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Republican Party over immigration, a signature promise in Donald Trump's return to the White House. Unsurprisingly, the pressure point is over high-skilled immigration through the H-1B visa programme, which mainly draws in tech professionals from India. On Tuesday, the incoming president said that he had not changed his mind over the contentious issue, adding that the US needs competent and smart people for the country. Trump's core constituency has a strong nativist element that informed his approach to H-1B visas in his first term.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Russia halted natural gas flows to Europe via Ukraine, as Kyiv’s refusal to extend a pipeline deal brought an end to one of the last remaining energy links between Russia and what was once its biggest market. A gas transit deal using Soviet-era pipelines crisscrossing Ukraine expired at the end 2024.

It’s been a rough few years for Canadians looking to break into home ownership as unaffordability issues persist across the country.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : While sectors like financials and information technology (IT) are stealing the spotlight with bullish predictions, metals seem to be the market's underdog. Several fund managers either recommend steering clear of the sector or keeping exposure to a minimum.

President Xi Jinping underlined that no one could prevent China's 'reunification' with Taiwan, and affirmed that China will continue its «united front» efforts.

Trump. The benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab was up 23.31% in 2024, even with a recent speed bump, marking its second-straight year of gains exceeding 20%, lifted by megacap tech stocks and excitement over the business potential of artificial intelligence.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. America’s democratic institutions withstood, if only barely, Donald Trump’s first presidency, but will they do so again? During the 2024 election campaign, Trump promised mass deportations and detainment camps, reprisals against his political foes, a crackdown on “the enemy within," and a dramatic reduction of civil-service protections for federal workers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What could Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election mean for the American and global economies? In a December 2016 commentary titled The Trump Boom?, I argued that despite concerns about Trump’s personality and economic policies, it was entirely plausible that the United States could experience robust GDP growth during his presidency—albeit with a risk of higher inflation. For the “crime" of trying to be objective and suggesting that the US economy might perform well under Trump, I was condemned by fellow economists and commentators, especially progressives.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The New York Times famously prepares obituaries for notable individuals well in advance of their death. Now that President Joe Biden’s administration is about to expire, an elegy is in order for its economic achievements, failures, and missed opportunities.

US China trade war is intensifying as we speak, and this situation may deteriorate in the coming months, based on the upcoming US President Donald Trump's plans to impose as much as 25% tariffs on products manufactured in China.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The U.S. dollar is entering the new year on a high—and most signs point to more strength ahead.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—China isn’t satisfied with becoming the world’s dominant maker of electric vehicles. It wants the chips inside to be Chinese-made too.

Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the alleged caste atrocities committed against Dalits and Adivasis in the states including Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh where they are in power.

«And if you look at the expectation and the probabilities of further rate cuts in the US, there is only an expectation of another 25 basis points cut in the next six months,» says Punita Kumar Sinha, Pacific Paradigm Advisors. A very interesting point that you made there that a couple of these MNCs now are actually looking to delist in some of the other geographies and make way for the India entry. But this particular year has been quite robust in terms of the new IPOs entering into the markets and the new companies entering into the Indian markets. But what I wanted to know is that what is keeping FIIs back from investing in coming ahead and putting the money in the Indian markets? And what can actually be changed in the overall environment to get these FIIs back into the Indian markets? What is your take on that? Punita Kumar Sinha: Well, as I said, the perception was or has been created across the world is that India is an expensive market and the valuations in India are much higher than the rest of the world, which has kept some of the foreign investors a little bit on the sidelines.

India made it to the high table of clean energy superpowers with installed capacity crossing 200 gigawatts and projections of investment doubling to over USD 32 billion in 2025. According to the International Energy Agency, India's annual renewable capacity additions through 2030 are expected to increase more quickly than any other major economy, including China. It seeks India's capacity addition more than quadrupling from 15 GW in 2023 to 62 GW in 2030. By the end of 2024, its installed capacity touched 205 GW.