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 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: 3 mins Today as we all see that the market is plunging by margins that none of us expected or are willing to believe. As in today's world, problems are solved on a global level due to globalization, so are the creation of problems. One problem leads to another and that leads to another thus creating a domino effect. This is a big reason why we are seeing such a drop in the market worldwide. Looking back at how 2020 started for us we can easily understand the domino effect. Starting with the Trade war between US-China, then Israel-Palestine conflict, the death of Soleimani i.e. the US-Iran conflict, then CAA-NRC conflict in India, the climate issues addressed at Davos 2020, and the current pressing issues of Russia and OPEC oil pricing war and the pandemic Coronavirus, all these are the ripples that create a convolute path for the understanding of the downfall in the global market. First, let's see what is the status of the global market and a few top compani...