Forecasting the monetary policy The next monetary policy announcement is due in the last week of May 2010. We attempt to forecast the cut in the policy discount rate by looking at oil prices, the relationship between oil prices and imports, exports, remittances, the current account balance, net foreign assets, credit to the private sector…
Author: Jawwad
My Google Adsense Journey – Three months of Adsense, lessons learnt
In the beginning there was oil… It was oil that started the Adsense debate, the oil insights blog and the follow on blogs that came later. Learning Finance, Startup Insights and a couple of other interesting experiments. Three months later the click through rate (CTR) is the highest on Oil Insights, the traffic is highest…
PTA kills the internet and pulls Pakistan back into Stone Age
One big step forward for PTA (the Pakistan Telecom Authority), a time warp portal for 160 million Pakistanis. In the worst days of a dictatorial government this wasn’t done. An overzealous judge and an equally incompetent regulator have rolled back Pakistan into the dark ages. Suddenly without Wikipedia, without you-tube and without Google, the internet…
Karachi Status update
Roads are open, some schools are closed, traffic is variable depending on the neighborhood, given the unrest in the city last night. Lighter traffic in Gulshan going towards NIPA, reasonable going towards the city. I filled up from a PSO petrol pump on University Road and then drove through the Baloch colony express way onto…
The Google checkout update
One plus of the travel bug is that my body is thoroughly confused about the time zone I am in and the right time for me to sleep (these days it is anytime, all the time). Insomnia and Google Checkout go well together as I found out tonight experimenting with the checkout gadget. Took four…
27,000 Kilometers and counting
On 19th April when I boarded the Emirates flight to JFK, I had no idea that for the next three weeks I will be on the road. My one week trip to the US to explore new markets somehow mutated into a three week trek involving mid night flights to UAE, early morning wakeup calls…
New copies of Reboot in stock
I have managed to siphon twenty copies of Reboot from the most recent print run in Singapore on its way to Dubai and the US. Please grab your copy for 1,100 plus shipping costs from the Reboot site before they run out.
Startup Guide: The Darden Reboot Chat – Videos are here
And they are here. Seven episodes due to the youtube 10 minute rule. Many thanks to Uzma for burning the midnight oil, encoding the video and solving the volume problem once and for all. Thank you Adnan for ensuring that the session gets recorded for the family (as well as agents and friends) and shipping…
Crude Oil price outlook: Euro breaks 1.3, Oil slide to 82
Euro slides to 1.2960, while crude oil prices fall on inventory update and strong dollar after staying in the 86 neighborhood for the last few trading days. More pain ahead for Euro and Oil bulls?
Confessions of a Luddite
All these years I thought I needed a decent cell phone to be on twitter…Last night when I finally took the plunge, it was painfully apparent that as I get closer to 40, my need for a brain transplant is becoming more visible and apparent. My antiquated Nokia was not a necessary or sufficient condition……