People tend to vegetables growing in a field as emission rises from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019.BloombergElon Musk is going to pay $…
Loans to bottom of pyramid pick up, but…
MUMBAI: The microfinance sector is slowly returning to normalcy with a spike in fresh disbursements, but repayments remain a concern with delinquencies on the rise, according to a report by credit bureau Crif Highmark. With…
Xi’s push against Jack Ma sparks new threat…
Chinese tech companies did a pretty good job convincing global investors that they operated independently from the Communist Party. Now, Jack Ma has become a case study for the firms’ biggest skeptics. Companies from Alibaba…
The Moneyist: I pay my gardener $100 a…
Dear Moneyist, I pay my gardener $ 100 per month. He or one of his employees comes once a week on Mondays, and does a pretty good job. When the weather is rainy, he does…
Palihapitiya says money in savings will be ‘rocket…
Chamath Palihapitiya speaking at the 2017 Delivering Alpha conference in New York on Sept. 12, 2017.David A. Grogan | CNBCConsumers have been sitting at home for months and months, and without typical things to spend…
Stocks that could prove to be dark horses…
Any correction and weakness is an opportunity to add Reliance on dips, says Gurmeet Chadha, Co-Founder, Complete Circle Consultants.How much more steam does the metals rally have? . If you look at the LME, the…
Trump finally concedes Biden will become president
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted, for the first time in his own words, that President-elect Joe Biden's administration would take charge on Jan. 20.Without mentioning Biden by name, Trump in a nearly…
Facebook will block Trump from posting at least…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said the company would block President Donald Trump from posting to his Facebook and Instagram accounts for an indefinite amount of time and at least until President-elect Joe Biden…
View: Bad bank is a good idea, but…
A bad bank will need bad boys — vultures, predators and junk bond traders — to play the game. A kosher arrangement convenient to regulators, cosy for banks and anodyne to bureaucrats will kill the…