Brics mania over, says Ruchir Sharma

By Ruchir Sharma The wreckage caused by China's great, juddering slowdown continues to spread far beyond the country's shores. Although most commodities enjoyed a bounce on May 3, after better-thanexpected US employment data, the plunge in their ...

After World War II, when fear of Hitler was giving way to fear of Stalin, George Orwell rebuked intellectuals for "the instinct to bow down before the conqueror of the moment, to accept the existing trend as irreversible." In recent decades, the ...

Market sentiment has been buoyant this year. Company balance sheets and dividend potential remain strong, and merger and acquisition activity is back on the agenda. But central bank action has remained the main plank supporting markets, with the ...

The UK has managed to avoid a triple dip recession and expanded 0.3% in the first quarter of this year. However, pressure has been mounting on the UK government after the credit ratings agency Fitch stripped the UK of its triple A rating, this comes ...

Sam Panthaky/Agence France-Presse — Narendra Modi addressing an election rally in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Dec. 20, 2012. As India's middle class grows in number and political clout, it has found a new hero in Gujarat's chief minister, Narendra ...

'We are going in the wrong direction!' How often have we heard this in the recent past when talk veers to India's future? There is an overriding and all-pervasive atmosphere of pessimism today. There are, no doubt, short-term political issues, and ...

The Great Convergence: why some low income countries will continue to catch up with the rich developed economies of the West, and some will fail. It's a ridiculously ambitious title for a 40 minute talk. So in a bid to break it down into manageable ...

MAY 13 - Today I am here in Washington, DC getting ready to speak at the session on Beyond Frontier Markets at the Global Private Equity Conference, the biggest event in the world for private equity players in emerging markets. And as I prepare to ...

PLATINUM prices may spike in coming weeks as local supply problems continue to escalate. The catalyst for an upswing came on Friday when Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's top platinum producer, revealed a restructuring plan that has the ...