On an overall basis, despite GDP growth and rise in value of asset prices, the UPA government performance has been well below par on all counts. Markets want a government that could improve the overall performance of the economy.<br /><br />
Indian gold premiums hit another record on Thursday, driven by lower supplies to meet firm demand for weddings, which will continue till May.<br /><br />
Adani Group is based in Gujarat, where Modi is chief minister.<br /><br />
Royal Bank of Scotland and rating agency Standard & Poor's have been sued by a group of European institutional investors for damages of up to $250 million suffered on complex financial products in the lead-up to the global financial crisis.
The Sensex is benefitting from the Modi bounce, but investors would do well to remain cautious
The market's enthusiasm over Modi's ascension to power may well be misplaced. The experiment to find out whether a failing economy can be lifted by a positively decisive leader like Modi is likely to fail, says Barua
Analysts say traders had been building long positions on expectations the BJP would sail through in the results for the five state Assembly elections.
The proposal still needs the approval of the Employee Pension Fund Organisation Board before implementation.
Here's the poser: the purpose of having credit and debit cards is to reduce the use of paper money. But this new requirement is making debit card use relatively unsafe for many.
Whatever the tenure, and whether you are in the lowest tax bracket or the highest, you can beat almost any safe bank FD return with a tax-free bond.
The Nifty is down 13.90 points at 6187.95. The Sensex is down 48.98 points at 20805.94.
As a decade's worth of easy foreign money starts to ebb away from emerging economies, their governments are renewing efforts to deepen domestic savings pools - even if change is painfully slow.<br /><br />
The BSE Sensex down 63 points at 20831, Nifty down 21 points at 6196.
If you are not careful while punching the PIN into the card machine, your card is vulnerable to frauds.
The agency had also conducted searches on the premises of Mohan India Ltd on 31 October and had issued prohibitory orders on a number of them.
The price band for the issue, where PGCIL will offer 78.70 crore shares, has been fixed at Rs 85-90 a share.
The correct way to answer the question "should one be invested in equities?" is to ask two more questions that are what is the risk of being invested in equities and what is the risk of not being invested in equities going into calendar year 2014.<br /><br />
Indian markets ended in the green for a third straight day today with Sensex ending over 106 points up at 20,898.01 and the Nifty rising 42 points to 6218.
An expansion in farm output and some infrastructure helped the Indian economy recover slightly in the September quarter, but growth still hovered close to decade lows, tempering hopes of a sustained rebound ahead of elections due next year.<br /><br />
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, will raise up to Rs 9576 crore ($1.53 billion) through a share sale to institutional investors or a follow-on public offer, it said in a statement late on Friday.
And typically such a couple would be double-income earning, but God forbid, if thing goes wrong? You would not want to continue with the arrangement. You have freedom to that extent. But this comes with a price. So here are a few
It is the level of risk exposure in an investment proposition that investors do not fully understand. What investors are led to understand as risk is rather a vague labeling of investments mostly on their potentiality to deliver returns based on their past experience.
Indian stock markets opened flat on mixed global cues and may see cautious trading ahead of state election results and winter session of the Parliament, which starts on December 5.<br /><br />
The market capitalisation (m-cap ) of nine of the top 10 most valued companies in Indian advanced by Rs. 47,404 crore last week, with more than a third of the gains accounted for by state-owned energy giant ONGC.
On Friday, the government data showed that the economy fared better than expected growing at 4.8 percent in the second quarter. In Q1, the same stood at 4.4 percent, taking the overall growth in H1 to 4.6 per cent.
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were gross buyers of equities worth Rs 55,806 crore and sellers of Rs 47,690 crore of shares till 29 November, a net inflow of Rs 8,116 crore.