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Our third annual Summer Stock Picking Contest begins. Fast-growing gym chain Planet Fitness depends on a constant supply of flabby customers and is priced for unit growth that could take a hit in a downturn.

If you are around 60 years old, you should read this. The single biggest threat to retirement dreams of late-career investors today is the habit of relying too much on traditional approaches to stock market investing. Th...

The plunge in bullish sentiment in last week's American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey dropped it to the lowest level since last December. Does that mean that stocks should be bought or is there someth...

Colombia's peso is in trouble, again. Against the U.S. dollar, the peso has shed 20% of its value in a little more than a year and 7% in the last month. It's time for the government to officially dump the peso and give C...

In a bizarre nation that likes to borrow pages from Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges books and turn them into real life, it has now become cool to be a Peronist in Argentina.

Life insurance is not about investing your money to earn a return on it, it's about financial protection for your loved ones

Here are some of the lowest personal loan interest rates offered by various banks

Transmission of rates has been taking place and will continue to take place going forward.Deposit rates will fall at a slower pace as a result of competition against small savings rates, coupled with higher credit growth...

While there is little clarity on how the situation will pan out, there are problems of illiquidity and remote management, especially in a region like J&K.There is potential for real estate to see growth in Jammu and Kash...

You can control your returns to an extent if you look into the risks involved in investing

BlackRock is poised to become the largest shareholder of Authentic Brands, the company that owns brands including Sports Illustrated and Nine West, in the first deal for the investment giant's new private-equity fund.

As breakup fees fall out of favor in the U.K., bidding companies have increasingly started seeking promises from the biggest shareholders of a target company to support the deal, pledges known as "irrevocables." And shar...

Wall Street's obsession with Trump's raging trade wars has been briefly interrupted by a new apparent, if still comfortingly faint, systemic risk to the global economy: The prospect of an utlra-nationalist right-wing gov...

Cycles are carrying gold higher into September...here is why.

A key market barometer of the risk of future recessions is sounding its loudest warning since April 2007, months before the start of the last financial crisis. Investors and analysts are debating how to interpret the sig...

After the redevelopment of a property, if the owner gets either a share in the redeveloped property or cash or both, his gain is a taxable capital gain.At the time of receipt of possession in 2008, the transaction was su...

A steep slide in U.S. government-bond yields last week wrong-footed investors and left some pondering what was once unthinkable: whether interest rates in America could one day turn negative.

While Sebi has suggested some landmark changes, there are some big misses as well.As of now, public disclosure of performance and holdings is missing (on PMS websites), which makes it difficult to evaluate different PMS ...

You can control your returns to an extent if you look into the risks involved in investing

The price of the carbon-emission credits, doled out in Europe to polluting power plants and steel mills to curtail the production of greenhouse gases, has soared more than fivefold over the past two years.