Plus a few other aspects of grooming

Women’s hair-dressing has been around for ages. Now men’s hair-dressing has also ‘come of age’. Many in the corporate world go to expensive hair-dressers, and have their hair ‘coiffured’. There is the ‘standing up’ hair look and the ‘pasted down’ look and many others. The question is: are these hair-dos appropriate for the corporate environment and in...

How to deal with rising interest rates on home loans? For one, don’t panic and shift to a fixed-rate loan

The five-year borrowing frenzy  - when home loan rates at under 7% were at their lowest ever - has decisively ended. It is now trauma time. After seven interest rate hikes in less than two years (a 4% increase), middle class borrowers are realising the full horror of floating rate loans...

Is the great Indian growth story losing air? What are the reasons for and the effects of RBI’s tight money policy? Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal explore

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is concerned that inflation has been well above its target 5% for too long and feels the need to contain it. It has been tightening money supply and nudging interest rates upwards for the past six months....