opinion

India’s business families have unique values that are worth emulating

In a world where multinational corporations and professional managers think nothing of resorting to mass layoffs to lower their costs, some of India’s business families serve as excellent models of placing human beings before shareholder returns

Meet the ‘crypto caucus’: The US lawmakers defending digital coins

A bipartisan mix of libertarians, business champions and tech utopians is uniting on legislation to help the sector grow

UPI Lite poses a big threat to wallets

Not only does UPI Lite mimic wallets but it also provides benefits such as a zero merchant discount rate (meaning merchants don’t have to forgo a slice of their revenues to the payment company).

Rising India focus by drug firms will benefit consumers

Pharma companies are building product portfolios based on domestic market needs

FMCG: Chasing growth in the time of high inflation

The next few years could be tough for FMCG companies due to high inflation and slowing demand. But times like these also present growth opportunities of a different kind

App stores are core digital infrastructure that must be under government oversight

By virtue of being gatekeepers to the digital economy, policymakers should consider classifying app stores as core digital infrastructure that is brought under government oversight

GST overhaul: What to expect, when to expect?

GST Council should make GoM reports public and decide the next course of action fast so that the country has the revenue cushion to absorb economic shocks

Investing in an inflationary environment

Investors need to readjust their investment portfolios to factor in the change in macro conditions

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Let the market decide open offer price for PSUs

How Chelsea’s next owners might profit from football

Making more of Chelsea’s off-field commercial potential may make sense for the club’s buyers

Yield curve is often right but for the wrong reasons

An inversion often comes before a recession, but other economic factors are at play

Shane Warne’s most lasting legacy may be as much in the boardroom as on the field

Shane Warne was so much more than a celebrity cricketer

Tata Consumer Products-Tata Coffee: Simpler but stronger decoction in the making

The company’s management expects earnings to improve by 5-10 percent as a result of the consolidation

General Strike | The unionised public sector employee is part of the ‘haves’ and not ‘have nots’ of society

General strike re-enacts a drill but will achieve little 

Martin Wolf writes: A new world of currency disorder looms

What might emerge are two monetary systems — a western and a Chinese one — operating in different ways and overlapping uncomfortably

How will oil markets cope without China’s demand?

Were China to make good on its threats to invade Taiwan, it could face not just the economic embargo that Russia is struggling with — it could be cut off from supplies of the energy it needs to power its war machine and the wider economy

To boost, or not to boost, that is the complicated question

Weighing the disruption of mild COVID-19 on everyday life is important — though data are sparse on how well a fourth dose might lower the risk of mild infections

Supreme Court's landmark decision boosts transparency in securities law violation cases

A person accused of serious charges such as fraud, etc. cannot be denied the copy of the investigation report of SEBI 

As sustainability reporting kicks in, ESG investing faces global credibility risk

Paul Clements-Hunt, who coined the acronym ESG, said that the ESG fund industry is headed for a ‘shakeout’ over the next five years 

Why Biden's promise of gas to the EU makes no sense 

Even if the 2030 target is achieved, which is a tall order, the US will be able to replace only 30 percent of Russia’s supply. 

Why Uttar Pradesh’s $1 trillion GDP target is achievable with Yogi Adityanath back in power

UP must start looking at cities as engines of economic growth rather than the sideshow in a feudal-agrarian politics that has dominated the Hindi heartland since Independence 

Decoding PLI: Big opportunity for local manufacturing of white goods

Ind-Ra sees a substantial jump in the indigenisation of AC and LED component manufacturing as a result of the PLI scheme, provided the challenges of scale and technology are addressed

Apple rallies like it’s 2003 as buyers flock back to big tech

Apple rose for an 11th-consecutive day in New York, climbing 1.9% to close at $178.96 and roughly $3 shy of a closing record reached in early January. The longest-winning streak since 2003 sent the stock back into the green for the year, and follows similar breakouts in Nvidia Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in the past week.

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Are higher oil prices the new normal?

In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: Spotlight on gold NBFCs, clock ticks on coal supply, inside wealth inequality, the crypto talk, and more

Crypto Tax | Government must reconsider its current regressive stand

What is disheartening is that India possesses immense potential to effectively become a leader in the cryptocurrency space. A 30 percent taxation impedes such possibilities