Globally, financial markets remain unsettled and currencies are volatile as 2003 runs out, mainly due to anticipation of a decision by US Federal...

He would build on this improving environment without letting guard on the less comforting inflationary pressures.A general assumption, given Rajan’s...

Chidambaram patiently explained at a think-tank, the ‘micro-economic fundamentals’ at work in India (demographics, international economic integration,...

The shutdown was triggered by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives on October 1 after their repeated attempts to de-fund the...

For the world’s finance ministers gathered in Washington to tone up the global economy’s recovery, it was a bizarre spectacle of the Federal...

Financial markets around the world are in a state of alarm over the ongoing developments in the US Congress — failure of politics with a divided...

The big events were firstly, a dramatic telephone call by President Obama to President Rouhani of Iran (the first contact at the highest level since...

Global financial markets rallied to new highs on September 18, with investors surprised by the Federal Reserve’s decision to defer a widely expected...

Even as political parties, national and regional, are biding their time for designing electoral strategies, with no immediate dissolution of Lok Sabha...

Government is far from ready to take on what it needs to bring the highly volatile rupee to a manageable level, even if need be through an exchange...

Raghuram Rajan, taking over as Governor of RBI on 4 September, has sought to ring a note of cheer for an economy in distress, committing himself to...

Unless the reforms aimed at rebalancing growth of the economy to which the new leadership is committed are carried out in accelerated fashion, China...