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The Reserve Bank of India has scope to cut interest rates during this calendar year, Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said in a news conference after the central bank's policy review , though he declined to elaborate further. Subbarao said fiscal measures from the government would not necessarily...

The Bank of Thailand raised its policy rate a quarter of a point to 3.50 percent on Wednesday, a move widely expected by economists as inflation pushes higher but one that will annoy the new government, which wants to hold down borrowing costs. The outlook for rates from here on is uncertain...

The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday expressed growing confidence that an economic recovery was building, even though it stuck to its commitment to keep borrowing costs near zero for "an extended period." As expected, the Fed kept its benchmark federal funds rate unchanged in a range of zero to...

Percentage of female MBAs climbing at Wharton reports Percentage of female MBAs climbing at Wharton | Interactive feature - News Since women hold the title of CEO at renowned companies like Yahoo!, PepsiCo and Sunoco, it should be no surprise that the percentage of female MBAs at the Wharton...

India sees fastest growth of millionaires HONG KONG: The number of millionaires grew by 22.7 percent in India and 20.3 percent in China last year as the ranks of wealthy in the Asia-Pacific region swelled to 2.8 million, according to a report by wealth management company Merrill Lynch on...

MUMBAI: From being one of the most preferred investment destinations, foreign funds are slowly moving out of India as growth has slowed in the government’s fight against double-digit inflation. The US sub-prime crisis, followed by soaring in crude oil prices, has left the Indian stock markets...

ICAP sees year profit in line with forecasts ... consumers are facing new concerns about the... Bush came into office as America's first "MBA president, " but a raft of problems are threatening to tarnish h... General Motors ... More...

Steen sees bright future for PSU ... noted that PSU meteorology students have earned national honors, as have students in the MBA program. In the 2007 school year, PSU students donated more than 165,000 hours of ... More...

UK: BASF agrochem sees strong trend continuing ... and number five in herbicides. Heinz, who joined BASF in 1984 and holds an MBA from Duke University in North Carolina, said the company has one of the strongest ... More...

Jet Airways thinks there is plenty of operational synergy between its low-cost airline JetLite and SpiceJet. Speaking to Business Standard, Jet Executive Director Saroj Datta said: "SpiceJet and JetLite are an absolute fit in so far as their business models are concerned." Commenting on the...

Space Hotel Sees 2012 Opening BARCELONA (Reuters) - "Galactic Suite," the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the...

KOLKATA: Relationship between the Kishore Biyani-controlled Future Group and V P Sharma-promoted Planet Retail Holdings seem to be in choppy waters. It is rumoured that the Future Group, which holds 49% stake in Planet Retail Holdings, is likely to offload the entire stake and come out of the...

YUM BRANDS SEES CHINA, INDIA GAINING IMPORTANCE Los Angeles The Economic Times Yum Brands, operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell said half of its 2007 operating profit would come from outside the US as it grows in China and India. Yum, based in Louisville, Kentucky, has been placing...

GULPING DOWN: An artist’s concept of the black hole swallowing a star that was caught by a NASA telescope. Washington: A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners has been caught in the act of guzzling a star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, scientists using an orbiting NASA...

Everybody's partner Anjali Prayag The changing role of HR in today's world sees it lending a hand to every other department of a company, the better to boost bottom lines. There's one aspect where HR seems to have dropped the ball. "We have not managed the social aspects... very...