Is there a correction in home loan interest rates, or is it just an off-season blip?
Before you sign on the dotted line, ask your home-loan provider a few tough questions.
It is important to ask the right questions before deciding where to put your savings.
Be very careful while opting for the rate of interest for personal loans.
Home loans: Take a mix of fixed and floating rates, if your risk appetite is low.
When Dhirubhai Ambani entered with his big bang public offer the foundation for the Indian stock market was laid.
The commodity futures market has started losing its sheen after a stupendous growth rate of 96.05 per cent in the last financial year
Traders said it is unusual that the grey market is active even after the issue subscription has closed. DLF grey-market shares were priced at Rs 525 per share.
The market regulator decided to set up an investor protection fund. It also approved delisting guidelines, regulation of investment advisors and the consent order scheme.
While a scheme allowing short-selling of securities is expected to come into force from July, exchanges and depositories are finalising a mechanism for lending and borrowing of securities, without which the scheme cannot be implemented.
For the elderly, the need for health insurance is much higher. Getting it, however, is not that simple.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala of RARE Enterprises, a high-profile investor, talks to Business Standard on the state of the secondary market and the hype around IPOs.
Early onset of monsoon has raised the hopes of rainwear manufacturers. Wholesalers have already started stocking and they expect good demand despite rising prices of rainwear products.
Critical illness policies by life insurance companies provide a variety of combinations but have a complex fine print.
Dinesh Thakkar, MD, Angel Broking, explains in an interview that retail investors' participation in the equity market is falling, but the share of organized players in broking business is increasing.
The department of consumer affairs is planning to put a ceiling on the stake that a single domestic investor can hold in a commodity exchange.
Open an overseas account with the click of a mouse, invest in the Nikkei/Hang Seng, buy property in Dubai
The US-based Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is planning to pick up 5 per cent stake in the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The story began with the BSE board selling 5 per cent of its equity each to Frankfurt-based Deutsche Boerse AG (the world's biggest stock exchange in terms of market capitalisation) and the Singapore Exchange at Rs 5,200 per share.
Damani suggests that one should keep 10-15 per cent of your portfolio value in cash as it is a good hedge in volatile markets
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