US Stock Market | Wall Street ends higher as hopes of Iran war resolution offset inflation fearsWall Street stocks rebounded sharply in late trading Monday, reversing earlier losses after President Trump indicated the U.S.-Iran conflic...
10 Mar, 2026, 06.10 AM IST
Asim Munir’s ‘India a Mercedes, Pakistan a dumper truck’ remark a confession of Islamabad’s economic reality: Rajnath SinghDefence Minister Rajnath Singh dismissed Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir's economic comparison, calling it a confession of Pakistan's strugg...
22 Aug, 2025, 09.27 PM IST
NATO floats cybersecurity to be included in new spending targetNATO is considering a new defense spending target of 5% of GDP. This includes 3.5% for core defense and 1.5% for defense-related areas. Cyb...
28 May, 2025, 04.53 PM IST
Capital flight to safe haven? Investors shift billions from U.S. to Europe as Washington’s chaos fuels market anxietyInvestors are shifting billions from the US to Europe due to economic instability under Donald Trump. US stock markets are under pressure d...
14 Mar, 2025, 12.17 AM IST
Looking for stocks to buy before election result? Insiders scanning these 5 sectorsInvestors are looking at sectors like capital goods, defense, and real estate for growth opportunities post-election. The focus is on infra...
31 May, 2024, 06.08 PM IST
China maintains defence budget growth despite economic travailsChina's defence budget for 2024 increases by 7.2% to CNY 1.66554 trillion ($231.4 billion), prioritizing the People's Liberation Army (PLA)...
12 Mar, 2024, 08.18 AM IST
Keeping some cash; taking a barbell approach to portfolio: Ganeshram JayaramanGaneshram Jayaraman of Avendus Spark discusses the portfolio construct with a focus on defensives and industrials. He is cautious on the ma...
29 Feb, 2024, 11.50 AM IST
For capital gains, 4 midcap capital goods and engineering stocks have upside potential of up to 32%Two things which impact the demand for capital goods. First is the spending, both by the government and private sector. Second is the focus...
31 May, 2023, 11.59 AM IST
China's defence budget likely to grow despite economic cost of coronavirusChina set a 7.5% rise for the defence budget in 2019, outpacing what ended up as full-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6.1% in t...
18 May, 2020, 03.11 PM IST
VE Commercial Vehicle to go ahead with Bhopal plant investment, production to begin in April 2020“Dealers are defensive, financers are defensive and so are automakers. As a result, there has been hardly any pre-buy. We expect the same t...
04 Mar, 2020, 11.21 PM IST
View: US needs an explicit India strategyThe ‘India Fatigue’ lens essentially looks at the trajectory of the US-India ties from the conception (or rather misconception) of strategi...
12 Aug, 2019, 05.09 PM IST
Nikkei tumbles to 6-week low; growth woes, trade tensions hit big capsJapan's benchmark index has dived 13.2 percent from a 27-year high hit in early October.
10 Dec, 2018, 01.04 PM IST
What if the richest person paid on government's behalf?The 2018 Robin Hood Index of Bloomberg estimates that India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani could run the Indian government for 20 days.
13 Feb, 2018, 06.12 PM IST
Ballooning revenue deficit is far more worrisome than nominal slippage in fiscal deficitThe revenue deficit has been breached by a huge margin in the Budget. As against the target of 1.9% of GDP, RD for the current fiscal is es...
05 Feb, 2018, 04.47 PM IST
Greece's military budget is projected to grow in 2015, despite country's economic mayhemFor 2015, NATO projects that Greece will spend 2.4 per cent of its GDP on defense, which is actually a 0.1 per cent increase in spending ov...
30 Jun, 2015, 01.48 PM IST
Expect more selling in markets, irrespective of Budget 2014: Pramod Gubbi, Ambit Capital"Much of client base is driven by a longer term approach and what they are watching out for in the Budget is what the government intends to...
09 Jul, 2014, 07.06 PM IST
Budget 2013: FM curbs plan spend in FY13 to Rs 4.28 lakh croreFM has been working with PM on the budget process, exchanging daily notes, pouring over the numbers to meet the revised targets.
25 Feb, 2013, 10.22 AM IST