FinTech Today

Read Time: 4 mins In the simplest way possible, let's learn how a stock market works, what drives the price of a share price, what are indices, how indices represent the position/health of a market, and how the overall market gets affected when an event such as a global pandemic occurs. So what is a stock market? A stock market is a place where people buy and sell shares, a subliminal analogy will be exchange websites such as eBay, OLX etc. What happens there is that person A is selling a share of company X and person B is buying that share from person A, but the catch is that the trading platforms(Zerodha, Angel Broking) act as an intermediate for regulation purposes & much more but those details are out of the scope of this blog. So what makes one person sell a share and another person buy that same share. Let's assume that Company X's share price is $10 and I think that the performance of the last few years is good so the price might go up to $12(guesstimate) in 1 ye...

Read Time: 5 mins Now we have all seen the turmoil which the coronavirus has created for all of us. We have been seated all the while, seeing our economy shrinking, countries such as Germany and South Korea entering a state of recession because of COVID dragging down their exports, the death rates escalating, the desperation to get nominal healthcare facilities, and much more!  Talking about the stock markets, Dow Jones IA, FTSE 100, NIFTY all plunged by 40%,35%, and 38% respectively . Now we know that the race for the vaccine is ongoing and when will these unprecedented time end, we have no clue. Will we see a second wave? Will the vaccine work as the virus is a mutant? We have no idea but what we know is that the economy is recovering! So let's have a look at how economies usually recover! This is not the first time the economy has shrunken by this much, we have seen worst in the past and have recovered from it and so we will from this pandemic. During the Great Depression1929, w...

Read Time: 4 mins We all are well aware that the coronavirus pandemic has led us to state wherein we are worried about our health, food, essentials, money, and even our jobs. In this time wherein we need each other's support, we also need to understand the numbers clearly rather than just insinuating. Also, we need to understand the chances of a recession alongside the size of the recession. Spoiler Alert : Chances of recession within 12 months as per Bloomberg Economies = 100%. Source: Bloomberg Business Week I guess, now you'll be heeding to this blog even more carefully. So first let's see how big the Pandemic can be and as we have already seen how the GFC (shorted for Global Finacial Crisis) of 2008, how this one compares to that. First, to understand what happened during GFC, I would like you to read this blog . Now since we know what happened in the period 2007 to 2009 during the GFC. Let's focus on the coronavirus pandemic. As of now, what we kno...

Read Time: 4 mins Amid the pandemic of the coronavirus, we are all aware the economy is falling across all regions of the world and the world is currently under chaos and the economic downfall can be well explained by the healthcare issues we are facing. But the question remains, are we going to see a recession? A quick spoiler - this blog doesn't have a definite answer to that but it'll help you understand the probability of it happening over the next few weeks. First of all, let's understand how and when do we officially term that a recession has come and who defines that? A recession is a significant decline in general economic activity of a region. This macroeconomic term is typically recognized as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, this decline is reflected by GDP in conjunction with monthly indicators such as a rise in unemployment. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is the one that officially declares recessions. However, the NBER def...

Read Time: 4 mins As the world is suffering from the coronavirus pandemic. It is really important to understand how the measures taken by certain governments are going to affect their respective economies and the economy worldwide. As we know that the majority of the firms these days work on Capitalism and that has led us to cheaper solutions to the majority of our stuff. But is Capitalism really good for us and should we keep up with the flow and let Capitalism grow like it is or should we focus to drive Socialism instead? Let's deep-dive and understand that how the surroundings are changing and what COVID-19 may lead us to. First of all, let's understand what Capitalism is? C apitalism is basically an economic and political system wherein a country's industries and trade are managed and controlled by private owners, also known as shareholders, on a for-profit basis. Although no country is fully Capitalized here is a list of countries wherein the majority is con...