Margin trading is a welcome development, but it is no panacea for stock doldrums.

The country can learn a lot from India to attract foreign manufacturing, such as slashing corporate tax rates and implementing favourable policies.

Relatively large ownership by a single entity is a potential roadblock to mergers and acquisitions.

Joseph Schumpeter’s creative destruction should be applied to the economy, and to politics as well.

In the name of attaining self-sufficiency, several industries have been haphazardly protected with subsidies and tariffs.

Rejecting a project just because it involves debt is as ill-advised as it is to take on a project haphazardly.

Nepal must focus on industries where it has comparative advantage. There is no point in protecting industries that will lose out to outside competition anyway.

To let FDI cause promising industries to die on the vine is not prudent

It is best not to tinker with price discovery process

Three-fifths of Nepal’s trade deficit is accounted for by India. This dependence is the primary reason why Nepal pegs its currency—the Nepalese rupee (NPR)—to the Indian rupee (INR).

Nepal, a resource-strained least developed country (LDC), needs capital. There are no ifs, and or buts about it. It has had the LDC status since 1971.

Hopefully more municipalities sensibly compete with each other to attract investment

Shorting injects much needed balance into the markets now that margin trading is allowed

Insider trading and secondary markets—when the cat is away, the mice will play

Whether it’s called a cartel or a syndicate, the ultimate goal is the same: price-fixing