Wednesday, August 28, 2013

How Jupiter's Vazirani is playing the Indian rupee slide

....The outgoing governor of the central bank is in the process of handing over the reins to his successor, Raghuram Rajan. Rajan does not officially take up his post until 5 September, leaving something of a power vacuum at the top of the RBI. In such an “interregnum”, it is quite easy to imagine policy paralysis, with a soon-to-be ex-governor unwilling to sanction, for instance, a major intervention in the foreign exchange markets, and a new governor not yet in a position to be able to do so.....................

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