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At a disastrous G-20 climate ministers’ meeting in Chennai, China’s negotiator reportedly teamed up with Saudi Arabia and refused to discuss a 2025 global emissions target. Retreating from its key role in the 2015 Paris Agreement and its 2020 commitment to net-zero emissions would be disastrous to the world’s climate trajectory and China’s global role
While both companies forecast rapid addition of projects in the coming years, they don't match current capex trends. Investors should watch their return ratios and earnings
The urgency to pass the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is understandable. But its confused positioning on consent to processing personal data, lack of guardrails for non-consensual processing, free hand to use publicly available data despite privacy concerns, and the absence of protections to journalists are glaring misses in the bill
Global debt surpassed $300 trillion in the first quarter of 2023, according to the Institute of International Finance. Developed nations account more nearly 70 percent of global debt with the US’s share around 10 percent.
Providing a legal framework which protects the rights of both landowners and tenant farmers in an equitable manner can address the two biggest challenges facing Indian agriculture today – the fragmented nature of land holdings and unviable average farm sizes, as well as bringing in tenant farmers into the ambit of the various Central and State schemes aimed at farmers
For now, M&M remains a group which derives the bulk of its revenue - 55 percent - from its automotive business
The good part is that India will finally have a data protection law – even if it is limited in its scope and has numerous flaws
The US market’s reaction to the Fitch sovereign rating downgrade was a faint shadow of 2011’s Black Monday. But it appears to have rattled the Indian stock market more. Here’s why
A very short, very wild history of the market that will shape the next financial crisis
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: July PMI data shows strong economy, US credit rating downgrade no big deal, Indian start-ups enter global markets, peak rates pose investing challenge, and more
Creating a demand pull and regulatory push through policy interventions would ensure that investor and borrower interests are aligned with India’s energy transition goals
Unbundling hasn’t gone quite as planned. That’s no reason to reverse course
Roughly 50 hedge funds jointly managing more than $1 trillion worth of assets are said to be looking to obtain a license in Dubai, which eagerly promotes its “zero personal income tax regime”
The pace of new orders has been robust, indicating that the growth momentum will last
Recent market moves show growing divergence with bets on a ‘soft landing’ in the US
Indian cities reprocess a mere one percent of construction waste. Planned tax incentives can push this into an investment opportunity. As natural calamities escalate, these measures need to be taken sooner than later
Subway's growth-at-any-cost model where it even pipped McDonald's at one point in number of restaurant outlets is coming back to hurt. Subway doesn’t own any of its outlets, which means that to increase profits it either has to add new franchisees or raise fees charged to those franchisees
LK-99 may not end up being the room-temperature superconductor we all hope for. But perhaps these findings, and renewed excitement, will lead to other advances that offer high-speed, energy-efficient trains, viable and cheap quantum supercomputers, and highly-scalable batteries to store renewable energy
Drastically different cultures means the two Swiss banks’ integration can’t possibly be smooth or pleasant. With the conservative UBS planning to dispose of billions of dollars in loans Credit Suisse had extended in Asia, there is no guarantee that the latter's bankers who are being retained can shine at UBS
After going downhill for the last four years, PGCIL’s capex is set to rev up with focus on renewables
Proposed amendments to the Forest Act do not fully reflect the positive intent of the legislation
Vietnam’s proximity to China, competitive costs, a relatively skilled workforce, extensive free trade agreements (FTA) make it an enviable investment destination for global firms
Indian start-ups are foraying into overseas markets more aggressively. There are risks and hurdles but success, when tasted, is sweet
The reaction of the markets to the downgrade is likely to be temporary, given the widespread expectations of a soft landing for the US economy
Many investors have held more cash than usual in anticipation of higher interest rates. But policy rates are now approaching a peak
