Companies want to move production out of China, Is it possible?
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Companies want to move production out of China, Is it possible?

The investor in minimizing the odds. Unfortunately, a lot of companies manufacturing or importing from China are forced to learn it the hard way.  The Chinese economy will take a minimum of two quarters to get back on track after facing a deadly hit by COVID-19. The multinationals whose production units are set mostly in China are to pay for it. Hence, companies are left with no alternative than to spread their wings to defend any such happenings in the future. 

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Oil war triggered by Saudi: Boon to Indian Economy
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Oil war triggered by Saudi: Boon to Indian Economy

Even as nations around the world are busy battling COVID-19, Saudi Arabia launched an all-out oil war with the biggest cut in its prices in the last 20 years after a failure by OPEC+ to clinch a deal to cut production, owing to Russia's opposition. As a result, oil prices saw a plunge in global markets. Saudi Aramco took immediate action to cut prices after the OPEC+ collapse, offering big discounts for crude deliveries from next month, when the current output restrictions end. 

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Is Defence turning out to be the next Big Export sector
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Is Defence turning out to be the next Big Export sector

The recently held DefExpo India 2020 held in Lucknow, turned out to be a grand success. The theme of the Expo was ‘India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub’ and the focus was on ‘Digital Transformation of Defence’ and that's exactly where India stands in the global market. Harnessing the potential of the Indian industry, by initiating new technologies and solutions is vital for the desired growth of this industry.

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Crude oil: Price war vs Global Demand
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Crude oil: Price war vs Global Demand

US President says that Crude Oil price war may be over.But, what’s exactly going on with oil and oil producers? There’s a basic difference between a ‘need’ and a ‘want’. Needs are necessities that are required no matter what. On the other hand wants are not necessities but, considered by the individual as a necessity. So to understand, wants are like ‘you don’t need but still you want them’. Here we are not trying to teach you a lesson of psychology but drawing your attention towards crude oil. A lot of drama has been going around crude oil for the last few weeks. There is a price war going on which led to the decrease in oil prices to 18-year low! But now this war may end soon and prices would be back on track. Thanks to Coronavirus. But, this drama was shown the world something that they had not expected. Read on.

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Walmart strategy- Every Day Low Pricing Model
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Walmart strategy- Every Day Low Pricing Model

We see a lot of supermarket chains around us. Big Bazaar, D-Mart, V-Mart are some names that have gone huge and later released their IPO. Supermarket chains have expanded from metro cities to now smaller towns. One thing that unequivocally attracts people to the Supermarkets stores is their low pricing.

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How cryptocurrency works
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How cryptocurrency works

“I can say almost with certainty that they will come to a bad ending.” These words by Warren Buffett have made investors a lot more skeptical about crypto investment. Well, not only him but many great investors have spoken against crypto. But one thing is for sure; you cannot ignore cryptos!

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How is Coronavirus Impacting the World
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How is Coronavirus Impacting the World's Economy?

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away". But in today's scenario, nothing could help you stay away from the deadly pandemic or its impact. Mainland China has reported a death toll of over 2800 and more than 78000 cases are said to be affected.

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Indian Banks and Emerging Markets: A Comparison
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Indian Banks and Emerging Markets: A Comparison

Indian banking has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent times. However, this cannot be denied that the fundamentals of Indian banking are strong and they enjoy the fair trust of its depositors.

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Why Negative Yield on Bonds is Rising?
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Why Negative Yield on Bonds is Rising?

While the Indian bond market is busy welcoming the Bharat Bond ETF and Nifty-Bharat Bonds Index, the global bond market is fighting an entirely new battle of negative yields. According to Bloomberg, the negative yield bonds were almost inexistent until 2015, and now just four years later, more than 25% of global debt bonds are yielding negative.

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Will Negative Interest Rates Work: Fire or Backfire?
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Will Negative Interest Rates Work: Fire or Backfire?

Albert Einstein once said, "Compound Interest is the eighth wonder of the world." Had he been alive, he would have declared 'negative interest rates' as the ninth wonder of the world.

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Impact of US China Trade War on Global Supply Chain
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Impact of US China Trade War on Global Supply Chain

Global trade has evolved so much in past centuries. The oldest stories of trade range for more than 3000 years, where Arabs, India, and China traded in a variety of goods. With time the concept of national identity strengthened in Europe, and around 1000AD, mercantilism started.

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Downward spiral: Slowdown grips Indian economy
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Downward spiral: Slowdown grips Indian economy

Assume you go to the gym one morning. The moment you reach, you are informed that you have won a lucky draw and you shall be getting a cashback of ₹ 1000.

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Why is the Rupee depreciating Against Dollar?
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Why is the Rupee depreciating Against Dollar?

This season of monsoon has seen much more than rains falling from the heavens. The GDP figures, manufacturing output, tax collection are only a handful of indicators.

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What are the Geopolitical Factors that affect Stock Market?
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What are the Geopolitical Factors that affect Stock Market?

G-E-O-P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L? Difficult to understand right? 

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SWIFT- How It Works: Gains & Risk
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SWIFT- How It Works: Gains & Risk

Thanks to SWIFT that today, tracking the swift movement of money internationally from bank to bank is so much easier. What is SWIFT? It is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, the world's largest electronic payment messaging system. SWIFT is a huge messaging network for securely moving the money and sending and receiving information for instructions and is used by financial institutions like banks. SWIFT doesn’t even touch the money; it just makes it move.

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