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What will JSW Energy look like after mammoth QIP?

The Rs 5,000-crore funds infusion vastly raises investment capabilities of the company

South Asia has a 'Jobless Development' problem, says World Bank

The World Bank says South Asia’s employment ratio is lower than that of other developing regions because of two primary reasons---low employment ratios for women and lack of jobs in the non-agriculture sectors

US: Biden's record jobs boom power swing state of Georgia

The truism among historians that presidents can't take credit for the economy is belied by evidence that this administration’s policies are an unrivaled employment juggernaut

ECB should put rate cuts on this month’s agenda

Waiting until June risks seeing the euro-zone economy deteriorate further

Lok Sabha Polls: Party hoppers have a field day in Odisha ahead of elections

The poll bugle has been rung and the parties have been scrambling to name their winning candidates. Odisha is also preparing for the Assembly elections and it’s open season for everyone, especially party hoppers who are having a field day 

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | A death knell for India’s forex derivative market

In this edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: India’s oil strategy at mercy of geopolitics, decoding the surge in gold prices, solar panel manufacturers face the heat, MPC likely to keep the bank rates intact, and more

For all its faults, democracy is still better than autocracy

All the evidence shows that despotism cannot consistently deliver the economic goods for developing countries

Larry Fink’s faith in the power of markets needs some tempering

Markets can be corrupted and are not fail-safe alone

MPC Meet: RBI to maintain status quo with a hint of caution

As this fiscal year's first MPC begins, it looks like the Reserve Bank of India is very likely to maintain the status quo on interest rates along with a dose of caution about the inflationary as well as geo-political outlook

MPC Meet: Why RBI should step back and reduce interest rates

RBI must consider lowering interest rates, it will benefit both the producers and consumers. Also, keeping interest rates high hampers demand for relatively high valued discretionary items and may not help contain food inflation

Israel’s strike on Iran consulate in Syria shows proxy wars have cost

Tehran was waging war from the shadows, but there were always going to be consequences

Exxon’s $60 billion fight with Chevron will reshape big oil

The rights to an offshore field containing 11 billion barrels of oil are at stake in an arbitration dispute

Manufacturing pickup is good news for the world economy

Some important bellwethers of global commerce are looking better

What's behind the surge in gold prices?

The absence of ETFs and retail consumers in the market means that central bank and speculative buying are currently the primary drivers of gold prices.

Chart of the Day| Has the sun set on solar panel manufacturers?

Over-capacity in China has led to a huge fall in solar panel prices and countries are scrambling to protect their domestic companies

Aditya Birla Fashion-MFL demerger to enable value creation in retail business

The management’s recognition of the need for a demerger through a vertical split of businesses is timely given the high growth and competition in the fashion industry

India’s oil import strategy faces risks from geopolitics, rising prices

India’s opportunistic buying from Russia at substantial discounts is now nearing its end with the country scarcely in a position to cock a snook at US sanctions, unlike China

Aditya Birla Capital has many things going for it apart from merger

The merger with its subsidiary has little economic benefit to Aditya Birla Capital. But the company has several factors working for it, from digital initiatives to robust asset quality that could reward investors in the coming quarters

What's behind the sudden boom in bank credit to MSMEs?

Bank credit to MSMEs in Jan-Feb was higher than even advances to the housing sector. Brighter business prospects and a regulatory change may explain the jump

Decoding Economics | The implications of a Chinese manufacturing recovery

A research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York spells out the effects of the Chinese government’s turn from real estate-led growth to increased investment in manufacturing

How many gig workers are there? Depends on how you ask

Recent research shows that the monthly Current Population Survey may be undercounting a lot of nontraditional employment

Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin’s new front is in the Balkans

The Russian leader is pushing propaganda and religious strife in Kosovo and Bosnia to distract NATO from his illegal invasion

Turkey’s Erdogan is down, but don’t count him out

The election upset of President Erdogan’s AK Party is just the start in a long fight for liberal democracy

The tech giants are eating the chatbot kings

Open-source AI firms are meanwhile offering a better alternative to Silicon Valley

AI revolution will be boon for natural gas, say fossil fuel bosses

Data centres’ need for reliable power supply set to soar