With his experience at two of the largest Wall Street banks, David Martin Darst, a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, is well placed to explain the crisis in the US financial markets (Darst was also with Goldman Sachs). One of his recent works, The little book that saves your assets, has been acclaimed as an encyclopedia on asset allocation strategies. On a recent visit to India, Darst met BT’s Rachna Monga.

India’s foreign policy—which has mostly been a litany of floundering initiatives as a result of putting all its eggs in one basket—finally managed to bag itself some brownie points following the successful conclusion of the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement.

$286 billion: India’s current foreign exchange reserves, which are much above optimal levels. Forex accumulation has reduced external vulnerabilities and decreased the risk of financial contagion, according to a recent IMF study

As efforts begin to salvage a deal from the Doha Round of WTO trade talks, experts say the first task is to break the deadlock around farm safeguards that were the stumbling block in the latest, unsuccessful round of negotiations in Geneva recently.

An impassioned, but one-sided, harangue on what’s wrong with the food system.

A resurgent India is slowly, but surely, making its presence felt in global trade. Since 2004, its share in world trade has gone up significantly.

An India that's home to 30 of Fortune 100 companies, the world’s largest pool of technically-trained manpower, and Nobel Prize winners in arts, science and literature? That’s management guru C.K. Prahalad’s dream for India@75, and he’s got a plan how to get there. A Business Today exclusive.

The world's largest bank is gasping for breath. Will it now cut back operations globally to put its house back in order, or will it expand in India and China to offset its losses elsewhere?

If you are one of India’s middle class consumers, chances are you are beginning to tighten your pursestrings. After all, we’ve gone from ‘India Unstoppable’ to ‘India Plummeting’ in just a few months.

Away from the arclights, Wipro’s Consumer Care & Lighting division is expanding its market share and challenging the established players in the business. K.R. Balasubramanyam reports.

Emerging markets are changing the competitive environment of the world, China, India and Russia are the highest rated markets in the first Grant Thornton IBR Emerging Markets Index, based on a weighted calculation of key indicators such as GDP, population size, international trade and growth projections.

The sheer amount of manufacturing activity taking place in small towns of India is mindboggling. Shops are being set up at breakneck speed and there is massive expansion. Where are these clusters located, and can they really deliver on their promise? Here is what Business Today discovered.

The sticking point remains the same as before—the new “discussion text” released last week on trade in agricultural and industrial products requires developing countries to grant considerable access to their domestic market in order to draw minuscule concessions from the rich countries.

Options and futures can help you ride out the market’s volatility—and also profit from it.

A stronger rupee is hurting exports and it may hurt some more. But total exports may still rise by 25-30 per cent this year.

These are extraordinary times, not just for India but the whole world. At no time before in world history has inflation and economic downturn combined to create a “caught-between-ice-and-fire” situation. In India, rising inflation coupled with a moderating economy does signal a cyclical slowdown, but the country’s long-term growth story is still intact. An analysis by BT's Shalini S. Dagar.

Africa is turning out to be a services market for India.

A hefty stock price climb and revenue upturn later, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has been handed a massive pay hike. In her first full year in charge, the Chennai-born Nooyi, 53, got paid $14.74 million, more than double the $6.3 million she earned in 2006 as PepsiCo’s CFO.

Like it is for many other global CEOs, India is an important destination for Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive of London-based Standard Chartered Bank. But Sands, 46, a former McKinsey consultant, has a special connection with the country: His mother, Susan, was born and educated in India.

Will multiple roadblocks slow the growth of booming BPO market?