The US dollar, written off by several experts in the market, has staged a turnaround and shaken off the bear hold at least for the medium term.
The middle class wants a free ride on investments: free advice, free gains. It's time it started paying for professional advice.
The Indian and global indices are neither rising nor falling consistently, making both bears and bulls unhappy. The answer is both buyers and sellers have hope on their side.
If a private group were to happily transfer money from one company to another Sebi would pounce on them. Why isn't it doing so with government companies?
The US Fed's announcement last week spurred the dollar even though the economic news is negative. So watch the dollar to see how the Sensex will move.
The EPFO's bid to take a bigger chunk of your salary should be rebuffed. Like T-Rex, the EPFO is a dinosaur of another era and needs to be downsized
More new investors to be brought in; listing planned in 2014<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />
Thanks to a huge trade deficit, weak capital inflows and higher demand for money in the festive season, we are up against a liquidity crunch in the coming months.
Why are we willing to pay more a Rolex than a Titan or a Casio? The value comes from branding - and information asymmetry
The focus on Rs 1.76 lakh crore - the top end of the CAG's loss estimate in the 2G scam - is actually reducing the criticism to a farce
It is regrettable to see a high flyer fall from grace but as that fall is helping the industry as a whole it is seen as the best thing that happened to the airline industry.
There will be more liquidity available in the housing finance market in 2013 while investors will focus more on transparency, governance and liquidity before investing.
Most politicians belong and relate to the broad range of the middle-class FDI in retail will affect. The potential victims of the NIB are the faceless, voiceless poor of the hinterland.
Most financial products are mis-sold in the urban areas. But in one rural areas, Pudhuaaru KGFS is trying a new tack based on an keen understanding of a household's actual finances before rendering advice.
Investing in wrong financial products is a very high source of leakage from your savings. Insurance policies are the worst form of leakages as costs can be as high as 50% if you are not careful.
Long-term property investment means buying real estate in an area while it is on the rise - not when it is in saturation or decline mode.
The reason is no one trusts anyone in the country and that lack of trust has the capacity to widen deficits, bring down investments, slowdown consumption and pull down the economy.
The finance minister openly venting his displeasure at the RBI stance of not cutting rates isn't the best way to revive a sputtering economy
Throwing money at a piece of real estate where there is no price correction despite the ruckus created by crony capitalism revelations is foolhardy.
Inflation, exports slump, and a volatile rupee: there's enough to worry about.<br /><br /> <br /><br />
Freebies only work in the mid-income housing segment if they actually add value to the property or lighten the financial burden on the buyer in some way.
The Centre does not have money to bail out West Bengal, where will Mamata go? The government knows this and markets too are sensing it. Expect more rallies going forward.
Avoid investments in companies where managements let ego affect performance and this includes government-owned companies as well. <br /><br />
One of the reasons for this resilience is that Bangalore's luxury/premium homes developers have a tendency to think on their feet.
Our elites use too many politically incorrect terms - from "unorganised" sector to "Hindu rate of growth. Time we changed it
The builder-developer is also a victim of the system developed to perfection by the neta-babu nexus.
The RBI will not cut rates unless the inflation numbers look better and government delivers on fiscal reform measures
Reform measures breathe life back into Deal Street as sentiment improves<br /><br /> <br /><br />
Buying a ready possession home is the most obvious choice for most buyers. However, there is also a negative aspect to this.
The answer to this is lack of quality supply in superior locations.There is a basic scarcity of available good-quality, right-sized Grade A office stock in the city's prime locations.