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In the early 1990s, stock market trading took place through the BSE floor by open outcry. On a good day, BSE members did Rs 400 crore of turnover and earned 2% off buyers and sellers, thus bringing in

For an economy used to growing at double-digit rates, the last several quarters have been unusual for China.

The commerce ministry has produced a strategy paper for doubling exports in the next three years. This involves a doubling of exports from $225 billion in 2010-11 to $450 billion in 2013-14, implying

There was a time TCS, Infosys and Wipro routinely outperformed market expectations, ran up highly impressive top and bottom line figures and leaped past forecasts with ‘disgusting’ consistency.

After last week’s dramatic rout in global markets, investors are now facing a new, and disquieting environment in which long-held verities have been stood on their head.

The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council report suggests that higher GDP growth next year is achievable if government policies and administrative actions support investment.

Pakistan’s activities in Afghanistan have been making headlines again.

If one leaves out the smooth CEO succession at ICICI a couple of years ago, we notice that family-run businesses are being more proactive in planning CEO successions when compared to the professionall

There seems to be a new central bank bail-in template that is here to stay, from what can be inferred from the recent statements by G7 central banks and from the crisis resolution in Cyprus.

Are there alternative ways of addressing the MFI issue, considering that the new proposed guidelines for priority sector lending earmark 9% of credit for this segment?

The announcement of fresh investment proposals fell sharply during 2011.

Many of the arguments against foreign investment in retail in Parliament were fuelled by fear, self-interest and economic illiteracy.

There has been a tiny earthquake in economics over the last fortnight.

The Opposition is quick to pounce on the Centre for lack of transparency, but few states follow the same rules.

At my university, I help run a new initiative that focuses on finance, and we just hosted a visiting speaker, a prominent statistician known for some innovative algorithms for analysing data.

The slow momentum of the US recovery and the instability in the global markets have now added to the worries about the prospects of the Indian economy.

Governor Subbarao has dutifully lived up to the market consensus of delivering the 10th rate hike in 15 months—a 25-basis-point rise in the repo and reverse repo rates, bringing them to 7.5% and 6.5%,

Last month saw a Finnish nuclear power consortium make the world’s first announcement of a new site since the Fukushima disaster, which had persuaded many countries to reconsider their nuclear program

The 122 licences being cancelled accounted for just 4.3% of active subscribers and 2.8% of the industry’s revenues.

This is not a paean to cutting rates. It can’t be. Which central bank can legitimately wade into (further) monetary policy easing when the maximum function of the multiple inflation indicators that ar

What do the barrage of real estate messages that clog your mobile’s inbox each day signal?

It was in early December 2007 that the GMR Infra stock hit its lifetime high of Rs.134.35.

As the Euro zone wobbles in debt and austerity crises that ebb now and then but return with fury, it is evident that the real determiners of the fate of the tottering continent are investors rather th

Moody’s Analytics has recently taken on the RBI Governor for apparently suggesting that India could come closer to double-digit growth.

Plan expenditure is not the same as capital expenditure, and offers lots of scope for cuts in FY14.

The non-banking financial sector got a nasty shock last month.

Political lobbying has been the subject of intense controversy in our country ever since the leaked Radia tapes first hit the headlines.

On the important issue of smaller states, there are arguments for geographical reorganisation to improve well-being. But the issue is being raised in a bizarre manner, which can only harm the polity.