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In mid-December, a light appeared at the end of a long, dark tunnel when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued emergency authorizations for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. A month later, that light wavered as the death toll in the U.S. reached 400,000 — having reached 300,000 just five weeks earlier — and the outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the worst of the pandemic was yet to come. As Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Even as millions of people are getting vaccinated, many employees won’t be…

Automakers were among the top losers on the bourses on Friday. The BSE Auto Index declined 2.95 per cent on Friday, and was the biggest sectoral loser with the exception of telecom operators. The BSE Telecom index was down 2.97 per cent. In comparison, the benchmark Sensex closed the session with losses of 1.26 per cent. This was the worst show by the auto index in the last three months. Friday’s sharp correction breaks the momentum in the auto index, which had been one of the rally leaders since the…

Discover best practices for optimizing your website’s user experience and SEO to grow your sales.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising Get a glimpse of how to use Facebook’s marketing resources to your business’s advantage. January 28, 2021 2 min read Your website may look great… but it may also be hurting your sales. Why? Because it wasn’t build with your audience in mind. To find out what’s wrong, we set up an unusual consulting session between an entrepreneur and a digital marketing consultant—and filmed it so you can benefit too. Matt Doll runs American Fire Glass, which…

Introduction: Indian investors have been investing in international mutual funds for about seven years or more now. But over the past couple of years, many platforms have become available that allow you to invest directly in US stocks and ETFs. Interest in such direct investing is growing now. Why do Indian investors need to invest in foreign equities at all? The costs involved when you invest directly in foreign markets? What are some of the precautions that direct investors in foreign equities need to exercise? In this podcast, Sanjay Kumar Singh,…

The benchmark indices fell more than a per cent for a fifth day in a row as foreign portfolio investors (FPI) intensified their selling ahead of the Budget on Monday. A sharp fall in the US markets on Wednesday and weak opening in other Asian markets weighed on sentiment of domestic investors causing the Sensex to drop nearly 900 points in intra-day trade. The Sensex ended at 46,874.4, down 535 points, or 1.1 per cent whereas the Nifty fell 150 points, or 1.07 per cent, to end the session at 13,817. The correction in…

January 27, 2021 9 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Domain names are a peculiar property: Prices can range from the typical X.99-dollars-a-year deals offered by registrars still available on the market and up to staggering amounts for highly wanted addresses which are typically held by entities that well-understand their value and price them accordingly. The value of these titles derives from the commonness of their words and the reputation that such monikers, or similar ones, have acquired. The domain’s human reputation (how users perceive the title) and algorithmic reputation (how search engines value it) require…

Hindustan Unilever (HUL), the country’s largest consumer goods company, saw its profit, revenue, and volume for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 (Q3) rise as demand improved steadily across markets. This is the first quarter since the Covid-19 lockdown last year when urban markets have shown buoyancy, analysts tracking the company said, pointing to a gradual recovery in sentiment in cities, which were most impacted by the pandemic. The stock fell 0.34 per cent to end the session at 2,390. HUL derives 60 per cent of its sales from urban areas and the rest from rural…

The co-founder of a social impact marketing agency shares tips for leaders to be more purposeful in their business practices.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising Get a glimpse of how to use Facebook’s marketing resources to your business’s advantage. January 26, 2021 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Afdhel Aziz is the co-founder of Conspiracy of Love, a global purpose consultancy. He works with companies like Adidas, REO, Red Bull and Microsoft, helping them understand how to do more good in the world. “We do this by helping them discover their purpose,…