Champagne is outperforming gold and the S&P 500. Here’s what to buyKeep in mind that a decade ago the world’s finest bubbly accounted for a mere 2% of secondary market trades on Liv-Ex. That share climbed t...
30 Mar, 2023, 12.34 PM IST
Inflation hedges are getting harder for investors to findInflation is a global phenomenon, so few if any markets are untouched. Moreover, the speed and magnitude of any U.S. retreat will affect th...
10 Apr, 2022, 06.54 PM IST
China's trade war with US resulted in loss of USD 550 billion: ReportThe trade war, accompanied by a slowdown in China's economy and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has resulted in the World Bank predict...
06 Mar, 2022, 09.04 AM IST
Study suggests red wine may protect you from Covid, but how true is it?Drinking five or more glasses of red wine a week was associated with a reduction in risk of 17%.
16 Feb, 2022, 07.12 PM IST
China holds the line on 'Zero COVID,' but some wonder for how longChina, which has largely kept the coronavirus at bay since 2020, is going to ever more extreme lengths to quell outbreaks that have prolife...
21 Jan, 2022, 08.00 PM IST
Number of Indian students applying abroad doublesForeign education platforms Collegify, ForeignAdmits, Leverage Edu and Yocket also said that the majority of applicants are targeting STEM ...
26 Nov, 2021, 09.05 AM IST
Brexit fears started hitting UK trade as early as 2015, states new researchNew research shows for the first time that fears about Brexit weakened the UK's trading position long before the vote to leave the EU even ...
16 Oct, 2021, 10.30 AM IST
From dorm to fork: Young entrepreneurs are raising the barJoshi, who studied at Le Cordon Bleu London and Ferriers in France, set up her pasta business, Casarecce Artisanal Pasta, in the capital ci...
20 Jun, 2021, 07.45 AM IST
Wuhan lab leak theory’s revival risks making US-China relations worseChina last year responded to U.S. ally Australia’s initial push for an independent probe into where the virus came from with tariffs on exp...
02 Jun, 2021, 07.37 PM IST
What happens when wine connoisseurs lose their sense of smell or taste due to coronavirusFor some sommeliers, the experience of pleasure and desire without senses is amputated.
12 Mar, 2021, 05.30 PM IST
Chinese investment in Australia plummets amid tensionsThe annual tracking study from the university's East Asian Bureau of Economic Research recorded A$1 billion ($783 million) of Chinese inves...
28 Feb, 2021, 03.43 PM IST
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemicThe 10-member team sent to Wuhan by the World Health Organization was approved by President Xi Jinping's government after months of diploma...
14 Jan, 2021, 02.33 PM IST
Australia urges China to give access to WHO coronavirus experts 'without delay'Earlier this week, the head of the WHO said he was "very disappointed" that China had still not authorised the entry of a team of internati...
07 Jan, 2021, 10.56 AM IST
Polylateralism imperative for resurrecting multilateralismWhile at that time a rising power refused to join the international comity of nations, this time another rising (and expansionist) power is...
18 Sep, 2020, 06.45 PM IST
Clinking glasses with a robotic bartender: Contactless cocktails to be the new normal in post-Covid worldFear of enclosed spaces and crowds may change drinking culture for a long time to come.
18 Aug, 2020, 05.50 PM IST
Goodbye to bartenders: Robots could soon make your drinkYour local bar probably doesn’t have the money right now to bring in a more-than-$100,000 robot, either. And big-ticket customers like crui...
14 Aug, 2020, 09.26 AM IST
‘Conscious’ connoisseurs may hurt luxury marketMost luxury brands feel that the negative impact of the outbreak will linger even after the lockdown is lifted, it said in the ‘Impact of C...
30 May, 2020, 07.23 AM IST