What are the options for an investor who wants to protect his capital and simultaneously earn decent returns?

Market conditions have changed dramatically. For the conservative investor, returns are looking poor. Stocks have run up rapidly, with scarcely an opportunity for any investor to get in. Fixed income returns are diminishing as the government pushes banks to reduce lending rates...

What are the options for an investor who wants to protect his capital and simultaneously earn decent returns?

In the week before the election results were announced, most investors were on the sidelines. Some large brokerages actually enticed their clients to place bets that markets would slip after the election results. However, to everybody’s surprise, the ballot boxes threw up a surprise...

Manipulation in the derivatives segment is easy. Time to make a few changes

Single-stock futures create room for enormous manipulation. The National Stock Exchange (NSE), which dominates the futures market, does not care because it gives the NSE handsome revenues. Everyone except the regulator can smell it, but the regulator has a perpetual nose block.

Price manipulation starts...