What is ISIN?

ISIN or International Securities Identification Number is a 12 character alpha-numeric code that uniquely identifies a security, across the ...

20-20 rule in stock selection? Interesting!

ET has this interesting article on stock selection in a bearish/bullish market . The idea it churns out is something like this. When the mar...

SEBI makes IPOs more transparent

The Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI, issued a new investor protection guideline that prevents companies doing IPO from sharing ...

Now Interest Rate Futures can be traded in National Stock Exchange

After a gap of six years, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India re-launched trading in Interest Rate Futures. This will give the invest...

SEBI mandates Rs. per share dividend declaration

In a good move, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI, has asked listed companies to declare dividends on a per share basis rathe...

The Stock Markets may be on Recovery

The Indian Stock Markets have performed promisingly well in the last few weeks. Though the performance wasn’t an all-round one comprising ma...

How does Short Term Capital Gain/Loss work?

I found this interesting snippet circulated through email by ICICIDirect, which describes in simple anecdotes how Short Term Capital Gain/Lo...

Investing in times of recession

One of the reasons why the stock markets are taking time to comeback is the lack of ‘investible’ money in the hands of people. Most of the m...