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India readies various strategies to tackle 'US first' trade policy

The government is closely assessing Trump's election speeches and actions during his previous tenure, the official told Business Standard

RBI likely to hold rates for 11th straight time: Business Standard poll

May cut cash reserve ratio, lower growth and inflation projections

Sensible trade policy key to tackling climate change on a global scale

A key agreement at Baku was on establishing high integrity carbon markets, following a breakthrough on establishing standards for a centralised international carbon market

Two stock markets in one: An unexplained anomaly not seen before

Bank credit is not growing because companies are still focused on deleveraging their balance sheets, while higher interest cost is squeezing the net interest margins of banks

Govt likely to double EPF monthly-wage cap to Rs 30,000 per month

Plans afoot to bring ceiling under ESIC on a par with EPF

Sharp slowdown: Solutions will need to go beyond interest rate cuts

Some economists believe that a pickup in government capital expenditure will help accelerate growth

Unintended consequence: The poor face the brunt of pollution control

Construction bans are becoming the norm each winter, it is incumbent on state authorities to design a mechanism to compensate temporarily unemployed workers

Time for AI in education: A transformative revolution akin to printing era

Human-conversation mode, I guess, is one key reason we all run to ChatGPT and similar AI tools often

'Har Ghar Lakhpati': State Bank of India's new mantra for deposit accretion

Country's largest lender ups the ante for resources with two new schemes set to launch this month

During downturns quality stocks truly survive, thrive: Saahil Murarka

He tells that it may not be the wrong strategy to invest when the markets are at a high

Fifth time's the charm: Mutual fund largecap cutoff ready for a 17% stretch

The catch gets bigger - largecap and midcap thresholds to expand in January

Raymond Realty may get listed in Q2 FY26, says CEO Harmohan Sahni

Raymond Realty CEO Harmohan Sahni said the firm had six projects with three more estimated to be launched next year

Street signs: New blood in derivatives market, new expiry clock is ticking

India's leading bourse, the National Stock Exchange, has announced changes to the 'expiry day' for its index derivatives contracts

Patience, luck key to finding cos to invest in: Ervin Tu, Ashutosh Sharma

Ervin Tu and Ashutosh Sharma of Prosus talk about their strategies for India and beyond

Highrise hopes: Setting realty's H2 revival in stone, brick by brick

A solid launch pipeline lays the groundwork to close the cracks of H1FY25

Statsguru: Robust taxes ease burden of freebies on state governments

Often criticised as "revdi culture", these promises have become central to political manifestos across parties, as seen even in the recent Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections

In good position to deleverage from next year: Tata Steel's Chatterjee

The steel industry is clearly in a down-cycle

Monetary policy: RBI faces Hobson's choice on policy rate cut decision

This policy comes at a time when growth is slowing, inflation is still pretty high, and the rupee has started losing value against the dollar

SFBs: The canter on a chequered terrain as deposit challenges loom

All said, growth prospects for SFBs remain buoyant, anchored by comfortable capitalisation and ever-increasing presence in underpenetrated markets

UN climate summit in Baku leaves the developing world with crumbs

Unusually for a UN climate summit, COP29 was mainly about climate finance, and yet the finance mandarins were missing