Year end and expiry to see markets more circumspect
Arun Kejriwal | 28 Dec, 2021 |
| The week gone by made us realise the vulnerability that affects our markets. Friday, from the previous week and continuing into Monday, the first day of the current week, rattled markets and virtually knocked them off their feet. |
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Will work from home come to stay?
D.C. Pathak | 13 Dec, 2021 |
| There is a lot of deliberation among human resource developers, chief executive officers and corporate consultants on the long-term viability of the switch to 'work from home' mode compelled by the Covid fallout across the spectrum of businesses. |
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Virtual Trade Fairs - Technology to the rescue of SMEs
Moonis Rehman | 07 Dec, 2021 |
| As businesses seemed to be limping back to normalcy after suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic for almost two years now, a new variant “Omicron '' is posing a renewed threat to mankind. Reports suggest that the new variant is more contagious than the previous ones and may deal a big blow to the already impacted MSMEs in India. |
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India's rise on the world horizon
D.C. PATHAK | 23 Nov, 2021 |
| In the narrow narrative of domestic politics - marked by minority versus majority controversy whipped up in the name of 'secularism', a distorted projection of the strong governance of Prime Minister Modi |
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Diwali fest as a tool of 'Soft Power'
Nirendra Dev | 07 Nov, 2021 |
| The move by US lawmakers led by Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney from New York to get a new draft law that would declare Diwali as a federal holiday is a landmark event of our time. |
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In the light of the population explosion debate
NIRENDRA DEV | 17 Oct, 2021 |
| Mizoram has made news -- not necessarily for the wrong reasons but certainly for quite unexpected reasons. North-Eastern India generally makes news due to insurgency-related incidents or other instances of violence and killings. This time a mother of 15 children and a widow has been honoured and rewarded with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh by Mizoram's Sports Minister Robert Romawia Royte.
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How feasible is a EU Army?
Asad Mirza | 11 Oct, 2021 |
| Proposals for a European Union (EU) army have re-emerged after the Afghan fiasco – but many member states still remain ‘hard to convince, about its feasibility. |
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Chinese chequers in the Middle East - First stop Oman
Sumit Kumar Singh | 04 Oct, 2021 |
| The Chinese pursuit of its rightful place on the global stage and emergence from a century of humiliation at foreign hands has an intricate design. Sun Tzu's golden nuggets of winning without firing a shot and winning through cunning seem to be at the core of its approach |
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The Hocus Pocus about Quad and AUKUS
Saeed Naqvi | 26 Sep, 2021 |
| Robert Blackwill, US ambassador at the time of anti-terror fireworks over Afghanistan, had established a tradition of seating guests at lunch around a circular table, where he grandly held forth, initiating a discussion. "Imagine I am Henry Kissinger" would be one of his opening gambits. An idea was tossed up. A discussion followed. The one who spoke the most, |
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Flipping of Indian Unicorns
SME Times News Bureau | 25 Sep, 2021 |
| India has been proud of its startups creating immense value and adding to the GDP of the country. Our startups could be a reason for envy of our competitors too. |
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Biden's QUAD summit could yield up to $100bn in military sales
Robinder Sachdev | 19 Sep, 2021 |
| US President Joe Biden will be hosting the QUAD countries' heads of governments summit this coming week, in Washington D.C. comprising of the US, Japan, Australia, and India. By end of the week, there could be announcements of military deals with Japan, Australia, and India, that may total up to $100 billion in American defence exports. |
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From Trust Deficits to Trust Deposits
Samir Sathe | 24 Aug, 2021 |
| "I do not trust our people to deliver their best", "I do not trust my customers to pay us on time". Or "I do not trust our government to make judicious use of our tax money". |
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Afghanistan's future
Asad Mirza | 23 Aug, 2021 |
| The Talibans takeover of Afghanistan has once again put a big question mark on its future, but it has also offered a glimmer of hope for the redevelopment of this war-ravaged country utilising its natural resources. |
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South Asia in India's focus
D.C. PATHAK | 20 Jul, 2021 |
| Developments in Afghanistan marking a steady rise of Taliban's hold on that country -- this resulted in the evacuation of staff from the Indian Consulate at Kandahar -- confirms many readings on how the Pak-Afghan belt would shape up in the aftermath of the withdrawal of American troops from the messy theatre, the scene of an unending 'war on terror' launched by the US in Afghanistan way back in the wake of 9/11. |
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Outliers: A Macro and Bond Update
Suyash Choudhary | 15 Jul, 2021 |
| A persistent theme of Indias bond curve is its very attractive steepness even up to mid-duration points. This has allowed for substantial carry plus roll down benefits from a portfolio standpoint. The assumption in this sort of a strategy is that, while bond yields can rise, they should do so relatively modestly and in an orderly fashion for the excess carry and the benefit of roll down to manifest itself. |
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Saving the small contractor
Vikash Khandelwal, CEO, Eqaro Surety Private Limited | 02 Jul, 2021 |
| The COVID-19 pandemic has had a debilitating impact on the Indian economy. The 2nd wave which was far more lethal and ravaging in its impact than the first one, has pushed us into the midst of heightened levels of economic uncertainty. The viciousness of the wave necessitated the re-imposing of curbs on movement of goods, interstate travel, attendance at offices, functioning of malls, market places etc. Travellers from India were also barred from most countries. The focus shifted to survival at any cost and making it to the other side of the pandemic, ALIVE. |
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China's biggest challenge: Surviving autocratic Xi
NC Bipindra | 29 Jun, 2021 |
| Mao Zedong, it is said, was furious over the slights he had received at the Eighth Party Congress (1956 and 1958) -- the call for collective leadership, the assertions that China would never have a cult of personality, the removal of Mao's thought as the guiding principle for the nation, and the criticisms of adventurism. |
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US labour market: Heed the signs
Sreejith Balasubramanian | 13 Jun, 2021 |
| Imported tightening is a possible risk to the Reserve Bank of Indias (RBI) current accommodative monetary policy stance, but it is likely mitigated now.
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Seven years of 'statesmanship'
Raman Suri | 30 May, 2021 |
| India, like the rest of the world, is facing a pandemic, which till today has affected 168,599,045 people and resulted in 3,507,477 deaths worldwide. |
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The great Indian Crypto circus
Srinath Sridharan | 23 May, 2021 |
| Amongst all its Indian stakeholders, there are strong undercurrents, deafening official-silence and unofficial-posturing, all around. Over the past few months, the government has had its varying views & intent about crypto. The RBI has been silent about Crypto. |
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Immunity boosting millets
Asad Mirza | 27 Apr, 2021 |
| Millets need to be promoted more proactively by the government, to boost its demand and consumption to turn it into a profitable crop for the farmers. |
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Russia-US rapprochement?
Asad Mirza | 19 Apr, 2021 |
| The recent announcement by the White House sources that US President Joe Biden has proposed that he and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin hold a summit in a third country in the coming months, has increased hopes of a rapprochement between the two old rivals. |
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Indian agriculture: Maladies and remedies
Asad Mirza | 05 Apr, 2021 |
| Since Independence, the agriculture sector has remained the main source of national income and occupation in India. In 1947, 72 per cent of the total working population was engaged in agricultural sector, but still a majority of Indias poor (some 770 million people or about 70 per cent) inhabit the rural areas. |
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Equity and debt outlook for March
IANS | 16 Mar, 2021 |
| Global equities continued to trade higher and exhibited unusually broad momentum, delivering 12-month highs on several equities benchmarks up until the middle of the month. |
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Acceleration: A Macro And Bond Update
Suyash Choudhary | 02 Mar, 2021 |
| Bond markets around the world are not liking 2021 so far. As an illustration, magnitude of rise in many major markets at the 10 year point is of the order of 35 - 75 bps just in the last couple of months. |
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Cryptocurrency Bill: Killing the messenger?
Srinath Sridharan | 21 Feb, 2021 |
| The Indian government is planning to ban all operations of cryptocurrencies in the country, except for a state-backed digital currency. The ban will be operationalised with a new law coming to effect. |
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Don't think twice, it's all right: Union Budget FY22
Suyash Choudhary | 02 Feb, 2021 |
| The budget exercise has tended to be seen with both wariness as well as weariness; the former because many a time the assumptions embedded dont pass muster with private forecasters and the latter because such an exercise is often accorded more importance than it usually deserves. However the present budget may just go down as a notable exception to these perceptions, especially the one about wariness. To that extent, it indeed signifies a break and is consistent with markets expectation of an exercise worthy of the unprecedented times that have been brought upon us. |
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Under Biden, America will be a force for good again
Frank F. Islam | 31 Jan, 2021 |
| With the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, America is closing one of the darkest and saddest chapters in its history and opening a new one filled with hope and optimism. The swearing-in of the former Vice President and Senator heralds a new dawn not just in the United States but the world as well. |
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India at 72
Asad Mirza | 26 Jan, 2021 |
| In the first year of the new decade, we'll mark the 75 years of our Independence and 72 years of India as a Republic, but there are many questions, which assail the common Indian |
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Will budget be the tipping point?
Arun Kejriwal | 19 Jan, 2021 |
| Markets continued their upward movement but not without their corrections and sharp intraday moves as well. On three of the five trading days we saw markets slipping into the red or negative territory and then recovering to close higher. This also led to sharp movements between the high and the low of the day.
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Brexit: Finale at last
SME Times News Bureau | 05 Jan, 2021 |
| The British public will have to face the repercussions of the sordid Brexit saga, mostly based on lies, during the pandemic times. |
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