Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman tabled Union Budget 2019-20 today. This is her first budget under Secord term of Modi Led NDA Government. The budget was a balanced one keeping in mind that it was an election year. Following are the key announcem

The capital markets have normally looked forward to the budget quite eagerly. Nani Palkhivala had famously said that “India was the only country where the budget was an event”. For the capital markets, the budget still remains the biggest event.

Sensex was launched in 1986 and its base year refers to April 01st 1979. What exactly is this Sensex, which has emerged as a barometer of the Indian stock market performance as well as a signal of the health of the Indian economy? Check out the 1 yea

When King Ptolemy asked the great mathematician, Euclid, for a simpler approach to geometry, Euclid responded, “Your Highness, there is no royal road to geometry”. What was said about geometry many centuries ago is equally applicable to s

After three phases of the Election - 2019, the fate of 302 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha is sealed. The remaining seats shall see voting in four more phases over the next few weeks. The Nifty and the Sensex have scaled to new highs ahead of the 2

Trading unlike investing appears to be a high risk game and quite often it is. There is no tested method of earning higher returns in trading and it comes with practice in the live market environment. While there is nothing foolproof, here are five t

Nifty is the short form for the NSE Fifty and as the name suggests it consists of the 50 most active and liquid stocks in the Indian markets. Unlike the Sensex which uses 1979 as the base year, the Nifty uses 1995 as the base year since the NSE itsel

The first indications of the slowdown in growth were already there when the August policy was announced but there have been a lot of critical data points that came out post the August policy which hint at pressure on growth. GDP growth for June quart

If you have an online demat account and an online trading account, you are all set to trade in equities. However, the best of traders and investors are always tested in challenging market conditions. It is one thing to react to risks like an industri

The common refrain about investing is that it is a long process hence you must not focus too much on short term returns. But, as Keynes said, in the long run we are all dead and therefore you need to look at short term returns too. Not all goals are

What exactly do we understand by an all-weather portfolio? Obviously, portfolios are supposed to be dynamic and keep changing with the times. But there is a larger approach which is called the all-weather approach. In this approach you take a long te

Buying or investing in equities is not just about doing the right thing but a lot more about not doing the wrong things. Quite often, we tend to be conditioned by some ingrained practices from the past and that in turn impacts our investment decision