Buffett asks shareholders to ignore his profit figure. Then explains how he could fake itThe rule is simple and almost nobody thinks about it. When a business sours, the accounts mark it down. When a business thrives, the accoun...
03 Sep, 2026, 11.21 PM IST
Best large cap mutual funds to invest in September 2026According to the Sebi mandate, the large cap mutual funds are mandated to invest in top 100 companies by market capitalisation. Large compa...
03 Sep, 2026, 09.28 AM IST
Quote of the day by Bernard Baruch: "Not even the “safest” investment is without some risk and some element of speculation"Bernard Baruch’s investing wisdom highlights that no asset is completely risk-free. Even conservative investments face inflation, interest-...
02 Sep, 2026, 04.53 PM IST
Best mutual fund SIP portfolios to invest in September 2026ETMutualFundslaunched its recommended mutual fund portfolios to invest through SIPs in October 2016. Since then, we have been closely monit...
01 Sep, 2026, 01.47 PM IST
Quality Stock Investing: 8 mistakes that can ruin your portfolio and how to avoid themBuilding a portfolio of high-quality companies requires more than simply identifying good businesses. Lawrence A. Cunningham’s quality-inve...
30 Aug, 2026, 01.37 PM IST
Low apple crop, rising input costs leave Himachal growers worried despite firm prices; traders report lossesHimachal Pradesh apple growers face a difficult season with reduced production. Erratic weather severely impacted fruit setting, leading to...
29 Aug, 2026, 08.47 PM IST
HDFC Bank CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan set to retire: Finance manager 'Sashi' who rose to corner officeHDFC Bank CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan will not seek reappointment after his term ends this October. He conveyed this decision to the board desp...
29 Aug, 2026, 08.44 PM IST
The most expensive half-sentence in market history, and Warren Buffett wrote the other halfHe wrote it as a caution. Somebody published just one half of it. A great many investors acted on the half they were shown. Warren Buffett ...
27 Aug, 2026, 11.08 PM IST
ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Part 73: The customer pays slowly. The machines depreciate slowly tooThe title of this series sounds binary. The businesses rarely are. Between a multibagger and bankruptcy lies a large middle ground where co...
26 Aug, 2026, 10.08 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here's how it imploded.Meta considered cutting some teams by as much as 60% under an AI-driven restructuring plan, Reuters reported. The company ultimately cut 10...
26 Aug, 2026, 04.19 PM IST
Employee requests salary raise after years of unpaid extra work. What happened next revealed the ugly side of office politics. 'Boss told me I could not succeed'An employee's experience has sparked a workplace debate after he said years of positive reviews and extra responsibilities were followed by...
25 Aug, 2026, 12.29 AM IST
Capital, technology and scale: The business blueprint for India’s critical-care futureCPR co-founders Dr Satya Garimella and Krishna Kottapalli discuss the business challenges of scaling critical-care infrastructure, from cap...
24 Aug, 2026, 11.59 AM IST
Stanford ran water beneath mirror-like rooftop panels; they cooled it 3–5°C below the surrounding air by sending heat into spaceResearchers at Stanford have created innovative panels that cool water exclusively using sunlight and mirrors. These panels effectively ref...
21 Aug, 2026, 01.00 PM IST
Why a value strategy in Nifty50 makes sense now: Chintan HariaValuation-aware weighting tends to help when leadership is narrow and a few stocks have run far ahead of their fundamentals, because it red...
21 Aug, 2026, 08.48 AM IST
Consultants of faulty detailed project reports culprits: Nitin Gadkari"Such poor quality DPR that today on road, 5 lakh accidents occur, and 1.8 lakh deaths, and all have problems of defective DPR," Gadkari sa...
20 Aug, 2026, 12.24 AM IST
In 2012, PacifiCorp launched a trap-and-haul program to move adult salmon upstream past Merwin Dam. 14 years later, researchers found 2 stages in the system but 1 decisive bottleneck: young salmon failing to find the artificial current downstreamA trap-and-haul program on Washington’s Lewis River helps adult Chinook salmon bypass Merwin Dam by transporting them in trucks to upstream...
20 Aug, 2026, 12.23 AM IST
India Inc clocks strongest revenue growth in 9 quarters; margins squeezed by rising costsIn the June quarter, Indian companies celebrated remarkable revenue growth, reaching a nine-quarter high. Despite this, profits grew by onl...
17 Aug, 2026, 12.17 PM IST