On October 13, 2026, NPCI’s UPI and Services Steering Committee deferred the merchant discount rate on select UPI payments. Citing the festive season, it said the MDR will be implemented “...
The Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter (PSM) is a survey method that finds the price range customers will accept for a product by asking four simple questions about when a price feels too cheap, a...
When FADA’s August data showed CNG, hybrid, and electric cars edging past petrol for the first time, we flagged that a single month wasn’t a trend and that September and October would be t...
On October 7, the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% — the first increase since February 2023 — and shifted its stance from neut...
Dhanteras falls on November 6 this year, exactly a month away, and the World Gold Council’s own data points to something that would have sounded implausible a few years ago: in the first quarter...
The planned “No UPI Day” protest for October 2 — which we flagged two weeks ago as the kind of merchant-behaviour question standard trackers don’t capture — just played out in a genu...
Brent crude crossed $107 a barrel this weekend, and the rupee slipped past 96 to the dollar on September 28 for the first time — two numbers moving together, twelve days before Navratri begins. The pr...
The Centre’s onion buffer-stock intervention, flagged as a plan back in July, is now visibly running: roughly 4,000 tonnes sold across 17 cities in the intervention’s first ten days, moved...
FADA’s August retail numbers, released September 7, led with a genuinely strong headline: 24.23 lakh vehicle registrations, up 17.51% year-on-year, the biggest August on record. That’s the...
