Sensex can zoom to 1.5 lakh by 2029 but don't be a speculatorWhile there are several reasons for this surge, peaks and troughs, booms and busts are an integral part of the stock market saga - much lik...
11 May, 2024, 01.21 PM IST
Recession signs hard to miss if stock message is taken seriouslyPools of gloom await anyone looking for a message in stocks.
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Why a century of Coke and its iconic bottle can’t just be cannedIt is almost mandatory for the bottle’s silhouette to appear in Coke ads, the shape instantly signifying the drink, exactly as it was meant...
25 May, 2015, 08.04 AM IST
Ask Amartya Sen why he will not engage in a debate with me: Jagdish N BhagwatiWhat I have objected to are the specific anti-poverty policies that Professor Sen has backed, in one way or another.
03 Jun, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- India's well placed to take on Round 2 of recession: Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz believes India will be able to withstand another depression & may even reap some indirect benefits.Is worst over for mkts |...
30 May, 2010, 07.35 AM IST
- American depression spectre may not be real
The Great Depression of the 1930s - the last time the term rightly applied - was industrial capitalism’s worst calamity.
23 Jul, 2008, 03.56 AM IST
- High finance laid low
Except for oil executives, no group of business leaders is now more resented than the titans of finance, bankers, traders, hedge fund manag...
11 Apr, 2008, 04.13 AM IST
- Saving housing in US has both moral and economic implications
US Congress now seems increasingly intent on aiding millions of homeowners who can’t easily pay their mortgages and may face foreclosure.
04 Apr, 2008, 12.24 AM IST
- Lower home prices succour for housing collapse
Easy credit, lax lending standards and panic buying raised home prices to foolish levels as weak borrowers got loans.
07 Mar, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- Obama takes stage as change agent
Hillary Clinton is taking a page out of Walter Mondale’s playbook and asking voters this question about Barack Obama’s mostly boilerplate p...
26 Feb, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- Geopolitics at $100 a barrel
Oil is flirting with $100 a barrel. Do not think this just another price spike. It suggests a new geopolitical era when energy increasingly...
16 Nov, 2007, 12.00 AM IST
- Catch-22 of economics
We are now in the ‘blame phase’ of the economic cycle. As the housing slump deepens and financial markets swing erratically, we’ve embarked...
03 Sep, 2007, 01.31 AM IST
- Weak dollar? Currency, at 10-year low, may fall more
Anyone who says the dollar is weak after it fetched a record-low $1.3681 against the euro and the fewest pence against the pound in 25 year...
08 May, 2007, 04.15 AM IST
- Essar Telecom ties up with Virgin Group
The idea is to get into a co-branding pact for Essar Telecom’s retail stores christened "The Mobile Store".
21 Mar, 2007, 12.25 AM IST