Protests and violence are so routine in Bangladesh that treating the ongoing crackdown on opponents of Sheikh Hasina as anything other than the noise generated by the election might seem like a stretch. From the latest deaths of opposition activists in police shootings, and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) demanding an “interim” administration that …
India’s biggest winemaker, Sula Vineyards, is heading to the stock market, betting on diversifying the taste buds of a burgeoning urban middle class in a country that has long favored hard liquor. Wine accounts for less than one percent of India’s massive alcohol market, with spirits being the drink of choice in the country of …
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Two tankers were heading to Russia on Monday, expecting to be filled with Russian crude as a price cap on its oil exports from a coalition of Western nations came into effect. On Friday, the European Union agreed to cap Russian maritime oil prices at $60 a barrel, in a bid to limit Moscow’s revenue …
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Eh. We didn’t expect it: India has quietly become a remarkable emerging market over the past decade. Not only did it easily post the best performance of any major emerging market, but it was also pretty much the only one to generate positive returns. If you already knew that, congratulations! You’re either an emerging equity …
CBDCs are on the way. From China to the United Arab Emirates, from the Bahamas to Nigeria, countries around the world have begun testing the use of central bank digital currencies as a way to convert their national fiat currencies into a digital medium of exchange. One of the drivers of these state-backed digital currencies …
Interview with Devanshi Tripathi – Founder and CEO of TripGo Hospitality Devanshi Tripathi is the Founder and CEO of TripGo Hospitality, one of Bangalore’s emerging F&B brands. Inspired by Bangalore’s popular pub culture, Devanshi created OysĨer, Bar & KiĨchen under the TripGo Hospitality banner. She is originally from Lucknow and completed her education at Loreto …
For more than three decades, financial engineering probably played a bigger role in wealth creation than the economic activity on the ground. Some financial innovations have helped improve economic activity, and some have broken the financial systems they were meant to strengthen. One of the tools of financial engineering is the buyback of shares by …
Beautiful and colorful aerial view of the Mumbai skyline during twilight as seen from Currey Road on February 16, 2022 in Mumbai, India. Pratik Chorgé | Hindustan Times | Getty Images India is expected to overtake Japan and Germany to become the world’s third-largest economy, according to S&P Global and Morgan Stanley. The S&P forecast …
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India overtook North America to take the global top spot in the smartwatch market in the quarter ending in September, according to a report by market researcher Counterpoint. Festival sales and the proliferation of affordable smartwatches helped grow the local market by 171% year-over-year. Affordable smartwatch models with larger screens and adding features like Bluetooth …
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The European Union again on Friday failed to reach an agreement over a cap on Russian oil prices, with the bloc’s easternmost members, including Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, objecting that the proposed price of $60-70 a barrel for Russian crude is too generous and way above the rates that Russia currently sells crude. European …
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