Two months ago, on February 12, Rahul Bajaj passed into the ages.‘Rahul inspired Indian industry with an ethos, an ethos of being more confident, more independent, more thorough, more competitive, more generous, more public-spirited, and more national and more international all at once,’ remembers Naushad Forbes. In my book, The […]

In addition to income and property taxes, Americans also pay state and local sales taxes. Sales taxes account for a large share of the levies that Americans pay each year.  To determine the states with the highest and lowest sales tax rates, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on sales tax […]

There are a number of “best movies” lists. The most famous is probably the American Film Institute’s “100 Years–100 Movies”. The online movie and TV review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a “100 Best,” too. IMDb, the online movie database owned by Amazon, ups the ante with a “250 Best.” The […]

Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) announced Monday that Health Canada has approved an expanded indication of GARDASIL9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant) for the prevention of oropharyngeal and other head and neck cancers in individuals 9 through 45 years of age. The company noted that GARDASIL 9 has been approved […]

Billionaire Elon Musk has always been unpredictable, and once again, he delivered a surprise. In about face, just days after Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted that Musk had joined Twitter’s board of directors, Agrawal tweeted Sunday night that Must won’t be joining the board of the social media platform after […]

Supply chain constraints will keep plaguing automobile companies even though demand significantly improved resulting in a 13 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase in sales in financial year 2021-22 (FY22). Executives at auto firms fear that the Russia-Ukraine war will further dent the sector’s prospects of recovery as supply chains face […]

‘Large-caps are better placed to withstand the impact of higher input cost inflation, rising rates and withdrawal of excess global liquidity.’ Gautam Duggad, head of research, Motilal Oswal Institutional Equities, tells Ashley Coutinho that supply chain challenges and rise in commodity prices can pose a risk to near-term growth and […]

Thousands of industrial facilities in the United States pump toxic carcinogens into the air. While the Environmental Protection Agency dictates the amount of these chemicals that individual facilities can legally emit, they have done little to address the compounding risk for residents living in concentrated industrial zones. To identify the […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity worldwide, taking its toll not only on people’s personal finances but on public revenue as well. The lockdowns interfered with business activity and pushed unemployment to historical heights. In addition, industrial activity has slowed or stalled, and there were sharp declines in business […]

German exports rebounded at a stronger-than-expected pace in February, data from Destatis showed on Monday. Exports grew 6.4 percent on a monthly basis, reversing a 3.0 percent fall in January. Shipments were forecast to climb 1.5 percent. Likewise, imports advanced 4.5 percent in February, in contrast to the 4.0 percent […]