Delhiites shivered through a cold, light black and soggy Friday, with the temperature not climbing past a numbing 12.9 degrees Celsius, the most reduced greatest recorded this season. Intermittent light shower from unanticipated evening onwards — which the weatherman said might be proceed till...
Underscoring the prolonged period of slowdown in Asia's third-largest economy, the activity in services sector, which makes up of nearly 60% of country’s economic output shrank at the fastest pace in more than four years in September. The HSBC Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), compiled...
Stocks crash to lowest level in 2 years
MUMBAI: The stock market cracked under pressure from the boiling global financial crisis, with the barometer index tanking 725 points to trade at its lowest level in two years as foreign funds left in search of safer investment havens.
The 30 share...
Mortgage application volume falls to lowest level of the year even as interest rates decline
... is equal to the application volume on March 16, 1990, the first week the MBA tracked application volume. A reading of 461.3 means mortgage application activity is 4.613 times ...
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India has been identified as one of the lowest paymasters for information technology (IT) managers, according to Mercer's "IT pay around the world survey 2007".
It was ranked fourth from the bottom, since Indian IT managers get an average salary of $25,000 a year. The survey further reveals...
NEW DELHI: Indians are still not sure of the plastic money. Credit cards spend as a proportion of the total expenditure by Indians is one of the lowest in the world. While Indians swiped plastic money worth $6 billion in 2006, credit card users in Korea cumulatively spent $136 billion.
Indians...
Credit card use in India lowest in world
Indians are still not sure of the plastic money. Credit cards spend as a proportion of the total expenditure by Indians is one of the lowest in the world. While Indians swiped plastic money worth $6 billion in 2006, credit card users in Korea...
The availability of foodgrains including cereals and pulses has fallen to the lowest level in the past two decades (from per capita availability of 190 kg per year during 1976-80 to 186 kg during 2004-07), reflecting the slow growth in the country’s agriculture sector, according to a...