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Ripple effect: What Russia's invasion of Ukraine means for global finance

Russian assault on Ukraine has intensified uncertainty in the world economy, to condemn Putin's war, western leaders announced some sanctions to target Russian financial institutions individuals

White House warns of a global financial crisis on debt default: Report

The potential for global recession could be worse than the 2008 GFC : Report

US market exceptionalism

A bet on US outperformance is a bet on tech, which is near the end of its own hype cycle

The coming long spell of demand drought

Looks like India's demand curve has shifted downwards for a couple of years at least, writes Shailesh Dobhal

Benchmark indices end FY21 with a gain of 70%, most since 2009-10

The rebound, both in FY10 and FY21, followed a painful period for the market and has been underp­inned by aggressive stimulus measures by global central banks

RBI's policy responses to support economy weren't very impactful: Study

At best, the RBI stopped a sharp spike such as the one witnessed after the global financial crisis

Job losses from virus four times as bad as 2009 global financial crisis: UN

The pandemic severely disrupted the global economy

No high inflation or fiscal crisis in the US but …

Monetary base issued by the Fed had jumped from less than $1 trn before the GFC to more than $3 trn by early 2020 and then to about $5 trn by end of the year. But inflation has hardly gone up. Why?

HDFC Bank bad loan ratio may widen to decade high, says CEO-designate

The bad-loan ratio might widen to 1.4% to 2%, which will be close to the highest level since the global financial crisis, Sashidhar Jagdishan said in a conference call with analysts on Friday

Markets at inflexion point; analysts bullish on consumer, telecom, pharma

The recovery seen in the markets from their March 2020 lows has been quite sharp, with the S&P BSE Sensex and the Nifty50 indices gaining 27.61 per cent and 27.18 per cent, respectively since then

IMF needs to maintain global financial stability amid Covid-19: Sitharaman

Sitharaman, in her intervention, outlined various measures taken by India to deal with the health emergency

Coronavirus-induced recession way worse than 2008 financial crisis: IMF

More than 1 million people worldwide have been infected with Covid-19

Here's why 100-ounce gold bar is attracting buyers despite volatile price

Not only are prices swinging in an erratic fashion - surging one moment and crashing the next - that is undermining the metal's vaunted status as a haven in times of crisis

This isn't an automatic buying opportunity: Jan Lambregts, Hugo Erken

"In recent years, we have grown used to every wobbly being met by government measures and this time around is no different"

Stock market rout: Is now the time to bottom fish large-cap stocks?

Over half the CNX100 stocks still expensive; Nifty, too, in higher valuation zone compared to 2008-09

Global cooperation can help tackle climate change, financial crisis: Maskin

However, he added that global collaboration will not be easy as more and more nations turn inward-looking

Indian consumers remain confident despite economic slowdown: Nielsen

Country tops consumer confidence index in April-June; economists say more pain ahead

A decade after Lehman, investors hunt for clues to next financial crisis

China, emerging markets and corporate debt among concerns

Lehman collapse: Crisis-struck decade marks exit of 227 stocks from BSE500

Previous periods of market correction for Indian stocks - the Harshad Mehta scam in 1992, the Dot-Com bubble in 2000 and from then till the Lehman debacle - had seen less than 100 exiting the BSE 500

How long-run economic prospects fell sharply after the great recession

One possible story about the way the Great Shortfall followed the Great Recession is that post hoc wasn't propter hoc