Assess trends on Pinindices by charting the segments driving the stockmarket up or down. It might pay to watch the massive divergence between megacaps and small caps in the Total Market 1200 index
In the grip of the most brutal confrontation since World War II, the European continent has been keeping up the pretense that life from Saint Petersburg to London will go on, aloof and oblivious of the rumblings. How long will the illusion hold?
Allegations of data manipulation during Mrs. Georgieva's time at the World Bank may have weakened her standing as managing director of the IMF but biased shareholder power at both institutions may be the true bone of contention
Challenged by China power politics, India cannot afford to falter in the upmarch. If market forces play out, if digitalization and interconnectivity on the world wide web opens India's economy to competition, the country's potential will grow apace.
Seeking to expand on the strength of sales for its own account (and not only as platform for third parties), Amazon proves reluctant to adapt its global business model to the social and economic reality of developing countries such as India
As a continental power exposed to potential enemies on its extended borders, China has to strike a balance between the show of material force for short-term advantage and legitimacy founded on soft-power influence
The aim in Weiqi, a Chinese board game, is for a player to surround more territory than the opponent by engaging an abstract strategy, which has been described as a foundation of Chinese thinking on the geopolitics of power
Far reaching and ambitious in the breadth of its digital sweep across India, the plan portends to be inclusive, leaving no Indian behind, fair in treating all businesses on an equal footing, competitive and compelling for domestic challengers
With victory in the Revolt against Spain in 1648, the challenge had evaporated and the Dutch Republic needed to find a fresh purpose in itself, above and beyond its outstanding economic success
The Seventeenth Century - or at least its first 75 years - was called 'Golden' in the Northern Netherlands not just as symbol of material abundance but by virtue of the social cohesion the small Republic achieved
War artillery will fall silent on the Eastern Front but Europe has still to take responsibility about what comes next - Dwindling demographics and a powerful weapon industry may tempt Russia to a last hurrah sooner rather than later
The islands in the Indian Ocean bearing the name are indeed 'scattered' around Madagascar, mainly in the Mozambique Channel. Formally under French sovereignty, their tiny size belies their growing strategic importance for the world's most powerful players
Mayotte, a French Département in the Comoros archipelago, is overpopulated, underemployed, and poorly educated - a potential target of unvarnished Chinese and Russian ambitions, and a basket case for a medium-sized ex-colonial power
