Two advertisements that I saw on television recently set me thinking. The first one is an ad featuring the cricketer Yuvraj Singh. It was (to my observation) not selling life insurance but a wealth pl

R. Balakrishnan

As the Budget Day comes near, infrastructure beco-mes the buzzword for analysts, industry capitals and economists.
Though India has a long way to go in terms of building infrastructure, the government can’t afford to spend on its own as these projects take a long time to make money by themsel-ves. Often, the benefits that the project generates do not accrue to the project itself.

I have been going through a whole lot of research reports from sell-side brokers about their view on the markets for 2012. Of course, everyone is bullish on Indian equities. Various theories, plots an

At the outset, let me wish everyone the best for 2012. I feel that it is going to be a good year for investors. Hopefully during the year, most of the uncertainties that we have gone through will hav

I do not know if we are in a bear market in the ‘technical’ sense of the word. However, it does seem that people think so. In the last two to three years in the post-Lehman crisis period, retail participation in stock markets has been

The Greek PM was forced to leave his chair by his wayward countrymen who did not like to pay a price for having defaulted on national debt.

Out of the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) one of

“Markets must have equilibrium .. and the entanglement of emotions and logic must be minimised”: This is my eternally unfulfilled wish. The stock markets are doing what they do best. Fluctuate. Regard