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HFCs: Home alone

'The burden of unsold inventory of over half a million housing units in the top 7 cities will worsen due to impact of the pandemic. Business process re-engineering will hold the key to the future'

Covid-19: Global pvt wealth takes a hit; India sees 20% dip in Jan-March

India sees 20 per cent drop in total wealth in January-March 2020 period; fares worse than global drop of 15 per cent

Markets, economy take divergent paths amid Covid-19 uncertainties

The latest rebound in the market has come on the back of a sharp 40 per cent correction in the preceding one-month period with valuations for most stocks plunging to multi-year lows

Is this a good time to invest in gold bonds? Yes, but do it wisely

The advantages are plenty. There are no hassles such as purity checks, making charges, and locker charges

Covid-19 crisis: Mamata Banerjee lashes out at govt over testing kits

Mamata claimed that so far, 7,037 Viral Transport Medium (VTM) tests have been conducted which require 14,074 test kits. Each VTM test requires two test kits

ACC's strong operating performance lifts sentiment amid Covid-19 lockdown

Despite the lockdown impacting volumes, lower costs drove earnings and beat expectations

Covid-19: Bengaluru, Delhi better at social distancing than global cities

Near, a location-based data intelligence platform based out of Singapore, analysed the density and mobility across cities to understand the vulnerability of a city to the spread of Covid-19.

Covid-19: Life insurers to bite short-term bullet for future growth

Covid-19 is expected to result in improved awareness and importance about life insurance as a risk cover

Sebi plans to ease fundraising norms for listed stressed companies

Currently, the pricing covers a period of 26 weeks or more for frequently traded shares

Brokerages drag MCX to HC over negative price settlement of crude

The three commodity brokers that have filed separate petitions against MCX and Sebi in include Motilal Oswal Financial Services, PCS Securities, and Religare

Read from home

One should worry, of course, about what this is doing to one small business sector in particular that was already under stress: Bookshops

The fiscal response challenge

In terms of policy response, governments and central banks are intervening aggressively in the advanced economies

RBI asks banks to continue with incentives on crop loans, govt to foot bill

Many farmers couldn't visit banks to pay dues on short-term crop loans in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions on movement of people

At war with the virus

The military should supplement its arsenal with dual-use assets that would create capabilities for handling situations like Covid

ICMR asks states to use rapid test only for surveillance, not diagnosis

On Tuesday, it had asked states to stop using the kits for two days after receiving complaints of poor detection and faulty results

33 test positive for coronavirus in Tamil Nadu; 27 patients recover

The State Health Department said that 27 Covid-19 patients were discharged on Wednesday taking the total number of persons who recovered to 662 in the state

The oil glut

The crash in futures may not benefit India

Coronavirus spoils the show for media and entertainment business

The industry is at the cusp of a transformation, according to an EY report that came out in the early weeks of the Covid-19 onslaught

Companies shift focus on reskilling workforce for post-Covid world

With job losses and redundancies looming large, firms have taken to the idea of reskilling their workforce with gusto

Coronavirus spread to weigh on domestic ports and logistics sectors

At present, sectors like warehousing, trucking, and last-mile delivery, are facing several challenges. Labour shortage has turned out to be the biggest one, across segments.