While buying shares of consumer products companies, keep an eye on their changing market share, says Shreedhar Kanetkar

When Gillette merged with consumer products giant, Procter & Gamble, James M Kilts, who ran Gillette from 2000 to 2004, made $175 million.
To those who wondered whether he deserved it, reassurance came from Warren Buffett, who, as custodian of Berkshire Hathaway’s 9.7% of...

What if your credit history has been wrongly reported by your bank?

Quite by accident, a senior banker with access to the defaulters’ database discovered that he had been reported as a defaulter to the Credit Information Bureau of India Limited (CIBIL). With help from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), he soon found out that a bank that had sent him an unsolicited personal loan had wrongly...

Dubai is a travellers’ delight and a marvel of human enterprise. Over the past 40 years, this backward desert outpost of Bedouin traders has been transformed into a glittering, ultra-modern city that is also safe and virtually crime-free with strict adherence to the rule of law. It is a melting pot of people from every part of the world including Indians, East Asians, Russians and Europeans....