Contrary to popular notion, stock markets have repeatedly demonstrated since the 1929 Great Depression that their performance is not really linked to macroeconomic and business fundamentals

Realising digital ambitions of Jio Platforms and shifting focus of Reliance Industries' petrochemicals business from petrol and diesel production would be the next challenges Chairman Mukesh Ambani has to face

In this third part, focus is on the impact of neoliberalism: slowdown in growth, rise in inequality, frequent economic crises, and much more. It also looks at some of the corrective measures

This is first of a four-part series that seeks to unravel neoliberalism. In this part, focus is on some of the strategies of neoliberalism, from undermining the state to promoting free-market in running an economy

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries set to buy stake in Future Group companies: reportMukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries is close to finalising a deal with Kishore Biyani's Future Group for buying stake in some group companies of the latter. An announcement in this regard is expected to come next month, Bloomberg reported while quoting sources in the know. The deal is expected to provide a leg-up to Reliance Industries' e-commerce ambition.RIL becomes net-debt free months befor...

India's experience with free trade agreements has been bitter. Can the country learn from its mistakes?

How Mukesh Ambani is pivoting RIL from a petroleum company to a technology corporation

The 'Atma Nirbhar' economic stimulus package, to the tune of 10% of the GDP (Rs 21 lakh crores) cushions the economy to a certain extent, but certainly there is more than can and should be done until the structural reforms are implemented

Trump-Twitter spat: US President Donald Trump said social media platforms have unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, and alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences.

India's stagnant manufacturing sector needs land, labour and supply chain reforms urgently. stimulus measures fall short of expectations

Bharti Airtel shares climbed to a record Rs 598.8 last week after it posted a 14 per cent increase in user revenue in the quarter through March

ITC's acquisition of Sunrise is its biggest deal in the past two decades and shows company's readiness for inorganic growth to meet the turnover target of Rs 1 lakh crore for its non-cigarettes FMCG business by 2030

A day earlier a top Trump Administration diplomat backed India's move to strongly push back Chinese aggression into its territory by saying that the latter's pattern of constant attempt to shift the status quo has to be resisted

While pushing back on China, Trump has sometimes uttered contradictory statements. He has talked about having a great personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, yet has repeatedly denounced China for not doing more to stop the virus from spreading across the world

Centre has announced a variety of steps for small businesses, street vendors, farmers and poor migrants, but they have largely been either credit guarantee schemes or new fund creations to be shouldered by banks and financial institutions

Generic Aadhar, a start-up by Arjun Deshpande, follows a unique pharmacy-aggregator business model - it sources generic drugs directly from manufacturers and sells to pharmacies, eliminating 16-20 per cent wholesaler margin

What's playing out is a game of Sumo wrestling! Two heavy-weights with big ambition are on the mat. They're sizing up one another. One is at an obvious disadvantage

A global debt deal would help the developing nations to avoid looming debt disaster, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said

According to CII, immediate stimulus is required urgently to overcome the deep distress in the economy, while a medium-term plan is needed to be implemented over two years to deal with COVID-19 crisis

Corona in India update: Samshi Talab in Mehrauli including A-3 Lake view apartment, Gali number 1 band of Raj Nagar 2 in Dwarka, and house number 15 to 101 in Dayanand Vihar are the latest additions to the list of hotspots in Delhi; Maharashtra now has 6,427 COVID-19 cases