Fears of coronavirus (COVID-19) getting a tighter grip over most countries has triggered a panic across financial markets over the past few weeks. Most analysts have trimmed their growth forecast for the global economy, financial markets have been rattled by the developments. Global share prices headed for the worst week since global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008 as investors braced for the coronavirus to become a pandemic and rapidly spread around the world. Hopes that the epidemic that started in China would be over in a few months and economic activity would return to normal have…

Master these five skills and you’re well on your way to creating content that grabs attention and turns prospects into buyers. February 26, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The following excerpt is from Robert W. Bly’s The Content Marketing Handbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble  I love formulas for writing for two reasons. First, the best formulas are simple, easy to remember and rapidly mastered. Knowing them can help you create content and copy that’s twice as effective in half the time. Second, the reason they became formulas in…

Even as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman did away with most income-tax deductions in the new tax regime announced in her Budget for 2020-21, the insurance industry remains unfazed and confident of retaining customers. They, however, maintain that removing tax incentives given for putting money in insurance is disservice to customers. “If tax-saving was a sweetener, we will figure out a way to work without the sweetener. Indian consumers buy insurance for a variety of reasons, and tax incentives stand much lower on the list. But the move will surely make some impact, as it directly affects…

At 08:42 am, Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) were trading 54 points or 0.46 per cent lower at 11,671 levels, indicating a negative start for the Indian market on Thursday. Here’s a look at the top stocks that may remain in focus today – Apollo Tyres: Apollo Tyres on Wednesday said private equity firm Warburg Pincus will invest Rs 1,080 crore (around $150 million) in the company. India Cements: Radhakishan Damani and his brother Gopikishan S Damani, bought 27,25,468 and 83,71,516 shares, respectively on Wednesday, NSE…

Imagine if Thomas Edison, who grew up poor and without much formal education, hadn’t persevered through the hardships in his life. Almost entirely deaf from an early age, Edison created the carbon transmitter, which made it easier to hear sounds on the telephone. That invention led to a string of others, including his most widely recognized: the phonograph and the lightbulb. What kept Edison going? Biographers describe his inclination to solve problems and tinker, as well as his persistence, but there was something else, too. Persevering in the face of adversity requires resilience. “I have not failed,” Edison famously said.…

The Inside the Mind of the CEO interview series explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. For more insight, see PwC’s CEO Survey. As Indonesia’s emerging economy develops and the country transitions into an industrial society, family-owned conglomerates such as the US$21 billion Lippo Group are playing an important role. They are independent from the government but have often grown up and evolved with it. In Indonesia, both the economy and Lippo are growing: The country’s GDP is expected to be around 5 percent this year, and Lippo Karawaci, the flagship real estate…

Jürgen Klopp, head coach of soccer team Liverpool FC, and recently voted FIFA’s Best Coach of 2019, likes to tell a story about motivating his players ahead of an important match. He showed them movie clips from Rocky IV of Rocky Balboa preparing to take on Ivan Drago. Klopp gave a rousing speech about Soviet technology, Siberian training camps, and good versus evil. But when he looked at his players, he realized they were too young to have heard of Rocky. No one had a clue what he was talking about. “We think we’re giving the greatest speech in the…

Shifting your focus to a larger cause can deepen your understanding about entrepreneurship. February 21, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I recently signed up to do a volunteer phone-banking shift for a presidential campaign. I’m not usually a very politically active person. I vote and follow the news, and I care about the direction of the country, but until now I had never gotten directly involved with political volunteering. But while cold-calling prospective voters in New Hampshire to talk about why I believe that one particular presidential candidate is the right choice, I…