While the outlook on inflation is uncertain, what will really move the needle for RBI is how strong the economy remains
Typically, banks tend to be prompt in raising rates during a tightening phase but fail to display the same alacrity when interest rates are moving south
The move on Italian banks is a reminder of Meloni’s aptitude and appetite for populist politics, a skill admired even by her detractors that led her to become prime minister less than a decade after founding her Brothers of Italy party
Putin is particularly drawn to the Sahel because the region can destabilise the West in many ways at once. It has become the global epicenter of terrorism
The government should not change growth goals too often. Also, growth goals should not be based on the overall size of the economy but on growth rates
Can the I.N.D.I.A. alliance bank on the recent price rise against NDA in 2024? Voting is both an emotional and multi-dimensional decision and election outcomes of the past in India show no clear correlation with high inflation
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There are sector-specific slumps in manufacturing, chemicals, cardboard boxes, freight, tech/electronics, residential and commercial property, mergers & acquisitions, and advertising
Prices of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) have a significant influence over the consumer price index (CPI). As extreme weather events impact their supply, there is an urgent need to improve the fundamentals, in order to control prices
As Imran Khan transitions to jail life, Pakistan is preparing for other big-ticket departures and arrivals. PM Shehbaz Sharif will step down to allow a caretaker PM to oversee the next elections, former PM Nawaz Sharif is expected back, Pakistan president Arif Alvi’s term ends next month, and Chief Justice Bandial who bailed out Imran in the past is retiring
Incipient industry will need decades, and many billions, before it becomes a commercial proposition
No system is perfect. When you pride yourself on cleanliness, you need to deal with the blowback when stains appear. But by global benchmarks, the scandals that have caused embarrassment to the leadership of the city state are pretty low key. PM Lee Hsien Loong and co should just grin and bear it
A superconductor operating at room temperature, which LK-99 claims to be, would qualify as the "holy grail" of the field as it can be deployed cheaply and widely, revolutionising fields from energy to transportation to computing. But there's also scepticism as sometimes things that seem too good to be true are just that
As distributors liquidated excess inventories, sales volumes at Balkrishna Industries declined 19 percent in Q1 FY24
The personal data bill’s detour into content blocking is not only a duplication of an existing power the government already possesses under the IT Act, but it lacks basic safeguards too. This could lead to bureaucratic excesses that can disrupt internet businesses and hinder our path to a trillion-dollar digital economy
Being “always in” trades occupy the mind space of a trader, and he has no time to play catch up. Ultimately, the trader risks being left behind the curve
Geopolitics, and hegemonic rivalry, are part of the story—a key part but not the whole story. Geoeconomics, a troubled economy, domestic policy, and the risk of war over Taiwan are the other parts to the growing unease towards China
It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that bond yields in India are taking cues more from global bond markets than from domestic developments
Going by the uproar over the skyrocketing price of tomatoes, it would appear that Indians have not taken to the idea of using puree out of tetra-packs in a big way
The volatility last week differed from that of 2022 and earlier this year because it was driven not by the policy-sensitive short end of the yield curve (such as the two-year Treasury) but by the longer-dated bonds
The Treasury is on track to spend almost $1 trillion on interest payments alone in fiscal 2023, compared with less than $600 billion before the pandemic and around $425 billion in 2011 when S&P lowered its rating for the US from AAA to AA+
The Bill creates a novel system of registered consent managers. This will allow users to mindfully think about what they want done with their data, record their preferences once, and thereafter, use their consent manager to manage consents for the hundreds of products and services they use every day
A two-pronged, bottom-up approach that involves recruiting more judicial officers in the district judiciary and ramping up the supporting structural components they need like more courtrooms, court staff, basic amenities and technology cannot wait any longer. There are more than 4 crore cases pending in the lower judiciary
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