By Anjan Roy For people life begins at forty. For the Indian rupee, life is beginning to be exciting at 80. The Indian rupee crossed the psychological barrier of 80 to a US dollar on Tuesday in trading on foreign exchange markets. On Wednesday, it recovered a wee bit. Now, it is becoming exciting to […]
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By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi said recently that India is the fastest growing economy at the moment. Statistics wise it may be true as other countries are doing badly. But the question to be asked is India’s growth story a myth or reality? On the face of it Indian economy may look […]
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Matein Khalid My strategy recommendation to my friends was to short Brent crude at or above $120 for the $65 target I got from the world’s pre-eminent oil economist/OPEC watcher Ed Morse. The short Brent idea has been a money gusher now that Brent has plunged 7% in today’s session to 99 as I write. The fall in oil prices was inevitable. King Dollar is at 20 […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India finds itself in an unenviable position. Choosing an option has become ever more difficult. Financial sector crisis continues and the country has been suffering from negative shocks to credit growth which pushes up the macro vulnerability and increases downside risks to the growth in GDP. However, as the economy recovers […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 1 July 2022 – With global attention on Hong Kong SAR as it marks the 25th anniversary of its establishment, China Media Group (CMG) turned to Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications (HGC) to help it share the celebrations with audiences across China and around the world. Providing one-stop connectivity, HGC mobilized its MetroNET, Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services and enterprise […]
By Marlon Ettinger Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing alliance elected 142 MPs to France’s National Assembly on Sunday. In some ways this was a success: the broad left more than doubled its number of MPs and helped strip President Emmanuel Macron of his majority, though it also fell way short of the 289 seats needed to make […]
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By Sankar Ray “France has had enough of its monarch president. If the French people decide to give us a majority then we will govern . . . Destiny is in your hands,” crisply said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the coalition of various hues of left and green at a gathering of working people […]
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By Anjan Roy As the three big names of Europe rolled into Kyiv by train on June 16 of for a pow-wow with the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky, Russia had warned France, Germany and Italy of consequences. President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and Prime Minister Mario Draghi Italy had thought […]
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 20 June 2022 – With an USD 80M capital injection in May 2022, when crypto markets are bearish, confidence in Babel Finance by many of the world’s leading investment institutions and investors shows that there is a future in crypto. Del Wang, the Co-Founder and CEO of Babel Finance, is confident in the growth of cryptocurrency, and the increasing mainstream adoption of […]
By Sankar Ray Pakistan’s new foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s speech at the foundation ceremony of Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad marks a complete hyphenation from his maternal grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who took over as the foreign minister in the early 1960s following the death of Mohammad Ali Bogra under the Chief Martial […]
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VICTORIA, SEYCHELLES – Media OutReach – 14 June 2022 – Bybit, one of the fastest growing crypto exchanges in the world, launched today its first-ever Bear Market Guide, an educative resource to help investors navigate through the volatile times that cryptocurrencies and equity markets are facing, overcoming the turbulence by researching and potentially taking advantage of possibilities to stay ahead of the bear market. Featuring a contemporary […]
By Satyaki Chakraborty French voters in their first round elections to the National Assembly of Parliamentarians on Sunday gave a clear signal to the incumbent President Emanuel Macron that the people are ready for change. The opening round saw Macron’s Ensemble coalition take a slight lead with 25.75 per cent of the popular vote as […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 June 2022 – Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners announced today that the firm, through a fund under its management, has completed the acquisition of greenfield land located in Saigon Hi-Tech Park, one of the key high-tech focused business parks in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This land will be further developed into a carrier neutral Tier […]
By K Raveendran Like all other investment instruments, weaker investor interest has affected gold prices as well. There has been bi-directional equity volatility in recent times, but this has failed to support gold prices as short term momentum waned. Gold fell 3.8 percent in May this year leaving it just under 2 percent higher on […]
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Industrial REITs have outperformed hotel, retail and office REITs over the last 10 years. Their growth is set to continue, according to Cushman & Wakefield. HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 June 2022 – Strong long-term drivers underpin a positive outlook for the Industrial sector in Asia despite uncertainty in the near-term macroeconomic climate. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in Asia demonstrated relative resilience through […]
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government might in all probability be able to bring the friendly Arab governments round to softening their initial response to what they consider to be the most sacrilegious remark by BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammed. The government has already intensified the firefighting, with special efforts being made to explain […]
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A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a […]
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By Sushil Kutty Finally, much to the delight of millions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not the Invincible! Little Qatar in the Gulf brought the Modi Government to its knees even as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Iran weighed in. Modi’s ‘Arabian Nights’ stands curtailed because Modi is no Xi Jinping. Also, the BJP’s ‘Naya […]
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By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir With France’s parliamentary elections scheduled on June 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in a stronger position than ever. Where other left-populist challengers around the West have struggled to build lasting organization, or even to repeat their initial electoral scores, his France Insoumise movement has established itself as a key force in national politics. […]
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Matein Khalid This is definitely not the best of all possible Panglossian macro worlds as the S&P 500 is 20% below its January peak, growth stocks continue to get crushed on Nasdaq while credit spreads have almost doubled and Brent crude is at $114. The Powell Fed waited too long to tighten with its myopic mantra of “inflation is transitory” and has pivoted to monetary tightening at […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After significant gains during the last quarter of 2021, the number of hours worked globally dropped in the first quarter of 2022, to 3.8 per cent below the pre-crisis benchmark in the fourth quarter of 2019. This is equivalent to a deficit of 112 million full-time jobs, which represents a significant […]
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By K R Sudhaman The global economy is facing unprecedented economic challenges driven by high inflation in practically all major economies and there are fears that this could lead to stagflation as recessionary trends are witnessed in advanced economies and slowing China. The question that is often asked now is Indian economy insulated from these […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty After the defeat in the French presidential polls, the socialists and the left-wingers of all hues in France arrived at a historic compromise on May 4 to form an alliance for the legislative elections in June this year to meet the dual challenge of both President Emmanuel Macron’s party and the powerful […]
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India and France on Wednesday called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities” in Ukraine, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi again stopping short of condemning Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. India, which imports much of its military hardware from Russia, has long walked a diplomatic tightrope between the West and Moscow – notably refusing to denounce […]
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