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The Dollar Remains Bid, while Sterling Shrugs Off Johnson’s Political Woes

The dollar jumped yesterday making new highs against most of the major currencies, including the euro, sterling, the dollar-bloc and the Scandis. The yen and Swiss franc held in better, but the greenback still closed...

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Cyberbullying: Children growing up in a digital world post-pandemic

Cyberbullying is bullying that happens through digital devices such as phones or computers. It often happens over social media, text, email, instant messages, and gaming. Cyberbullying often takes the form of sending or sharing harmful...

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Ukraine’s War and the New World Order

As is often the case, crises are trend gas pedals. This is the case with the covid-19 pandemic, which is a catalyst for the 4th industrial revolution in the face of the unsustainability of the...

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The National International Dollar

Way back, in 1944, at what is known as the Bretton Woods Conference, representatives of the nations of the world took the curious decision to designate the US dollar, which is actually a national currency,...

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Markets Remain Unsettled Ahead of US (and Canada) Employment Reports

The sharp sell-off of US equities yesterday weighed on global equities today. The Asia Pacific bourses were a sea of read with many of the large markets off 2%-3%. Japan, which returned from a three-day...

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Transformation of consumer buying behaviour – Utilitarian shopping vs Hedonic shopping

Covid 19 pandemic has changed our way of life unpredictably. Consumer buying behaviour towards necessities and non-necessities has been impacted differently by the two-year prolonged pandemic situation. Spending patterns of an individual in both categories...

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Indian Market: NetFlix fixing its net

Weekends are sacrosanct. The overworked Indian population strives to bond with their relatives, friends and make the most of the 2 or 1.5 or 1 day weekends. More often the conversations tend to have this...

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Tyre Manufacturers, CCI & CARTEL Theory

HOW CCI WORKS: The CCI, through its investigative arm, the office of the Director General of the CCI (DG), conducts investigations, raids – complaints are typically initiated on filing of information through any one with...

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Cartel Theory & Indian Tyre manufacturers

CCI fined five Tyre companies namely Apollo, MRF, CEAT, JK, Birla and their association i.e. Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) for indulging in price-fixing in concert to increase the prices of cross ply/bias tyres variants...

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How Indian Citizenry May Look At The Union Budget 2022-23?

In this paper an attempt has been made to objectively reflect on the Budget 2022-23 trying to gauge how an average Indian citizenry may be looking at the Union Budget 2022-23. The idea is to...

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CCI & Platform Competition: The regulatory elephant inside your hotel room, retail store and App Store

The Economics of Online Markets [1] continues to puzzle the Competition Commission of India ( CCI ) even after releasing their market study findings [2] of the E-commerce sector in India on January 8, 2020....

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Equities and Bonds Sell-Off

Surging yields and plummeting equities are the main developments today.   The US 10-year yield pushed above 1.80% and the two-year yield is above 1% for the first time since February 2020.  European yields are pulling...