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India's Plastic Exporters Eye China's Market Share In Western World

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India's share in the $1 trillion global plastic exports market is 1% currently, while China's is as much as 10% Read more

Quint Gets Listed Via Little-known Trading Firm Promoted By Raghav Bahl

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In a related-party transaction, Raghav Bahl transfers digital content business from an unlisted firm to a listed one Read more

Small Business Loans Are Not Going Proportionately To The Hardest-hit Areas, Fed Study Shows

AMERICA - Published date: .

States enduring the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis are receiving a smaller proportion of emergency small business loans, a... Read more

Treasury Launches 20-year Bond To Help Fund The Record Borrowing Needed This Quarter

AMERICA - Published date: .

An auction May 20 will feature a sale of $20 billion worth as part of an effort to push the record-setting debt levels f... Read more

US Services Sector Posts Biggest Contraction Since 2009 As Coronavirus Halts Economic Activity

AMERICA - Published date: .

The U.S. services sector contracted for the first time in about a decade last month as the coronavirus pandemic brought ... Read more

April's Jobs Report Showing Millions Out Of Work Looms Large In The Week Ahead

AMERICA - Published date: .

In the week ahead, the April jobs report is expected to show the highest unemployment since 1939. Read more

Fed Pledges To Keep Rates Near Zero Until Full Employment, Inflation Come Back

AMERICA - Published date: .

The Federal Reserve painted a dour picture of current conditions and pledged Wednesday to continue its historically aggr... Read more

Powell Says The Economy Will Likely Need More Support From The Fed For The Recovery To Be 'robust'

AMERICA - Published date: .

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said more stimulus is needed to ensure a robust economic recovery from the corona... Read more

The Economic Decline In The First Quarter Reveals Even Weaker Consumers And More Unknowns Ahead

AMERICA - Published date: .

Consumers reined in spending faster than expected in the first quarter, probably even before states issued stay-at-home ... Read more

US GDP Shrank 4.8% In The First Quarter Amid Biggest Contraction Since The Financial Crisis

AMERICA - Published date: .

This marked the first negative GDP reading since the 1.1% decline in the first quarter of 2014 and the worst level since... Read more

The Fed May Provide More Details On The Policy 'bazooka' It Fired To Help Markets

AMERICA - Published date: .

The Fed is not expected to adjust rates but it could provide details on the unprecedented moves it has made to fight the... Read more

The US Will Need To Spend Trillions More As Economy Takes Until 2022 To Fully Recover: CNBC Survey

AMERICA - Published date: .

A third of respondents in the CNBC Fed survey believe the economy won't be fully restored until the second quarter of 20... Read more

US Consumer Sentiment Falls For A Third Consecutive Month

AMERICA - Published date: .

U.S. consumer sentiment fell for a third straight month as people weigh the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of ... Read more

The US Economy Has Wiped Out All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession

AMERICA - Published date: .

The jobless claims report showed that it took only five weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains since the ... Read more

Another 4.3 Million Workers Expected To Have Filed Unemployment Claims

AMERICA - Published date: .

About 4.3 million workers are expected to have filed unemployment claims last week, bringing virus-related layoffs to ov... Read more

New York Fed President Williams Says The Economy Won't Be Back To 'full Strength' By End Of 2020

AMERICA - Published date: .

Areas such as construction should be the first to come back, John Williams told CNBC. Read more

The US Economy Has Erased Nearly All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession

AMERICA - Published date: .

The jobless claims report showed that it took only four weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains in the las... Read more

Covid-19 Pandemic May Eat Into Bonuses Of Domestic Investment Bankers

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Increments, on the other hand, are likely be shelved altogether considering the bleak outlook for fundraising in FY21 Read more

The Fed's Main Street Problem: Worries Rise That Money Won't Go Where It's Most Needed

AMERICA - Published date: .

It wasn't supposed to work like this: The Federal Reserve was not going to have to come back and rescue the economy the ... Read more

The Economic Data Is Even Worse Than Wall Street Feared: 'The Economy Is Clearly In Ruins Here'

AMERICA - Published date: .

Consumer and manufacturing data showed the hit to the economy from the coronavirus was even swifter and deeper in the ea... Read more