Only 3 business days to go, in what has been a challenging Q3! Take profits or put more money on the table? It could go either way, with a hangover in Q4. In July, I...
The new security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong and the ongoing political turmoil cast a dark shadow on the financial hub’s competitiveness and attractiveness to international business. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced...
For two years Finland’s government gave 2,000 unemployed citizens €560 a month with no strings attached. It was the first nationwide basic income experiment. The concept is slowly becoming difficult for people to ignore. A...
Migrant labour who lived in various parts of the country are in real trouble. They have lost their source of livelihood. Most of them are day-labourers and are devoid of all sources of income. They...
Just two weeks into this crisis some are actually calculating how many deaths society can accept to salvage the economy. For DW’s Henrik Böhme, this is unacceptable. It’s a question to which there is no...
While the true extent of the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 outbreak is yet to be determined, what’s certain is that the crisis will claim millions of jobs. But a handful of sectors may...
In the third decades of the 21st century, the world is witnessing the biggest scathing attack of the virus in a decade on the survival of human beings. At the same time, it is also...
A major source of banks’ optimism is their various expectations of an economic recovery in 2020. It has to be said that this is not widely shared by other forecasters (including both the Fed and...
The Modi 2.0 Government has come out with its Budget 1.0. As wide expected, the objective of becoming a $ 5 trillion economy has driven this budget and it reverberates all the initiatives announced in...
A major upheaval is underway in China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) finance sector after numerous cases of fraud and negligence. As loans helped finance cars and property, could the crisis worsen the country’s economic slowdown? It’s not...
Globalization needs a serious update; otherwise, we’re all doomed. So says the World Economic Forum — which brought us the earlier, defective versions. “Globalization 4.0” — you might be forgiven for rolling your eyes at...
“Don’t blame God for creating the tiger, but thank him for not giving it wings. “One wonders if ancestral Indian wisdom has not again struck. And this time, Narendra Modi, having triumphed in power in...
