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Options – Buying vs Selling

Perumal Raja

In this article, we will guide you on when one should be buying options or selling options. What are the factors that affect the option price? Well, there are 3…Continue Reading

Equity Markets near an all-time high. But why did Little Albert cry?

Arun Kumar

Pavlov’s Dogs: In the 1980’s Russian psychologist, Ivan Pavlov was researching salivation in dogs in response to being fed. He predicted that the dogs would salivate in response to the…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Views: 2018 – taking stock of markets and economy

Vidya Bala

‘So much has happened but nothing has changed’. This will describe the performance of the equity and debt market in 2018. 2018 was a year of much activity in companies…Continue Reading

First quarter earnings show broad-based growth

Mutual Fund Research Desk

Our analysis of the June quarter results for the NSE Nifty 500 companies suggests positive earnings growth across sectors barring banks. Excluding banks, revenue for 464 out of the 500…Continue Reading

Explaining GST and its impact (Part I)

Bhavana Acharya

Over a decade after it was first proposed, a single indirect tax rate and structure for India is very close to fruition, in the form of the Goods and Services…Continue Reading

GST – A tax without boundaries

Vidya Bala

August 3, 2016 will go down in history as India’s watershed moment with reforms. It saw the birth of one of the biggest indirect tax reforms in India; perhaps the…Continue Reading

Of market crashes and recovery

Lakshmeenarasimhan S

With Brexit taking centre stage in world markets, we ran a check on how Indian markets reacted to various crises in the last two decades and how the recovery was.…Continue Reading

Brits exit EU. Time for you to enter markets

Vidya Bala

The markets have reacted sharply to Britain’s vote of exiting the European Union. As the uncertainty on how and when the exit will be planned and its impact on UK…Continue Reading

Don’t fear the Rajan blues

Vidya Bala

Rock star Raghuram Rajan (or R3 as Subramanian Swamy likes to call him), may cause Monday Market Blues with his letter announcing his impending exit from the Central Bank. Short-term,…Continue Reading