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European and US stock markets fell Monday amid ongoing concerns about the government debt crisis gripping the euro currency and its potential impact on the banking sector. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British was down 5.88 points, or 0.1 percent, at 5,057.05 while France’s CAC-40 fell 8.15 points, or 0.2 percent, at [...]
Low demand from millers is likely to reduce mustard prices in the next few weeks. The price (mill delivery, 42%) is hovering around Rs 2,450 a quintal in major mandis of Rajasthan. A few months ago, it was around Rs 3,000 a quintal. Mills are working at 40% capacity as demand is slow. The situation [...]
Farmers’ markets are springing back in a big way, and dark skies and a threat of rain failed to dampen the enthusiasm today. Just 4 miles apart on High Street, the Clintonville and Worthington farmers’ markets drew thousands of shoppers. Both opened this month. Renee Hall, 36, visits the Worthington market at least once a [...]
US President Barack Obama said today that offshore oil drilling could only go forward if there were assurances that a disaster like the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill would not happen again. As Obama officially unveiled a commission to investigate the accident, he issued a stern message that while keeping pressure on firms involved [...]
Haven status in a market storm sounds good for the United States, but could be dangerous. The current atmosphere bolsters the dollar’s standing and delivers the perk of cheap financing. But for a nation that desperately needs to kick its borrowing habit, the weak euro could be a bad influence. Global financial markets have been [...]
The flowering phenomenon in mango is a complex one. Normally, it crops heavily in one year (on year) and bears less or no crop the following year (off year). Again, it yields heavily the next year. Thus the rhythm of bearing in mango is not strictly ‘alternate’ but ‘irregular’ or ‘erratic’. Research findings have clearly [...]
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