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Saturday, August 30, 2025
TopicStock market crash

Topic: Stock market crash

If you want real news on TV, watch business channels. There’s no spectacle, noise, hype

Business news channels offer what general news channels seldom do: information and informed opinion without any fireworks.

Asian stocks plummet after Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, Black Monday fear looms large

In China, the blue-chip CSI 300 index was down more than 7%. Japan’s Nikkei sank 7.8%, while South Korea dropped 5%.

The world isn’t heading to a new Cold War. It’s closer to the 1930s world order collapse

The Great Depression was not simply the stock market crash of 1929. It brought profound cultural, social, and political changes to the world, from Minneapolis to Mumbai.

‘Irrational exuberance & fanciful narratives’ — indicators and analysts warn of a stock market bubble

Various indicators point to the Indian stock market being overvalued. Analysts say that a crash following an unforeseen event would be exacerbated because of these excessive valuations.

‘Just for fun’ — Gujarat broker says didn’t actually use ‘kala jadu’ to spark stock market fall

Stockbroker Minish Patel had claimed in a Telegram message to his 12 lakh subscribers that he spent Rs 8.5 crore on ‘black magic’ to trigger market fall last week.

These are the 5 Ps that will help determine if stock markets have bottomed out

Investors have fled emerging markets in record numbers, even though central banks and governments have piled on stimulus to counter the virus impact.

Sensex plunges over 700 points, Nifty falls below 8,400

Starting the new financial year on a negative note, the 30-share BSE barometer was trading 714.74 points or 2.43 per cent lower at 28,753.75.

This Indian fund manager has been buying stocks every day even as markets tank

Rajeev Thakkar of PPFAS Mutual Fund says this slump won’t be as bad for markets as global financial crisis & will be eased by massive support measures.

Study shows coronavirus lockdown can be beneficial for economy

The study, by economists Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck and Emil Verner looks at the economic impact of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in USA.

Sensex plummets over 2700 points, global markets resume free fall amid coronavirus lockdown

Extreme lockdown measures taken by India and the world over have adversely affected investor sentiment, stoking recession fears.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.