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Word of the day: ParsimoniousParsimonious means overly frugal or stingy. A parsimonious person hesitates to spend even when necessary. This word highlights reluctance t...
'Earning Rs 4 lakh a month but not happy': 32-year-old entrepreneur says on paper everything looks successful, but...A 32-year-old entrepreneur earning Rs 4.1 lakh monthly admitted on Reddit that financial success hasn't brought happiness, feeling empty de...
Build retirement corpus or fund child’s education?Encourage the child to take partial responsibility with an education loan.
Dividend payouts by banks may take a hit“There is no regulatory direction curtailing the dividend payment by banks from FY2021 profits. But given the increased uncertainty on asse...
IBC process faces new challenges as some winners look to wriggle outLast week Ramkrishna Forgings, the winning bidder for bankrupt automotive components maker Acil Ltd, wrote to lenders seeking renegotiation...
Are you a saver or a miser? Read this to judge yourselfThe stingy deny themselves little pleasures only to feed their need to hoard money. The end result can only be sheer misery.
$2b not enough, Mr Sikka, Infosys needs to be a lot more generousInfosys may not be a growth stock any more, but the tech titan needs to be a lot more generous if it's to be considered a dividend play.
Sensex falls 131 pts; Nifty below 9,200; IndiGo rallies 6%, Divi's Lab 5%; USL tanks 6%Auto major Tata Motors (up 1.51 per cent) emerged the top performer on the index while IT behemoth Infosys (down 2.88 per cent) slumped the...
Meet Viral Acharya, RBI's new deputy governor with a music album to his nameThe 42-year old New York University professor has as much music compositions to his name as research papers on systemic financial risk.
Since 2015, RBI has cut rates by 150 bps but not much has reached youWith banks turning stingy in passing on RBI's rate cuts to consumers, rate of home loans has fallen by only 0.26 percentage point since 201...
Since January 2015, RBI has cut rates by 150 bps. Here's how little has reached youBetween December 2014 and June 2016, home loans dropped by just 0.26 per cent to 10.76 per cent in June 2016 from 10.50 per cent in Decembe...
Corporate borrowing cost see greater fall than home loans: RBICorporates' borrowing from shortest maturity commercial papers dipped to 6.54 per cent in June 2016 from 7.98 per cent during December 2014.
If an ad’s doing well, why change it: R S Sodhi, GCMMF (Amul)The utterly butterly deliciously witty Amul Girl hasn’t changed at all in the last 50 years. The polka-dotted girl remains an icon of sorts...
- 11 Siberian tigers starved to death after assult on keeper at China zoo
At least 11 Siberian tigers have died for want of food at the Shenyang Forest Wild Life Zoo, a private enterprise in northeast China's Liao...
- Climate funds are a worry for Bill Gates
Bill Gates, who has now taken to full time philanthropy, is worried that financial commitments being made by rich donor countries for clima...
Cash is not only king, it's strategicCompanies that manage cash and liquidity aggressively have a big advantage in facing headwinds.
- Banks demand cos' assets as collateral to fund buyouts
Gone are the days when corporates could coax banks into financing acquisitions by showing the strength of their balance sheets.