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Global Economy To Weaken In Coming Year But Economists Confident Of India Growth: WEF

Most economists expect the global economy to weaken in the coming year amid political and financial volatility, but a large majority of over 90 per cent are confident of moderate or strong growth in South Asia, notably India, a survey showed ...

US Economy Grew At Weak 1.1 Pc Rate In Q1 In Sign Of Slowdown

The US economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1 per cent annual pace as higher interest rates hammered the housing market and businesses reduced their inventories. Thursday's estimate from the Commerce Department showed that the nation's ...

SBI Economists Expect 'RBI' To Hit Pause Button On Interest Rate Hike

Economists at SBI on Monday said they expect the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to hit the pause button on interest rate hike at its upcoming monetary policy review this week. The central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the six-member rate ...

Public, Pvt Sector Need To Think Out Of Box, To Seize Global Opportunities: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said both public and private sectors need to leverage synergies and think out of the box to seize opportunities arising as a result of the emerging global environment. While interacting with noted economists and experts ...

PM To Hold Pre-Budget Meeting, With Economists, Experts

Ahead of the Union Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet economists and sectoral experts at NITI Aayog on Friday to discuss the state of the economy and measures to accelerate growth which is estimated to drop to 7 per cent, ...

Nov Inflation Print Provides Impetus, To End Rate Hike Cycle: SBI Economists

The November inflation print of 5.88 per cent provides impetus to end the rate hike cycle, economists at the country's largest lender SBI said on Monday. This came hours after official data showed that consumer price index (CPI) based inflation cooled ...

Ahead Of Budget, Economists Demand Increase, In Social Security Pension And Maternity Benefits

Ahead of the Union Budget 2023-24, 51 eminent economists have written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and demanded an increase in social security pensions and an adequate provision for maternity benefits. The signatory of the letter includes Jean Drèze (honorary professor, ...

3 US-Based Economists Given Nobel Prize, For Work On Banks

This year's Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to three U.S.-based economists "for research on banks and financial crises." The award to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig was announced Monday by the Nobel panel ...

Powell's Stark Message: Inflation Fight May, Cause Recession

The Federal Reserve delivered its bluntest reckoning on Wednesday of what it will take to finally tame painfully high inflation: Slower growth, higher unemployment and potentially a recession. Speaking at a news conference, Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged what many economists have ...

As recession Fears Grow, Strong, US Hiring Is Likely Slowing

The American job market has defied raging inflation, rising interest rates, growing recession fears. Month after month, US employers just kept adding hundreds of thousands of workers, often beating forecasters' expectations. But now economists worry that signs of weakness are starting ...

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