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Thursday, May 9, 2024
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Topic: Bloomberg Opinion

The clock is ticking on the patience of Indian equity funds investors

Andy Mukherjee -
Of 416 open-ended, onshore equity funds, 401 have lost money. Imagine the peril if investors give up on funds sitting on hard-to-liquidate portfolios.

IL&FS crisis shows India doesn’t have a clue how to pay for infrastructure

Mihir Sharma -
Modi govt doubled down on spending on roads & railways, hoping investment would pay for itself in a revival of private sector activity. It hasn’t.

Essar Steel may not even be bankrupt by the time bidding for it ends

Andy Mukherjee -
If Numetal decides to pay for Essar’s defaults, bidding to resolve the high-profile bankruptcy will be one where the firm isn’t even bankrupt anymore.

Averting India’s mini-Lehman moment was the easy part

Andy Mukherjee -
With polls due next year, and opposition attacking Modi govt for rescuing IL&FS, scope to utilise state-run institutions’ funds may be limited.

Facebook security breach exposes a crisis of faith

Shira Ovide -
It will be difficult for Facebook to regain the trust of its customers after it reported a security flaw that affected almost 50 million accounts. 

Only India and China can help emerging markets rebound

Komal Sri Kumar -
China and India are the only two developing nations that feature in the world market capitalisation rankings in 2017. 

Why Lehman’s Act 3 won’t play in emerging markets

Andy Mukherjee -
The forces that hastened Lehman’s demise have steadied emerging markets in the last 10 years.

Delay in selling Essar should be a wake-up call for India’s bankruptcy process

Andy Mukherjee -
What should’ve been simple question of deciding who’s willing to shell out the most for a prized asset has become a complex debate.

Overuse of the word ‘epidemic’ in healthcare warnings has become a common scare tactic

Faye Flam -
Health scares exist only because common-sense assumptions in healthcare do not grab the attention of editors at top news sites.

How America has made a weapon of the dollar to stay put as economic superpower

Satyajit Das -
The dollar allows the nation easily to finance its trade and budget deficits, other than protecting them against balance-of-payments crises.
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CEA Nageswaran says India’s FY24 growth could hit 8%, but World Bank warns this is ‘above potential’

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Speaking at an event, World Bank country director Auguste Tano Kouamé said growth above potential would result in high inflation.

Defence

Three Indian Navy ships deployed to South China Sea

Smruti Deshpande -
Deployment comes at a time when Yuan Wang 03, a Chinese missile and satellite tracking vessel, has entered Indian Ocean Region.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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