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As a rule, business leaders like to be surrounded by senior and junior executives who tell them what they want to hear rather than voice dissenting opinions.

Spot gold prices were down 0.4% at $1,225.42 per ounce by 8.56am. On Wednesday, they touched their highest since 11 November at $1,244.6

Experts say that it is unlikely that other fund houses will start cutting expense ratios in their equity funds

The local currency opened at 66.83 a dollar and touched a high of 66.82, a level last seen on 10 November 2016

Constant rise in non-ferrous metals prices has been driving the BSE Metal Index in the last quarter of 2016 boosted by Trump's stress on higher infrastructure spend in the US

In other news, Lupin plans to build a portfolio of specialty products for the US market through acquisitions in areas of women's health, pediatrics and neurology

Air India has such high levels of debt that the value of its equity is most likely to be negative, or zero at best

The December quarter's fresh order pool at ABB India of Rs5,628 crore was a record 173% higher than a year ago

Expedia missed earnings expectations but its 2016 fiscal year performance was bolstered by the success of two recent acquisitions: Orbitz Worldwide and vacation rental platform HomeAway.

The resignation of Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve's de facto head of bank regulation, is another step forward for the Trump administration's plan to ease rules for Wall Street. It will also give the new administrati...

But for ugly bad loan ratios, two heartening numbers at SBI are the sequential reduction in stressed assets ratio to 9.54% and a fall in credit costs to 1.92%

Ford and other auto makers could see their profits drop in 2017 as a glut of used cars comes to market. The number of cars whose leases expired in 2016 increased by 33% and that figure is further expected to increase to ...

Facebook started testing advertisements in videos on its platform and introduced a revenue sharing model similar to that of YouTube. From a commercial perspective Facebook is looking to broadcast more high quality videos...

Investors think President Donald Trump's tough talk on trade will fan inflation. But if anything, so far, it has exerted a cooling effect on prices.

Nineteenth-century writer Frédéric Bastiat, in his classic "Broken Window" parable, warned that economic thinking requires us to see what isn't happening as well as what is.

The percentage of individual investors describing their short-term market outlook as "neutral" is at its highest level since the election, according to the AAII Sentiment Survey. Pessimism fell, while optimism bounced ba...

Navinder Singh Sarao a.k.a 'Flash Crash Trader' made big money trading futures from his bedroom--then lost it all

There are two ways to get big dividends: you can buy stocks that boast high current yields, or you can buy stocks that consistently grow their payouts.

This is the struggling retailer's latest bid to stay afloat.

Possible cost savings in the proposed Reckitt Benckiser-Mead Johnson deal offer little reassurance to investors.

In our new rank based on the most recent short interest data, Visa Inc (NYSE: V) has taken over the position of #2 most shorted Dow component, from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) which is now in the #3...

In our new rank based on the most recent short interest data, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has taken over the position of #6 most shorted Dow component, from Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) which is now in the #7 sp...