ECONOMY


There are two types of bear markets. The first is a shallow one. A sharp fall initially, but then the subsequent selloffs are less intensive. Everything gets resolved in four to five months. For almost a decade, India and the rest of the world have got used to this kind of a bear market. The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 April 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday kept key interest rates unchanged, choosing caution amid global uncertainty triggered by the West Asia conflict, even as a tentative ceasefire between the United States and Iran raised hopes of easing crude oil prices and stabilising...

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Dr Bhamy V Shenoy 03 April 2026
The oil shock triggered by the US-Israel war against Iran—impacting almost every country except Russia—is among the most severe in modern history. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, global oil markets have held up reasonably well so far.   Even after a month of conflict, oil prices have risen by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 April 2026
Global financial markets came under pressure on Thursday, with equities sliding across Asia and oil prices surging more than 4%, after president Donald Trump signalled that the US would intensify military action against Iran over the next few weeks.   Investor sentiment weakened sharply after...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2026
States have utilised just over half of their combined capital expenditure (capex) budgets in the first 10 months of FY25–26, pointing to a slower pace of public investment at the sub-national level compared with the Union government.   An analysis of monthly accounts for 23 states released by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2026
In a shocking development that raises serious questions about enforcement practices in India’s fast-growing digital finance ecosystem, Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, co-founders of CoinDCX, were taken into police custody in connection with a fraud complaint linked to a fake website...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2026
In a move that closes one of Indian quick-service restaurant (QSR) history's instructive chapters, Jubilant FoodWorks has announced it will not renew its agreement with US-based Dunkin' to develop and operate stores in the country after the pact expires on 31 December 2026. The decision,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2026
The Press Council of India (PCI) has issued a detailed advisory to the print media, urging strict adherence to guidelines on election reporting and the norms of journalistic conduct during upcoming Assembly elections and by-elections across several states.   In its press release dated 27...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2026
In a significant ruling in the coal block allocation cases, a special court in Delhi has convicted former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda and businessman Manoj Kumar Jayaswal in connection with irregularities in the allocation of the Bander coal block in Maharashtra, while...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2026
The Union government has defended the existing cap on compensation for loss of valuables kept in bank lockers, stating in Parliament that banks neither assess nor have knowledge of the contents stored by customers, making higher or differential compensation frameworks...

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KBS Sidhu 30 March 2026
When your NRE account application becomes geopolitical drama In what may be the most improbable endorsement in modern banking history, HDFC Bank Ltd, India’s largest private-sector bank, has found itself with an involuntary international brand ambassador of unusual distinction: Kash Patel,...

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The US-Israel war on Iran has entered the fourth week and the Indian benchmark indices are down by 8%. The first-order effects of the war are familiar to all of us, with the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed. Of India’s imports, roughly 54% of crude, 60% of LNG (liquefied natural gas) and as...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
A new research paper has reignited debate over the accuracy of India’s economic statistics, suggesting that official data may have mis-estimated the country’s growth trajectory over the past two decades. The study, published in March by economists Abhishek Anand, Josh Felman and Arvind...

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A beguiling theory is doing the rounds in India’s financial circles: that the country’s stock market has become unusually attractive for foreign investors. If only the billion-dollar global funds with the best of talent wised up, they could grow their investments eight times in dollar terms...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 March 2026
A commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) crisis triggered by the West Asia conflict is forcing restaurant shutdowns across Indian cities, prompting the government to constitute a panel of oil marketing company (OMC) executives to manage supplies to the hospitality sector, while simultaneously...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 February 2026
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC’s) Budget for FY26-27 continues its strong emphasis on capital expenditure and large infrastructure projects, following a similar pattern in FY25-26. With the total outlay rising to ₹80,952.56 crore in FY26-27 from ₹74,427.41 crore in FY25-26,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 February 2026
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed a budget of ₹80,952.56 crore for 2026-27, marking an increase of 8.77% over the 2025-26 Budget estimate (BE) of ₹74,427.41 crore. While the overall increase is moderate, the revenue projections underlying the Budget show a sharper rise,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 February 2026
Union finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman has delivered a clear warning to banks against the mis-selling of financial products, stating that such practices amount to an 'offence' and will not be tolerated.   Speaking at the post-Budget press conference after her meeting with the central...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2026
The Bombay High Court on 23 February 2026 has set aside an earlier interim order that had restrained three public sector banks (PSBs) from proceeding with fraud classification actions against industrialist Anil Ambani.   In December 2025, a single-judge bench of the Bombay High Court granted...

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Business Standard dated 19th February carries a report on the accomplishment of the top-50 Indian corporations on the key sustainability development goals (SDGs), measured on a scale of 100.   Hindustan Unilever (HUL) tops the list with 53.9 points, reflecting a strong performance across key...

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