What has a statistical tool called multivariate analysis got to do with understanding where the stock market is headed, asks Debashis Basu

In the last issue, I initiated the thought that very little seems to have changed in the world of stock markets. Over the past 300 years of stock trading, there has not been much change in the main market elements: the issuers, instruments and reasons why...

In 300 years of human evolution, stock markets lagged behind other streams of activity. This awareness helps one to make successful investments, says Debashis Basu

When you buy a call option of Tisco, you are buying a financial instrument that has been in use for centuries of a company that is 90 years old, making a product that in some form or the other has been used by human beings for...

“Earnings will be good and therefore stocks will go up”. The market trashes this kind of facile short-term punditry of media and brokers time and again. But few investors seem to be bothered

For weeks before the earnings’ season began, the entire media, especially the television media, has been peddling the view how the market direction will be set by the nature of corporate earnings. This...