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Preparing for the ‘petroyuan’?

I wonder how long a certain Zoltar Pozsar, New York-based economist and investment research director at Credit Suisse (CS), will keep his job – if he still has it –…

Currency risks? US corporates yawn

Muted gyrations in foreign exchange markets has turned companies complacent about hedging currency risks, and as the third-quarter earnings season gets underway investors should brace for US companies to report…

Commercializing research

A study of Scopus, the world’s most comprehensive, multidisciplinary database of scholarly literature, data, and analytics reveals astonishingly positive figures about the progress made in the quality and quantum of…

How to encourage entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a unique skillset, artistic as well as scientific. It is the soul of development philosophy. Western countries which have witnessed a giant leap in technological transformation, especially in…

Investing in people

According to a World Bank report issued this year, Pakistan stands behind other South Asian countries as well as most countries across the world in terms of its ability to…

Can AI be destructive?

On May 17, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI – the company that owns ChatGPT – urged for artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. He testified before the US Senate committee concerning…

Corporate power

Federal prosecutors last month charged the crypto currency CEO phenom Sam Bankman-Fried with committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.” The 30-year-old billionaire, the Securities and Exchange…

Reforms for justice : Part – II

The legal profession is rapidly changing – but not in Pakistan. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is going to impact the legal sector. In other countries international lawyers and law firms,…

The rise of tech unicorns

The high potential of the tech industry has led to the growth of ‘tech unicorns’ which are companies that have been valued at more than $1 billion by investors. Their…