Newspaper - Business & Finance - May 9, 2025
COMPANY NEWS

COMPANY NEWS

Nation’s largest NEV charging network
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Where education is a luxury

Where education is a luxury

In a country that is perpetually facing resource constraints, education is a luxury. The government may indu­lge in...
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Data points

Data points

When Spain went dark
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
DOGE firings

DOGE firings

April saw 105,441 layoffs from US-based employers, a year-over-year increase of more than 60pc as the government...
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Tech shares tumbling

Tech shares tumbling

The combined value of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia has fallen by $2.3tr, or 16pc, since...
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Leaving Africa

Leaving Africa

Africa is on the move with at least 20m emigrants living outside the continent, a three-fold increase from 1990, as...
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Changing world order

Changing world order

In October 2024, according to a poll by Ipsos, 50pc of Dutch people expected America to play a positive role in the...
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Falling Chinese exports

Falling Chinese exports

If Donald Trump’s tariffs remain in place, the World Trade Organisation expects that Chinese exports to America,...
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Reformulating the NFC award

Reformulating the NFC award

There is a need to move away from a population-centric weightage system that augments inequality between provinces in terms
Published 05 May, 2025 05:49am
Local businesses wary of conflict

Local businesses wary of conflict

If tensions persist, economic losses will be unavoidable especially as global trade pivots toward regional integration
Updated 05 May, 2025 09:39am
Looking forward to lower oil prices

Looking forward to lower oil prices

Inventories may increase by about 200m barrels over the next three quarters, which could drive crude toward the low $50s.
Published 05 May, 2025 05:26am
A road map for  savings

A road map for savings

There is a major opportunity to bring trillions of rupees in circulation into one of the many asset classes provided that access
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
The question of water scarcity

The question of water scarcity

A slew of measures costing a fraction of mega‑canal budgets can be implemented immediately and unite provinces.
Updated 28 Apr, 2025 12:09pm
Rescuing Pakistan’s economy

Rescuing Pakistan’s economy

The country’s saving rate could have been 10 percentage points higher if its working-age population ratio matched that of its neighbours.
Updated 28 Apr, 2025 12:10pm
The great agricultural collapse

The great agricultural collapse

Instead of transforming the system from the ground up, policymakers are trying to patch modern tools onto a broken, outdated
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
Diaspora capital for lasting stability

Diaspora capital for lasting stability

With foreign investment having bottomed, analysts argue that remittances should be channelled into productive sectors to boost output.
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
Enduring remote work

Enduring remote work

A survey of 16,000 university graduates in 40 countries by researchers at Stanford University finds that the average...
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
Nvidia’s skyrocketing rise

Nvidia’s skyrocketing rise

In just 19 months, from November 2022 to June 2024, Nvidia’s market capitalisation rose from $330bn to $3.3tr —...
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
Data points

Data points

Buying American fuel
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
AI’s energy costs

AI’s energy costs

Around 2pc of global electricity is spent on powering data centres, most of which is for storing and processing ...
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:31am
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