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Cigarette sales are holding up better in China than in many markets, but that's no reason for investors to continue to puff on Hong Kong-listed China Tobacco International.

"In colonial times, when land was not worth much and banks didn't exist, most lending was based on human property."

Cryptocurrency traders should follow closely the US-China trade war.

Wayne Himelsein, one of my best managers, closed the month nicely positive, up about 1.9%. Wayne does well in volatile markets. Today, I asked him to explain why he bought Estee Lauder to illustrate how volatility figure...

Forget the trade war noise.

Industry representatives have been flagging off the alarming issues which have compelled the government machinery to act upon with fiscal corrective measures due for a long time.The liquidity infusion amount to HFCs has ...

Tax returns filed on the final date surged 41% to 4.9 mn filings in 2019-20 assessment year from a year ago.There has been a sharp increase in filing returns closer to and on the due date, thus leading to 56.5 mn returns...

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture-capital firm known for early investments in companies including Facebook, is putting up a fight against Washington's cryptocurrency crackdown

As personal loans come with high interest rates, continuous default will put you on a downward spiral.Here are some personal loan rates and other costs of the top private and public sector banks in India

Govt and some private employers pay a compensation against certain unutilized leaves during your service or after retirement or resignation.Leaves encashed at the time of retirement or resignation are fully exempt for go...

Being a market-linked product, returns are based on the performance of the fund that you choose.Here is a breakdown of the performance of different funds of the private-sector NPS

Gold ETFs invest in physical gold, and gold MFs invest in gold ETFs. The taxation, exemption rules are the same as for physical gold.If you hold your gold bond investment till maturity, any capital gains would be exempt ...

Unsustainable initial 'deep discounts' are typically meant to tap into behavioural biases that people have.Once lured in by initial discounts, people might stay because they're simply unwilling to make the effort to swit...

The peak filing rate per second was at 196 ITRs and peak filing rate per minute was at 7,447 ITRs, while peak filing rate per hour was at 387,571 ITRs.In July, the government extended the deadline by one month to 31 Augu...

The stock market is near all-time highs, but has gone nowhere for 19 months. The bond market is pushing government bond yields toward or below zero. I can't help but make the analogy between the shifting winds and interm...

Presently, the credit card segment is dominated by the US-based payment gateways like Visa and Mastercard.RuPay is the first-of-its-kind domestic debit and credit card payment network of India developed by National Payme...

Come December, numerous everyday items will be slapped with a 15% tariff, making them more costly here in the states. Buy these items now before the December round of tariffs go into effect.

Under SBI's repo-linked home loan, the interest rate is linked to RBI's policy rate.Interest rate on this SBI home loan product helps in immediate transmission of RBI's rate cuts to borrowers

Under new income tax laws, aggregate cash withdrawal beyond a certain threshold in a year from banks, post offices will attract TDS.For TDS calculation from income tax perspective, while buying a property, the buyer has ...