle

Source: Samir Arora

In recent memory,the FED started tightening on 30 June 2004,hiked rates 17 times till the rate was 5.25% and the cycle lasted 25 months i.e. till July end 2006

How did the Indian markets fare in this period?

The Nifty went from 1505.6 on 30 June 2004 to 3143.2 on 31 July 2006 i.e. it doubled.