If you want to be a serious investor, start with a serious study of market history. It will surprise you how risky equities are, says Debashis Basu

In the third week of May, thousands of housewives, college students and new part-time traders felt a rude shock. As the Sensex collapsed by over 2500 points over 10 days, there was bewilderment and panic all round. 'What was wrong? Why was the...

There is a desperate rush to raise money through IPOs to fund huge business leaps. In the past, this has led to major disappointments

One of the enduring ironies is that companies need to raise money to grow but the moment they do that, performance and stock prices take a beating. This is so because when capital-raising is easy, companies plan a huge leap over their current operations and...

Earnings determine a stock's value, right? Yes, but here is a surprising twist...

We are in the middle of earnings season. According to MoneyLIFE's model, earnings momentum is one of the three key elements of equity valuation. The commonest way to link earnings to price is to use P/E, which is derived by dividing a company's price per share by its earnings per share. If a company has a P/E of...