Interview with Asia-Pacific economist, Morgan Stanley
The National Stock Exchange listed the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 on its platform last week.
Activists burnt the US flag and logos of Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals - as they have done nothing to end the sufferings of the victims for the last 32 years.
Indian stock market indices have climbed close to their all-time highs, even as key overseas indices such as the Dow Jones, FTSE 100 and Nikkei 225 are reeling under the sub-prime meltdown in the US.
Celebrated former captain Rahul Dravid is all but certain to to be the Indian cricket team's next head coach after he formally applied for the high-profile position on Tuesday.
According to Dow Jones VentureSource, a VC industry tracking firm, investments grew in almost every venture hub globally in the April-June quarter, a sign of recovery in the global economy.
In a historic referendum on Thursday, the United Kingdom voted to leave the Eurozone.
'We continue to believe that the global economy will narrowly avoid a recession, despite expecting the US, Canada, and most of Europe to fall into recession at some point over the next year or so.'
Foreign direct investment into India has surged to over $25 billion in 2007-08 and the country's foreign exchange reserve crossed $341 billion as of Tuesday, Ashwani Kumar, minister of state for commerce and industry has said.
India was the best performing wealth market globally in 2017 as its total wealth swelled from $6,584 billion in 2016 to $8,230 billion in 2017
Continuing population growth and development of a modern economy propelled by advanced technology is likely to push India's GDP past that of China by the middle of the century, according to economist Paul Erdman.
India imposes over 100 per cent duty on imported vehicles and the likes of American cult bike maker Harley Davidson had made noises in the past asking to bring down the rates.
India has decided to put the process of bringing down duties on edible oil on the fast track to reach an early agreement with Asean for a Free Trade Agreement.
Rupert Murdoch's international financial daily The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones & Company, is all set to launch its facsimile edition in India next month. The newspaper, to be launched in Mumbai, is likely to be priced at Rs 30 a copy.
But Trump is about to announce his candidacy for president in 2024. And it is not clear if Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the present hero of disenchanted Republicans, or Biden, who says he might seek re-election (but will decide in 2023), can checkmate Trump, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
'People always short-change the resilience of the economy.'
Surging oil prices are unlikely to restrain the strong economic growth in India and China, Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asian Development Bank said.
The old guard is still involved in broad corporate decision-making, but quite a few new business heads have started making their mark at the group
Rupert Murdoch-promoted News Corporation on Monday said it will invest $100-million in the next 12-months to start six regional channels under the Star brand in India.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch plans to invest $100 million within a year to launch 6 regional channels under Star brand in India.
While the ministry sources clarified that the overall policy for fax editions is still under review, this proposal has been given approval on a case-to-case basis in FIPB's meeting held last week. The proposal was turned down twice earlier pending the review but the company had applied to FIPB under deferred proposal agenda in its meeting on January 9.
The Union Carbide Corporation gave a compensation of $470 million (Rs 715 crore) after the toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide factory on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, killed over 3,000 people and affected 1.02 lakh others.
Post partnership with S&P, the exchange is looking at launching a slew of international products, too.
The market's sensitivity to the US Fed's balance sheet changes makes it vulnerable to the possible tapering of the bond buying programme and the resulting stagnation or even shrinkage in the balance sheet.
Under tremendous pressure from India to drop Dow Chemicals as London Olympics sponsors, the Games' organising committee chief Sebastian Coe said they are ready to meet the activists protesting against the company because of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
HCL Tech was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising over 4 per cent, followed by HDFC Bank, Infosys, NTPC, Nestle India, TCS and HUL. NSE Nifty surged 337.80 points to 14,845.10.
'We want to make sure we stay in India and we have very high hopes from India,' says Mark Mobius.
The global billionaire population reached a record 2,325 with the addition of 155 new billionaires in 2014, registering a rise of 7 per cent from 2013.
Shanghai is the worst performing stock market of the world in CY 2008. It has just replaced Vietnam at the top of the ladder among the worst performers with a 48.97 per cent fall.
High growth is also much easier to log in a small business than in a Reliance.
Many giving double-digit returns, with India up less than one per cent; even so, it has done much better than other emerging markets.
'Allocate some parts of one's surplus income towards cryptocurrencies, considering the immense growth potential of this emerging asset class.'
All Sensex components ended in the red. SBI was the top loser, followed by ONGC, Axis Bank, ITC, Titan, Bajaj Auto, TCS and IndusInd Bank.
The benchmark Sensex companies' underlying earnings per share are down 3 per cent (on a cumulative basis) since January 2015, against 25 per cent rise in the index value during the period
He doesn't expect banks to raise interest rates, as they'd not reduced these after the policy rate cuts in May and March.
Ravin Gandhi wrote an op-ed for CNBC following Trump's Charlottesville remarks but was quickly trolled and racially abused by readers.
The group companies now lead the market capitalisation league table in sectors such as ports, power generation, gas distribution and transmission, and power transmission and distribution, ahead of incumbents in both public and private sector. This has Gautam Adani family the second wealthiest in business in India.
A livid Michael Clarke has lashed out at his team-mates for the manner in which they lost the first two Tests against India, saying 'we have let each other down'.
Virat Kohli and Jonathan Trott were involved in a verbal duel during the fourth day of the final Test between India and England in Nagpur on Sunday.
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