

Monday 20 April '09
Most finance textbooks emphasise the virtues of diversification: by diversifying your investments you can minimise your losses.....Monday 13 April '09
The returns that you earn from a stock depend on two factors: the rate at which its earnings per share will grow in future...Monday
6 April '09When a stock’s price to earnings ratio gets beaten down to a level that it last saw in 2003, it calls for investigation.Monday
30 March '09If you have wondered why your monthly budget refuses to come down despite a low rate of WPI inflation...Monday
23 March '09During the bull run of 2004-07, the capital goods sector outperformed consumption-linked sectors.....Monday
16 March '09As the world’s largest democracy undertakes its quinquennial exercise of electing a new government...Monday
9 March '09The good thing about a bear market is that stocks of market leaders, which would be prohibitively expensive during a bull run...Monday
26 January '09As the stimulus plans and rate cuts introduced by governments and central banks around the world begin to take effect...Monday
19 January '09Oversight of auditors and independent directors and tighter accounting norms are neededMonday
19 January '09In the aftermath of the Satyam episode (Satyam Computer’s chairman and promoter B Ramalinga Raju admitted to having cooked the books and shown inflated earnings for years)...Monday
12 January '09As Q3FY09 results begin to trickle in, investors will watch them carefully for a feel of the corporate sector’s state of health.Monday
5 January '09After being battered in 2008, the global financial system is likely to begin recovering in 2009.Monday
29 December '08Though the Indian markets declined by more than 50 per cent this year, the long-term India growth story remains intact...Monday
29 December '08While 2008 was a challenging year for both the economy and the markets, we should thank our stars: the Indian economy is still expected to register a 6.5-7 per cent GDP growth rate in FY09...Monday
22 December '08With the interest rate cycle turning and the Reserve Bank of India likely to pursue a soft monetary policy...Monday
22 December '08Iron-ore demand has fallen due to the global slowdown, and prices have corrected sharply.Monday
22 December '08At 36, Ashish Kapur (name changed to protect identity), an assistant vice-president with a Chandigarh-based realty firm, had everything going for him.Wednesday
15 October '08What is causing the current liquidity crisis in the debt segment of mutual funds? Will the RBI’s Rs 20,000 crore...Thursday
11 September '08National Hydroelectric Power Corporation’s initial public offer of 167.74 crore shares (face value Rs 10) is likely...Sunday
25 November '07During the past two-three years, rental rates for office space have been rising relentlessly in the major metros.Tuesday
6 November '07Contract research and contract manufacturing services has emerged as a significant opportunity area for...Sunday
4 November '07Land price escalations to the extent of five to 10 times since 2003 in most Tier I and Tier II cities have become the biggest challenge to mall developers...Thursday
1 November '07Forget picketing NGOs and Left-leaning activists. The next round of backlash against globalisation is likely to come...Monday
15 October '07Carlson Companies, one of the largest privately held corporations in the US, runs 1,700 hotels, resorts, restaurants, and cruise ships in 82 countries, and employs 1,90,000 people worldwide.Sunday
14 October '07The Government’s new resettlement & rehabilitation policy announced last week addresses most of the concerns of landowners; now for the implementation.