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05.02 / 02:15

markets UPS Gap Strategy economy Align stage High-level committee on banking: What it should focus on to strengthen India’s financial system

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the formation of a “high-level committee" on banking in her budget speech for 2026-27. While she offered no details, the FM did say that this panel would be tasked with reviewing the banking sector and aligning it with India’s next phase of growth.

05.02 / 01:29

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sees a greater threat to the economy from elevated inflation than from a weakening labor market, a stance that suggests she could be skeptical of supporting a return to rate cuts.

05.02 / 01:29

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For much of the past 20 years emerging markets (EMs) have seemed doomed never to emerge. The world’s up-and-coming economies were supposed to offer daredevil investors a shot at outsize returns: the chance to profit from the superior growth of middle-income countries as they caught up with rich ones.

04.02 / 10:59

markets Provident Gap economy Enterprise Why India needs smarter finance: It’s not just about enlarging the country’s financial sector

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s budget for 2026-27 signals a growing recognition that its financial challenge is no longer one of scale alone, but of structure and effectiveness. Measures such as the introduction of a market-making framework for corporate bonds, the development of total return swaps and bond-index derivatives, incentives for large municipal bond issuances and the creation of mechanisms such as the Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund and real estate investment trusts (REITs) linked to central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) point to an attempt to deepen long-term, market-based finance and improve risk distribution beyond banks.

04.02 / 08:55

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chapter 10 of India’s Economic Survey 2025-26 provides a comprehensive summary of New Delhi’s climate and related initiatives.

04.02 / 03:35

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The rise of Indian single malts is showing up on distillers’ balance sheets, and for India’s oldest whisky maker Amrut Distilleries, premium variants are fast becoming the engine of growth, rather than a niche bet. The distiller says it now sells nearly a quarter of all Indian single malt whisky consumed domestically, giving premium whiskies an outsized role in its growth strategy.

04.02 / 02:09

markets UPS Art economy Trade Art of the India-US trade deal’s revival: The end of a rift between the two partners could spell gains all around

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is plainly good news the US has lowered its import duty on Indian goods from 50%, a truly punitive rate, to 18%. A trade deal is expected to be sewn up anytime now.

04.02 / 01:51

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared at Davos that middle powers should deepen their economic ties to navigate the era of great-power politics, India was already showing how it was done. After President Trump imposed 50% tariffs on India’s exports to the U.S., among the highest in the world last year, New Delhi powered ahead on trade deals with other economies, strengthening its hand in negotiations with the U.S.

03.02 / 10:53

markets UPS Provident Digital economy Sustainability Research Budget: It combines strategic ambition with fiscal discipline to set India up for a sustainable growth trajectory

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Markets don’t always get it right, especially not immediately. India’s 2026-27 budget sparked an initial selloff, with investors obsessing over the government’s elevated headline borrowing.

02.02 / 12:23

markets COST Manufacturing Strategy economy Coherent Features Ficci director general: The budget isn’t a list of announcements but a coherent plan to strengthen India’s economy

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The budget reaffirms a defining feature of India’s economic strategy over the past decade: growth anchored in reform, investment and macroeconomic credibility. Rather than announcing isolated measures, it presents a coherent growth compact built on multiple pillars to strengthen its foundations while adapting to a complex global environment.

02.02 / 10:49

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s consumer recovery has been slower and more uneven than policymakers hoped, but one part of the economy is moving fast anyway: artificial intelligence. As demand growth falters and traditional stimulus offers only limited lift, China’s biggest consumer platforms are leaning into AI not as a moonshot, but as a practical tool to stabilize margins, reshape competition, and extract more value from each transaction.

02.02 / 07:57

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Universal Music India has made a comeback to Bollywood after recent acquisitions and partnerships, while retaining its focus on non-film music.

02.02 / 07:57

JPMorgan Platform economy show Videos Relationships International How a Silicon Valley startup became a crypto lifeline for Venezuela

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The founders of fintech startup Kontigo eagerly embraced the Silicon Valley playbook: packing the company into a San Francisco home for a TikTok-ready hackathon; peppering their pitches with buzzwords about building a “neobank for Latinos"; and making outlandish claims about pioneering a Martian economy. The performance helped the tiny, boisterous cryptocurrency startup land a coveted slot in the prestigious incubator Y Combinator and, in December, raise more than $20 million from big-name Silicon Valley investors, including Coinbase’s venture fund.

02.02 / 04:15

UPS Target Analysis economy Enterprise trends track The only Budget analysis you'll need: The government's tight fiscal math, explained in 8 charts

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If 2025 was about putting money in the hands of the common people through large-scale and much-celebrated cuts in both direct and indirect taxes, the new year appears to be about its after-effects—on the government’s fiscal math, not so much on consumption-led growth wheels. Several figures point towards a lack of optimism in the economy.

02.02 / 02:29

COST UPS Target economy Trade testing India’s budget doubles down on a tried and tested formula—with debt reduction as a distant target

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India kept calm and carried on this fiscal year, with a GST spur for retail offtake, an urgency for foreign trade deals and a few tariff tweaks for factory-cost relief making up the bulk of our response to trade adversity. That spirit prevails in India’s budget for 2026-27 too.

02.02 / 02:29

markets UPS FIVE economy President show country An investor’s guide to the boom (and bust) in gold and silver

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What if, and bear with me here, the wild gyrations in gold and silver prices are actually telling us something? There are three plausible messages from the rise in gold prices. I’m not convinced that any of them provide a full explanation for what’s going on.

02.02 / 00:47

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The macroeconomic numbers for India’s economy would be the envy of others. Quarterly growth has been showing steady upward momentum and inflation is ruling at remarkably low levels.

02.02 / 00:47

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Few questions are as revealing today as how the world’s two largest economies—the US and China—differ in their economic approaches. In Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (2025), Dan Wang offers a useful lens.

01.02 / 14:23

Provident Digital Manufacturing economy Sustainability Food shock Sachchidanand Shukla: A well-formulated budget that pays India’s future due consideration

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stakes couldn’t be higher for Union Budget 2026-27. Global shocks and domestic frailties demanded a stroke of fiscal artistry—prudence on the fiscal path fused with audacious growth bets and prioritization of the medium term over the short term.

01.02 / 13:09

Waters economy Trade cover reports Headlines Union budget: Why the real impact on India’s economy lies beyond the headlines

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The date of 1 February for the announcement of the Union budget precedes by a month the release of the advance estimate of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) based on three quarters, which this year will mark the start of a new GDP series with 2022-23 as its base year, replacing the old series based on 2011-12. The new series will change the sectoral weights, and with that, the estimates of aggregate real growth for the first two quarters.

01.02 / 10:59

UPS Digital CEO economy Experts Schools Colleges Budget aims to boost India's animation, content creation with ₹250-crore investment

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s animation, visual effects, gaming and comics (AVGC) ecosystem is set for a significant boost after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed a ₹250-crore allocation to expand formal talent development across schools and colleges, signalling a push to institutionalize the country’s fast-growing creator economy.

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