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India will have to compete with the US and the EU in attracting capital to its green energy sector
Botnets that turn your gadgets into digital zombies aren’t going to attract the same attention as a chatbot or automated photo generator, nor the same level of fearmongering among AI skeptics. Every device with a processor, memory and an internet connection is a potential bot, which means they can be weaponised against us.
Some policymakers are clearly getting uncomfortable with the way that inflation is reacting — or failing to react — to the 500 basis points of rate increases since March 2022. Inflation isn’t accelerating, but it’s not coming down, either and this suggests a risk of rates having to go to 6 percent or 6.25 percent
The multifaceted impact of El Niño ranges from food insecurity, falling fishing yields, inflation, floods, droughts, and the price of oil as well as other commodity prices
If the reason to invest in Japan is because solid but cheap stocks are likely to get less cheap, they are probably best held over the medium term. In 2020, Warren Buffet bought into a large group of Japanese trading companies that were both high quality and cheap. He’s doubled his money since — and is clearly hoping to do so again.
Deflation is seen not only in crude oil and non-food primary products, but also in manufactured products
With a large pile of deposits repriced higher and no scope to bring them down, banks have little elbow room to improve margins. In fact, margins would feel the squeeze. For NBFCs, it is tougher.
Annamalai’s reference to Jayalalithaa’s conviction for corruption has hit a raw nerve
Loss of its pride of place in some categories of tyres and the ongoing capex are posers to MRF’s market share and return ratios
It’s not just ideation and investor deals that make for successful start-ups. Fostering communication and empowering employees to take decisions is equally important
Two charts that deconstruct the Fed’s ‘hawkish pause’
The continent’s growth is an opportunity for multinational corporations, and its seventh-most-populous nation is well-positioned to take advantage
The attention economy increasingly rewards companies willing to flout the conventions of polite woke society
A painful recession would be no fun, but entrenched inflation would be worse
It is important to nuance the conversation on “big vs small”, and look for an approach that identifies harmful use of AI. Regulators need a better understanding of AI architecture to gauge what can be regulated. Startups deploying AI and Indian use-cases of AI must be studied. India must strike the right balance between harm reduction and innovation. An impulse to hurry might backfire
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: PLI 2.0 needs effective implementation push, getting the portfolio right is essential, data breach a loss of citizen trust, amid healthy pharma market growth lurks risks, and more
Both the MVA and the NDA in their present form haven’t been tested in a broad based election yet but the constituent parties are testing and sizing each other up. BJP is by a distance the largest party in the state but its alliance with the Shinde Sena is on a weak wicket and hasn’t had success engineering larger cleavages in the MVA
Even before El Nino set in, prices of commodities such as cocoa, coffee, sugar and wheat have risen sharply in 2023
Today due to the educational, economic and social changes, the erstwhile restricted spaces in terms of exclusive residential habitations and private caste-determined spaces are not functional any more. As a result, interactions between different caste and religious groups have indeed changed and increased
The dire situation on financing and debt has become pressing
Pro-democracy conservative elites have failed to organise to defend democracy and advance their interests. The third-tier candidates opposing Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the GOP presidential nomination can’t even settle on a narrative for why such brazenly anti-democratic politicians pose a danger
While drug sales continue to grow at a healthy pace the market is seeing higher competition from trade generics
The desired response from the RBI in an environment of falling inflation and a declining dollar index is to slash rates, not hold them steady
Now that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has decided to regulate a range of widely traded digital coins as securities, and sued two of their largest trading venues for peddling them without first registering the tokens with the authority, there is a good chance that blockchain leadership may finally pass over to regulated banks.
A decade or so ago, many had thought of carbon capture and storage as the best hope for decarbonising the world’s power systems. A business that was always viable technologically has finally found an economic rationale with a number of markets now offering more than $70 a metric ton, which is the viability threshold
