Most stock market investors would like to forget the year 2011. This is the year when realisation dawned that the Indian economy was not immune to what happened in the outside world. The year has seen

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 parti

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.

The government is finally admitting that inflation is a problem that is likely to stay with us for some time and that it expects relief only by 2013. But the government also chooses to tell us that the ‘real’ interest rate is ‘positive’. Yes, if we believe

The festive season has a close association with money. Some get bonuses and plan for investments after they have spent what they have to. Some borrow to meet habitual festive spending.

Gold rose 58 times from $19 in 1900 to touch $1,110 in 2010, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 172 times from $61 in 1900 to $10,500 in 2010.

Income funds or bond funds have given you returns of between six to ten per cent per annum compounded, over a five-year period. The one year returns have been betwe-en six and eight per cent and the t