Economy

The IMF pegs global growth at 3.1% for 2026 — a tidy single figure that hides a world pulling apart. India runs at 7%, the Middle East and Central Asia region contracts 0.3%, and the euro area crawls at 1.1%. Here's how to read a divergence this wide.

Government data released today put India's retail inflation at 5.54% for September, up from 4.83% a month earlier. The headline moved; the food basket moved almost twice as hard.

In July, ₹2.36 lakh crore went into India’s mutual funds. In August, only ₹41,354 crore. That looks like a crash — but the money ordinary people save actually went up. Here is how to read the monthly table without being fooled by it.

Anthropic published a model of how AI could reshape growth, wages and jobs by 2030. In its most extreme scenario the US economy grows 15.4% a year — and the wage bill for cognitive work falls 31%. Here is what the model says, and the one number almost nobody quotes.

India's official June 2026 fund data shows ₹52,949 crore leaving the industry while assets hit ₹82.22 lakh crore — and gold ETF investors buying straight into gold's worst month in years. Here's how to read the table like a professional.