BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The spectre of inflation
Be it management commentary or flash PMI surveys, most are predicting runaway input prices. But some are choosing to break ranks
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Supply crunch
From Europe to Asia, supply issues threaten to derail the fledgling growth recovery story
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Keeping the faith
Stock markets are looking at the silver lining in every dark cloud that comes their way. What explains their optimism?
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Perfect storm over China
From the Evergrande debt crisis to a slowing growth rate to the crackdown on technology companies to the growing confrontation with the West, the cup of woes is spilling over for China
BUSINESS
RBI Dy Governor Patra’s speech has key clues on monetary policy
The central bank’s glide path envisages inflation at close to 4 per cent only by 2023-24
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Buying slow and selling fast
Does this strategy really work in a raging bull market, when the mantra appears to be buying furiously?
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Market’s Dizzy Heights
The stock prices are on the top of the world, but any slightest disappointment could trigger a sell-off
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Jayanth Varma’s bombshell
The MPC member, the lone dissenter at the previous policy meet in August, questions effectiveness of the accommodative stance to shore up growth
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The market celebrates Independence
Equity market takes adverse news flows in its stride, expects ‘mother of all recoveries’ ahead
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The message from the RBI surveys
Economy is healing from the brutal second wave, but it’s a long way to go
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The East is Red Again
The market carnage spread from China’s e-commerce and fintech bigwigs such as Alibaba and Tencent to edtech companies and then to the property sector
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Where are you on India’s wealth ladder?
The top 5 percent of Indians own more wealth than the other 95 percent put together, according to Credit Suisse
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Sign of the times
Huge oversubscription of Zomato IPO shows platform companies are the future, posing a threat to traditional businesses
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Fire and ice
Is there a middle ground between higher inflation and deflation? Yes, there is one
INDIA
The conflict over development that claimed the life of Stan Swamy
Economic development is an intensely contested project, throwing up winners and losers. It has always been so, no matter what the political system
BUSINESS
Thirty years of liberalisation: Reforms lifted GDP growth but didn’t create enough jobs
Overall growth in jobs has been coming down in every decade since liberalisation. The KLEMS database shows that total employment in 2017-18 was lower than in 2011-12
BUSINESS
How does the structural change of the last 30 years compare with that of the 30 years preceding liberalisation?
In several significant development markers such as the change in the share of agriculture and industry in GDP, the period since liberalisation has done worse than the thirty year period prior to the opening up of the economy.
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | God’s Own Country
How religiously tolerant are Indians? Does it affect their political leanings? How is the economy placed? What explains Indians’ love for a strong leader? Here are some interesting findings
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Ricardo, Marx, Keynes and stocks
Apart from being renowned personalities, what is common among Ricardo, Marx and Keynes? They made a fortune by investing in stocks
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The elephant in the economy pushing up asset prices
Growing inequality leads to more market investments which raise asset prices, which increases inequality further
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Defiantly exuberant
Optimism is once again in the air and a few green shoots are visible
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The Second Coming
What happens when these lockdowns are relaxed? And what if a third wave strikes?
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Apocalypse now, but jam tomorrow
Given current uncertainties, investors would do well to pick stocks for the long term available at decent valuations
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Danse macabre
The gravity of the matter can be judged from the fact that India’s daily new infections are more than a third of the world’s and our hospital beds per thousand people are even lower than Bangladesh’s
