Stop eating tomatoes, carrots, avocados and eggs; Trump tariffs will ruin your taste and budgetIn 2025, American consumers are facing significant food price increases, particularly for fruits and vegetables, due to tariffs and relianc...
15 May, 2025, 03.17 PM IST
Not just problem boy El Nino, here's another disruptor for India's economyEl Nino and the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) are causing below-normal rainfall in India, which could lead to a significant drought. The ...
30 Aug, 2023, 01.55 PM IST
India's food price surge forces government measures to improve suppliesWhile annual retail inflation was at a 15-month high of 7.44% in July, food price inflation rose to 11.5%, its highest in more than 3 1/2 y...
25 Aug, 2023, 07.17 AM IST
RBI's rate cut timeline may be pushed to FY25: DBS"Our own expectation is that they aren't going to change anything on the rates front for the rest of this fiscal year," said Radhika Rao, e...
27 Jul, 2023, 12.25 AM IST
'Third' of Pakistan under water as flood aid efforts gather paceThe disaster could not have come at a worse time for Pakistan, where the economy is in free fall. The government has declared an emergency ...
30 Aug, 2022, 01.04 PM IST
Supply chain crisis: Shoppers are facing shortages of beer to popcorn this summerWhen manufacturers can’t make enough glass bottles and aluminum cans, it trickles down to people’s ability to buy things like soda and beer.
20 Jun, 2022, 09.10 AM IST
Signs are flashing in chips, shipping and fertilizer that inflation may have peakedThe spot rate for shipping containers -- which tells us more about expenses we can expect later in the pipeline for apparel in Chicago, lux...
07 Jun, 2022, 07.36 AM IST
Can high-tech firms with actionable inputs eliminate uncertainties in agriculture?The ecosystem can help the government achieve its goal of doubling farm income by 2022. It can also power the rural economy, seen as an imp...
19 Jul, 2020, 12.47 PM IST
Tomatoes & onions may be eating up home budgets, but prices set to fall soonTomato supplies are likely to rise in two weeks. “Market will begin to cool when tomatoes from the Nashik belt begin arriving from August 1...
02 Aug, 2017, 12.34 AM IST
Is KitKat a chocolate or a biscuit? A huge increase in classification of various food products under GSTA product might have an identity in itself, but it also has an identity in how we use it, and that use creates the value on which this kind...
08 Jul, 2017, 10.14 AM IST
Teenagers everywhere don’t understand money: Study56 percent of students have a bank account but two out of three don’t have the skills to manage it and can’t interpret a bank statement.
26 May, 2017, 11.58 AM IST
Nestle’s slowdown seen leading to fewer brandsNestle needs to reignite sales that have disappointed investors for four straight quarters. One solution: Get smaller.
20 Aug, 2013, 05.09 AM IST
Japan's luxury chocolate maker Royce enters India's booming gourmet food businessAt a time when Indian consumers are shunning discretionary spends and almost all mid-segment consumer goods brands are stepping up promotio...
12 Jul, 2013, 06.25 PM IST
- To check wheat, soy price rise, US must stop converting corn to ethanol
Unless uptrend of corn is suppressed by suspension of ethanol production, the uptrend in wheat, soy and edible oils cannot be reversed.
09 Aug, 2012, 03.11 AM IST
Why food prices could tumble soonSteadily rising food prices have a built-in corrective: China would go beyond hiking reserve requirements to hike interest rates, slowing d...
03 Feb, 2011, 10.49 AM IST
- Govt stalls key liberalisation proposals
Last week, food minister Sharad Pawar, thus far an aggressively prime mover of the sugar decontrol proposal, dropped a bombshell by announc...
26 Jan, 2011, 11.06 PM IST
- Restaurants hit upon unique ways to tame runaway prices
From Sanjeev Kapoor to Saravana Bhavan, all hit upon unique ways to tame runaway prices. Top 5 restaurants in Bangkok, Thailand
11 Jul, 2010, 12.36 AM IST