Oil prices rose on Monday, pushing Brent back above $50 a barrel, buoyed by hopes that a rollout of coronavirus vaccines will lift global fuel demand while a tanker explosion in Saudi Arabia jangled nerves in the market. Brent crude futures for February rose 54 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $50.51 a barrel by 09.50 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures for January were up 46 cents, or 1 per cent, at $47.03 a barrel. Prices also extended gains amid supply jitters after a shipping firm said an…

December 11, 2020 14 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Does your online course marketing plan look anything like most course launches?: Actually, almost all new course creators suffer this problem. You’re an expert in your field, but not an online marketer. You’ve just spent months brainstorming, scripting, recording, editing, uploading your course, and you even ran your first beta round. And now what? How do you bring more visitors to your sales page and enroll more students? The answer is search engine optimization (SEO).  Today, you’re going to learn how to start bringing in a…

Insurance regulator IRDAI on Wednesday proposed a standard personal accident product with common coverage and policy wordings across the industry, a move aimed at increasing penetration of the product. “Every general and standalone health insurer, who has been issued a certificate of registration to transact general and/or health insurance business, shall mandatorily offer this product,” said the draft guidelines issued by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). General and health insurers should offer the product from April 1, 2021 onwards. The insurance market is having a…

Barley Barley in Jaipur is trading at Rs 1,437 a quintal. The price is expected to trade lower at Rs 1,400 a quintal following ample wheat supplies and subdued demand from the feed industry. Maize Maize in Gulabbagh is trading at Rs 1,618 a quintal. The price is expected to trade lower at Rs 1,575 a quintal following subdued demand at higher price levels and ample supplies in the market. Prerana Desai, Research head, Edelweiss Agri Services and Credit Dear Reader, Business Standard has always strived hard…

December 11, 2020 5 min read The holidays are here and with the usual merriment comes the constant stream of holiday cards. Most of us keep and display the ones sent by friends and family. Holiday cards from businesses? They’re nice, but honestly, they usually go right into the trash.   But then there are the cards sent by Jesse Guma and Lowell Freedman, two guys who run a production company called Grand Street Media that Entrepreneur has worked with over the years. Most businesses play it safe with a relatively bland, politically-correct “Season’s Greetings” card. But not these guys. Each…

Tea time is me-time and a true connoisseur wouldn’t swap it for anything else in the world. Listen to this podcast for Namrata Kohli’s chat over tea with Duggar and Goodricke Group MD Atul Asthana TopicsCoronavirus | Tea gardens Darjeeling | Darjeeling’s tea Namrata Kohli  |  New Delhi  Last Updated at December 12, 2020 20:58 IST How does one find authentic tea? If you were to rate in order of purity and even pricing, the best would be white tea, followed by Oolong, green and finally black tea. Kausshal Duggar, founder of Teabox, says his…

Initial public offerings have been doing extremely well lately, bringing to mind the excesses of the tech bubble in the late 1990s. Shares in Chinese toymaker Pop Mart International Ltd. jumped as much as 112 per cent in their debut Friday, after home-rental platform Airbnb closed 113 per cent above its IPO price in New York. JD Health International surged 56 per cent in its debut Tuesday while DoorDash soared 86 per cent inon Wednesday. Pricing IPOs The FTSE Renaissance Global IPO Index, which tracks the performance of offerings worldwide, is up 82 per…

December 11, 2020 10 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When I first got into marketing, it was long enough ago that a lot of people said the internet would just be a fad. Several years later, when social media started to become a thing, most people said the same about that. Today, it’s clear how ludicrous those theories were, but there is still a tremendous amount of misinformation about social media.  A lot of people have over- or under-inflated expectations of the results they should anticipate, how much work goes into it and how they…