Author: Jawwad

Phet is finally here. Light drizzle and thunder at 1 am on Sunday morning.

I had always wanted to do this. Take my favorite posts from over the years and put them in one easy to find place where I can go hide when I wanted to run away from the world. Tonight I decided to do something about it. For the benefit of my newly minted ranks of…

Stocks, Euro and commodities slid in unison on a weak US job reports when non-farm payroll only added 534,000 jobs compared to analyst expectations. Euro touched a four year low compared to the US dollar while Oil prices slid to a lower level after some initial excitement in the morning before the US jobs data…

I can no longer wait for the rains to arrive and kill the heat. I give up, going off to sleep. Will call when it pours.

First Governor State Bank resigns, then the old guard at NIT let go and finally the cyclone is a no-show because of a travel advisory against Karachi issued by the US government.

Another Lahore High Court judge restores Facebook access in Pakistan showing that our Judiciary can set a wrong right much before the national telecommunication regulator can. Not sure who filed the petition but it was the smartest thing to do under the circumstances. Just wondering if the technology industry is going to take PTA to…

I don’t remember when. August or September, I know it was New York from ten years ago, I was happy to be on campus, back within the familiar rooms I had recently left. But I don’t remember if it was hot or cold. Fresh from my start up land, pool and lake view apartment in…

While we wait for Traffic to climb and our Google search engine page rankings to move up and our Adsense revenues to break the three dollar barrier the upward movement in Technorati rankings has been a great motivator for the last few days. When you spend late nights tweaking key words and posts and ponder…

Four months of sleepless nights and the Learning Finance blog is on Google search engine results page one. Details on Startup Insights. It as Zafar said when I spoke to him yesterday after his arrival back from the Google IO conference. Just like all mad quants head to Wall Street trading desks, all intelligent and…

Here is the traffic update for the month of May, a full three days early before month end. Given the long weekend in North America, the origin of most of my traffic, there is not going to be much to write home about on the 31st. Last Saturday I wrote my 3 months Google Adsense…