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Mint Quick Edit | Mutual fund investor interest in equities revived last month: Will the Gulf war hurt it?

New Delhi, March 11 -- February data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India signals a rise in equity appetite. Funds investing in them saw an 8% bump-up in inflows from January to Rs.25,977 cro... Read More


As oil soars and stocks slide, investors in India should focus on equity yields over capital gains

New Delhi, March 10 -- After nine days of denial, the hard reality of an oil shock seems to have hit home. In the second week of joint US-Israel attacks on Iran, crude oil prices have leapt into three... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | China's latest retail inflation number may be a relief but deflation still haunts its economy

New Delhi, March 10 -- China is just managing to keep retail deflation at bay. Official data for February released on Monday showed that its consumer price index rose 1.3% from a year earlier. In Janu... Read More


Deploy municipal bonds to give urban India the makeover it needs-Here's how to attract investors

New Delhi, March 9 -- Urbanization and economic development. One mirrors the other. Urban India accounts for over 63% of GDP, with this share expected to rise to 75% by 2030, and more than 600 million... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | End of Iran's regime? Why prediction markets generate both information and anxiety

New Delhi, March 9 -- Global prediction markets have evoked much interest after the Iran war broke out. On Polymarket, a platform for stablecoin bets on various outcomes, "Will the Iranian regime fall... Read More


US-Israel's Iran War blitz: Has China decided to hide its strength and bide its time?

New Delhi, March 6 -- This century's big story was supposed to be the rise of China amid a scramble by the US to secure a second 'American century,' as the 20th was branded. Of late, though, Beijing's... Read More


Not overly generous: Why a PF payout rate of 8.25% is worthy of celebration-and justified

New Delhi, March 4 -- On a day when all newspapers, including business dailies, had little else but war news and its unsettling impact on oil prices, markets, exports, the economy and so on, news repo... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | War reverberations from West Asia: Why RBI may need to heighten its rupee vigil

New Delhi, March 4 -- Today's India is a far cry from 1991's, when we were so dollar-starved that a Gulf war forced a reckoning on economic policy. Our kitty of foreign exchange is large. Yet, hostili... Read More


War in West Asia: The US-Israeli attack on Iran puts more than oil prices on India's radar of risks to track

New Delhi, March 3 -- The American-Israeli attack on Iran raises a number of vital questions for India and the rest of the world, delving into which is necessary to make the best of a bad situation. T... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | PMI data's told-you-so moment: It has been tracking a factory resurgence

New Delhi, March 3 -- India's manufacturing sector is doing better than we thought, as the Union statistics ministry's revised GDP estimates showed last week. The purchasing managers index (PMI) could... Read More