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Onion is now selling at Rs 100 to 110 in the retail markets.Get access to India's fastest growing financial subscriptions service Moneycontrol Pro for as little as Rs 599 for first year. Use the code "GETPRO". Moneycontrol Pro offers you all the information you need for wealth creation including actionable investment ideas, independent research and insights & analysis For more information, check out the Moneycontrol website or mobile app. … [Read more...] about Onion to be imported from Egypt, Turkey to control prices: Assam govt

“A sharp cut in the corporate tax rate suggests a further drop in cigarette volume elasticity, as ITC has the flexibility to defer cigarette price hikes by 2-3 quarters, in our view, and still deliver 19% earnings growth in F20,” said the report. … [Read more...] about Midcaps likely to lead largecaps, Morgan Stanley handpicks 20 stocks for 2020

Members of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee are used to being classified as hawks or doves. But this is doing them, as well as the birds, an injustice. Surely their many-splendoured personalities cannot be limited to being mere hawks and doves? Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan had expanded the range of bird tags by claiming the RBI top brass consisted of owls. "We are neither hawks nor doves, we are actually owls," he had insisted. Whether as wise as an owl or as blind as an owl is open to question. Be that as it may, we build on that deep insight and explore the minutes of the last Monetary Policy Committee meeting to decipher the ornithological profiles of the members. … [Read more...] about Opinion | Bird Watching at the Reserve Bank of India

Some examples? A “bacteria that feeds on sugar and carbohydrates on our teeth” submitted by a five-year-old from Thailand, a horse-dinosaur hybrid from a nine-year-old in Indonesia who nicknamed her creature a “horsasaurus,” a lion from a five-year-old in Turkey, and an imaginary dog with spots from a Finnish seven-year-old. Lukas, a six-year-old from the Czech Republic, sketched a two-headed bird and said, “I wanted to draw a rocket, but before the workshop I changed my mind and started to draw a twinbird. It was suddenly an idea.” Kids say the darndest things. … [Read more...] about Ikea Lets Kids Design Its New Toys, And They’re Delightful

It added that while the global growth is expected to increase modestly from 2.9 percent in 2019 to 3.3 percent in 2020, and 3.4 percent in 2021, the slight downward revision in the projected numbers as compared to those in the October World Economic Outlook, "is owed largely to the downward revisions for India". … [Read more...] about India ‘biggest contributor’ to downward revision in global growth: IMF’s Gita Gopinath