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Weekend Wild Card: What Harshvardhan Jain's Ghaziabad Fake Embassy tells us about ourselves

INDIA

Weekend Wild Card: What Harshvardhan Jain's Ghaziabad Fake Embassy tells us about ourselves

In an era where deepfakes win elections, influencers invent themselves, and credentials are just a blue tick away, who’s to say he didn’t simply echo the spirit of the age?

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | GENIUS Act: Why US stablecoin regulation could reshape global finance

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | GENIUS Act: Why US stablecoin regulation could reshape global finance

For Moneycontrol's Pro Panorama July 21 edition: IT sector's weak results should worry investors, can Trump turn the G20 clock back, e-commerce reinforces stranglehold in metro FMCG markets, new CEOs are driving stock surge across India Inc, and more

Voodoo World: Investing in times of geopolitical turmoil

BUSINESS

Voodoo World: Investing in times of geopolitical turmoil

As geopolitics reshapes trade flows and domestic data reveals cracks in demand, markets are adjusting unevenly—pricing in policy shifts while grappling with earnings ambiguity

Weekend Wild Card: The intelligent investor’s guide to apocalyptic alpha

BUSINESS

Weekend Wild Card: The intelligent investor’s guide to apocalyptic alpha

Markets love uncertainty—it’s a catalyst for safe-haven assets and defensive stocks. We call it low-beta outperformance.

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | How the markets learned to stop worrying and love tariffs

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | How the markets learned to stop worrying and love tariffs

Markets find Leonard Cohen's cracks of light amid Trump's tariff threats and India's subdued earnings season

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Apocalypse Postponed, Again

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Apocalypse Postponed, Again

Halfway into 2025, global markets and the economy continue to defy forecasts of doom with defiant cheerfulness

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | NATO Spending Hike Sounds Trumpet for Orwell’s Permanent War Economy

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | NATO Spending Hike Sounds Trumpet for Orwell’s Permanent War Economy

NATO's new 5 percent defence spending target marks a historic rupture--signalling the rise of the security state, the eclipse of social welfare, and the march to a militarized economy

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Will the US Go to War with Iran Despite Markets Betting on Stability?

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Will the US Go to War with Iran Despite Markets Betting on Stability?

Why Trump's birthday parade was a revolutionary goose-step for capitalism

WORLD

Why Trump's birthday parade was a revolutionary goose-step for capitalism

Putin was quick to offer congratulations. Dubious reports say Gazprom has already bid to sponsor the next Red Square parade.

MC Analysis: India’s gold reserves hit record high as central banks hedge dollar risk

BUSINESS

MC Analysis: India’s gold reserves hit record high as central banks hedge dollar risk

RBI has dramatically raised its gold holdings, mirroring a worldwide pivot to safer, non-dollar assets

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Whistling past the graveyard

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Whistling past the graveyard

Weekend Wild Card: From happy hour to hard times as liquor prices skyrocket

INDIA

Weekend Wild Card: From happy hour to hard times as liquor prices skyrocket

What keeps your average worker chained to his joyless, dead-end job for 12 hours a day? What fortifies the brave souls packed into Mumbai’s trains like sardines?

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Sanjay Malhotra fires his bazooka

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Sanjay Malhotra fires his bazooka

Despite the RBI’s bold liquidity boost and optimism, GDP growth projections remain unchanged at 6.5%, raising questions about the real impact of policy moves

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | FY25 growth at 6.5%: What India's strong growth signals for investors

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | FY25 growth at 6.5%: What India's strong growth signals for investors

India's economy grew 6.5 percent in FY25, with a robust 7.4 percent expansion in Q4 despite global headwinds and domestic uncertainty, signalling underlying resilience

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | As global yields rise and the dollar softens, where do Indian equities stand?

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | As global yields rise and the dollar softens, where do Indian equities stand?

The Trump regime, with its erratic and shifting policies, will continue to reshape markets in unpredictable and often disruptive ways

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Trump’s trade boasts stir market optimism amid underlying chaos

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Trump’s trade boasts stir market optimism amid underlying chaos

As markets cheer temporary truces, the real story is America's struggle to navigate a world where its dominance is fading, and systemic chaos reshapes global trade and power structures

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The Right Time to Strike Hard: Why India must raise the stakes with Pakistan

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The Right Time to Strike Hard: Why India must raise the stakes with Pakistan

What is required is a decisive show of strength — -a big stick to drive home the message that India will no longer tolerate cross-border terrorism

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | April far from being the cruellest month

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | April far from being the cruellest month

In the first four months of the year, the world has been on fire--trade wars escalated, alliances fractured and tensions flared. Yet the markets barely flinched

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | India Stands Strong

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | India Stands Strong

Even as a brutal terror attack tries to derail peace, Kashmir's collective outrage and the nation's calm resolve point to a deeper strength

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama| Headless chicken markets

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama| Headless chicken markets

In the April 24 edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: IMF hints at shift in US and China economic trajectories, seed stage funding bounces back, Trump's tariffs are sinking global logistics and trucking firms, India’s military options are dictated by underlying political message, and more

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | India’s tremendous, fantastic week! We’re winning bigly!

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | India’s tremendous, fantastic week! We’re winning bigly!

Our markets are dancing through the chaos. Nobody does it better than India. Believe me

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Capital strikes back

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Capital strikes back

President Trump's partial tariff retreat may have soothed investors for now, but the deeper tremors of economic nationalism, policy whiplash, and global realignment are far from over

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Orange Bear

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Orange Bear

Tariff Day was no ordinary disruption--it was an Orange Bear event, loud, chaotic, and dangerously absurd

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Will April 2 trump All Fools’ Day?

BUSINESS

Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Will April 2 trump All Fools’ Day?

This is the right time to quote Samuel Beckett's famous play, Waiting for Godot: 'In the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come. '

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