'There is a huge tax differential of 15% to 20% depending on income classification.'
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
The Street had factored in the NDA win, owing to which the appreciation in the rupee is expected to be limited
Dalal Street is bullish on invest
Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
Bank shares were the top losers along with index heavyweight RIL
'The market position from here on is expected to go up'.
Even Delhi does not have a full-time registrar of chits.
Above normal monsoon forecast and strength in Asian equities lifted sentiments.
If you looked back at 2018 and had to give it a name, the Year of Limitations might be the most accurate.
By 2020, we should have some 10 listed sports companies, with one or two big enough to be on the Sensex
Movement of rupee and crude oil prices will also dictate the trend
The stock exchange does not store and display the numbers of investors. That would be like a bank publishing the details of its customers for everyone to see.
Slow pace of reforms in India is disappointing: Faber
Crisis of growth is worsened by the challenging global environment and policy missteps. Returning to 9 per cent growth trajectory will be a tall order.
Investors cheered a sharp decline in the Current Account Deficit, which stands at a 4 year low as exports picked up and gold imports reduced.
Global markets could correct 5-10 per cent. If that happens, Indian markets will correct about 10 per cent
Concluding the three-part series, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta says that the black money law is likely to fail because of the ineptness of India's investigative and enforcement agencies.
Emerging markets and Asia may be first in the firing line
'Tilting at the Government in English in front of India may make him feel like Joan of Arc, but without a feel for Bharat he will merely be Don Quixote,' says S Muraleedharan, former managing director, BNP Paribas.
Indian business, on quite a different trajectory from its global counterpart, remains relatively insulated from any kind of backlash.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation where he announced the demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes with effect from midnight on November 8-9.
'It is vital that objects such as the Harihara -- and collections from South Asia generally -- remain here,' the British Museum tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
The most immediate cause of worry is the recent volatility in foreign exchange markets, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tells the Assocham annual general meeting.
Indian economy about to take-off
Keep exit plans handy, D-day could be the second week of August, writes Sonali Ranade in Market Notes.
It is important to understand that debt investors are a conservative lot and, in general, most such investments are hedged out of foreign exchange risk to simply earn an arbitrage profit, rather than carry the risk to possibly increase their yield.
Sanjay Mathur, managing director and head of economics research for Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), Royal Bank of Scotland, tells Business Standard that in the emerging market pack, India needs to learn lessons from Korea and Taiwan, which have managed their economic situations well.
For one thing, US Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was perhaps right in postponing the quantitative easing taper even though the markets had complained at that time that they were primed for some reduction in QE3 and the Fed had missed an opportunity to execute their plans without causing too much of a flutter.
This Budget plans for an increase to 10.3% of GDP from 9.9%.
"The poor will not suffer disproportionately due to bouts of sharp inflation, and the middle class will not see its savings eroded," Raghuram Rajan said.
Bhendi Bazaar faces a fairytale future as the Dawoodi Bohras initiate a Rs 3,000-crore project to change it from a squalid marketplace to a swanky neighbourhood, says Ranjita Ganesan
A look at the life and times of maverick businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran
Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.
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