When it comes to telecom companies, the only way that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will ever be able to stop them from bilking customers through shoddy systems and dubious tricks is to hand out exemplary penalties that force them to clean up their systems and billing methods. Individual complaints about mobile phone billing are so numerous that they can only be discussed in...

These stocks have bucked the cascading fall. Are they worth buying? Debashis Basu and Shailendra Lotlikar analyse

The climate for stocks couldn’t be worse: high crude prices, political flux, stalled reforms in a pre-election year, poor governance (subsidies, write-offs and pay rises for government employees), rising inflation, escalating interest rates, a dramatically widening balance of...

A down move may start soon taking the Sensex to 12,200                                                                                                             

In the previous issue, I had mentioned that the current environment is best suited for playing the short swings. I had suggested that from now on, we would find the market moving down one day and up two days and vice versa. Or,...