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The latest US inflation report, showing that price increases slowed in October, suggests that the economy just might get the ‘immaculate disinflation’ that everyone is hoping for: Inflation will fall to its pre-pandemic levels and remain there, and the US will avoid a recession. Allow me to make the pessimist’s case that we’re not out of the woods yet. The sunnier view does have a lot going for it.

Richard Liu, MD-Institutional Equities Research, JM Financial Institutional Securities, says “the way a lot of businesses are going about doing their business planning is that the endeavour is actually to grow faster than the GDP of the country. There are many categories of consumption, which are able to do that. If you are able to do that sustainably and profitably, that is where you have the winners.” Overall, from the investor's point of view, where does the interest lie and what is the view on India right now? The mood is bullish.

Indian bonds this year are poised to reach the highest since 2017, as investors lap up local debt before the nation’s entry into global indexes. Inflows to fixed income, including corporate debt, have reached nearly $6 billion thus far in 2023, with this month alone accounting for about a quarter of the flows, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Monthly inflows to the nation’s government bonds are set for their highest since April 2020, the longest streak since the fully-accessible route index-eligible category was introduced. While JPMorgan’s decision in September to add India to its emerging market gauge is prompting investors to boost their holdings of local bonds, robust growth in company earnings and the economy has driven foreign inflows to nation’s equities. Global funds have bought more than $12 billion of shares this year, the most in emerging Asia.

international workforce would be an Indian. The MEA secretary addressed the third edition of the Spain-India Forum in New Delhi on Wednesday. Underscoring the migration mobility agreement, he said, «Within a decade or so, every third or every second youth out of ten in the international workforce would be an Indian. So here what I'm directly referring to is the migration mobility agreement, which we are struggling for the Spanish government to consider.» India has signed the migration mobility agreement with Portugal, the UK, Germany, Italy and Austria. Furthermore, Verma said, «Austria is supposed to be one of the most difficult countries to deal with on migration issues. So if we can do it with several other countries, I think it's Spain.

The exchange rate is top of mind for millions of Argentines coping with triple-digit inflation

Best Buy Co. posted stronger-than-expected profits, but reported a deeper-than-expected drop in revenue for the fiscal third quarter as shoppers continue to pull back on buying gadgets in an uncertain economy

Britain’s Conservative government will try to win favor with voters by cutting taxes but avoiding worsening inflation in a budget statement

Britain’s top court has ruled that riders for one of the country’s biggest meal delivery companies don’t have collective bargaining rights because they aren’t employees

Wall Street’s rally ran out of momentum, and stocks drifted lower a day after hitting their highest level since the start of August

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, suggested that the economy appears to be on what he calls the “golden path,” another term for what economists often term a “soft landing,” in which the Fed would curb inflation without ...

AA flight attendants seek permission to strike. Southwest pilots could be next.

Argentina’s president-elect has given the first signals of how he plans to shake up South America’s second-largest economy

The year is drawing to a close and the stock market is at the crossroads. On on side uncertainties are looming, but on the other unbridled optimism is driving investors' confidence. ETMutualFunds spoke to Rahul Singh, CIO — Equities, Tata Mutual Fund, to make sense of what is happening in the market.

₹16,500 crore in October. The asset management reality is that FIIs have to park their and their clients’ monies somewhere amidst the prolonged global economic slowdown. The Indian economy and its future potential is being bet on.

Carbon-free electricity has never been more plentiful. Wind and solar power have taken off over the past two decades, faster than experts ever expected.

stock market reacted with optimism Tuesday to the resounding election win by libertarian Javier Milei, despite the country being gripped by uncertainty over what changes the self-described «anarcho-capitalist» will bring. Milei, a 53-year-old economist who has vowed to scrap multiple government departments and sometimes campaigned by waving a chainsaw from the stage, trounced Argentina's long-dominant Peronist coalition as voters punished the government for decades of economic decline. Latin America's third-biggest economy is creaking under annual inflation of 143 percent. Monday, the day after the election, was a public holiday in Argentina, delaying the market reaction.

Russia’s pivot to the Global South, Western, South and Central Asia is strategic and long-term. While Moscow’s partnership with New Delhi has deep mental and cultural roots, Russia-China ties does not have dimension of a military alliance, Prof. Alexander Dynkin, President of IMEMO (Russia’s top think tank) & leading economist tells ET’s Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury ahead of Primakov Readings (Russia’s premier foreign policy forum) in Moscow on October 27-28.

An economic disruptor has won Argentina’s presidency. Javier Milei, who describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist", intends to impose a radical agenda. He wants to reduce ministries from 18 to eight, crunch public spending from about 38% to 23% of GDP, privatize state enterprises, and get rid of many levies and regulatory controls.

₹16,000 crore to markets watchdog Sebi to refund investors. Now with the death of its founder Subrata Roy, the Centre seems to be weighing the option of transferring the corpus to the Consolidated Fund of India. A report in The Economic Times on Monday said that the government was looking at the legality of transferring the funds to the consolidated fund with few investors coming forward to claim money even after a decade.

BEIJING — U.S. President Joe Biden's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week has set a bottom line in the relationship which reduces uncertainty for businesses, analysts said.

Investing.com – Federal Reserve policymakers were in support of keeping rates at restrictive levels for «some time» until inflation is clearly on a downward path, though stopped short of suggesting rate cuts were on the horizon anytime soon, according to the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Oct. 31-Nov. 1 meeting released Tuesday.