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When planning for retirement, most investors try to split their assets between stocks (higher risk, higher return) and federal U.S. government bonds (lower risk, and these days, much lower return).

Today I’m going to take you inside an ignored corner of the market where you can still find cheap stocks throwing off quarterly dividends that grow 10%—and more—year in and year out.

How do you feel about the €13 billion (c.$14bn/£11bn) European Commission (EC) fine against Apple? Are you glad to see “justice done” to the alleged big multinational tax cheats? Do you care? Either way do you car...

Per-tonne steel realization for Sail shows an increase of just 0.5% over a year ago, but what saved the quarter was a decline in its raw material costs

The Sensex has rallied 25.5% since its Feb low, fuelled by $6.5 billion of portfolio flows

Relatively low volatility, attractive yields, improving fundamentals boost local currency against dollar

In other news, domestic air travel grew faster than global rate, launches of affordable housing nearly doubles

The Economic Survey proposed that the central bank's coffers should be used to recapitalize ailing nationalized banks

Cumulative railway revenue from April to August this year dropped 5%, the first fall in at least six years

Established tech giants and upstarts like Pure and Nimble Storage are fighting to bring flash memory to data centers.

Big biotech's need for growth is great news for small biotech companies, with firms such as Gilead Sciences shopping.

The spinning off of real-estate investment trusts from the financial sector comes at time when the prospects for other financial stocks are looking better.

A risk is insurable if it's out of your control, financially measurable and random in nature

Investors tend to match their asset allocation to volatility in markets, but financial advisers and distributors advise against it and suggest sticking to goal-based plans

Delhi-based Richa and Sandeep Agnihotri realised they needed help with their finances, and a conversation with close friends helped hiring the friends' planner

Iranians took the streets on Friday in protest against Saudi Arabia before Hajj, an annual pilgrimage for Muslims to Mecca, worsening already soured Iranian-Saudi relations, possibly making it even harder for OPEC to rea...

Iranians took the streets on Friday in protest against Saudi Arabia before Hajj, an annual pilgrimage for Muslims to Mecca, worsening already soured Iranian-Saudi relations, possibly making it even harder for OPEC to rea...

Iranians took the streets on Friday in protest against Saudi Arabia before Hajj, an annual pilgrimage for Muslims to Meca, worsening already soured Iranian-Saudi relations, possibly making it even harder for OPEC to reac...