Reliance Industries Ltd third quarterly profit decline is a worry but there is sequential improvement in profits.

The commodities exchange has achieved much in a short span. But its dependence on precious metals has also risen: gold and silver accounted for 49 per cent of the MCX's turnover in 2007 which rose to 63.7 per cent by 2011.

The man who controls more than a quarter of all assets traded in India eyes even greater dominance.

Analysts expect corporate profitability to grow around 10 per cent in the first quarter (April-June) of the current financial year. However, lower expectations could act as a cushion for the markets.

Even as global central banks go for rate cuts to boost economy, Reserve bank might wait for some promising steps from the government that could propel the central bank to take a rate-cut decision in its ensuing policy review on July 31.

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The Reserve Bank of India says the risks to the country's financial stability are on the rise due to sluggish growth, rising external sector vulnerability and deteriorating asset quality in the banking sector.

Many investor advisory firms say that intra-group amalgamations are often a ploy by promoters to stealthily enhance their control over and boost valuations of group companies - a charge vociferously denied by promoter groups.

In an uncertain economy, Suveen K. Sinha unearths boutique investment banks which are proving better at sealing deals than the big ones. It is not just the lower expenses that make them click with clients. All six that BT spoke to insisted that their clients loved them because they were always there for the clients.

Sebi Chairman UK Sinha says he plans to conduct asset management company inspections more intensely.

Minutes after the People's Bank of China cut its official rate by 25 basis points for the first time since 2008, Jonathan Garner, Chief Asian and Emerging Market Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley, shared his views on the implications of the euro zone's uncertainties.

In this podcast, BT's Rajiv Bhuva identifies sunrise sectorswhere stock investments might yield significant returns. 

Succumbing to inflation, RBI has left key rates unchanged after front loading a rate cut in April.

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Domestic gold prices have crossed Rs 30,000/10 grams despite international prices falling 14 per cent from its August 2011 high and thedeclining demand for the yellow metal.

Perhaps one of the biggest deterrents to whistleblowing about corruption in Indian companies is the fact that current laws do not guarantee protection of the whistle-blower's identity.

Former Trai chairman J S Sarma is unlikely to be flooded with greeting cards this Diwali from the industry he regulated for three years. He is equally unlikely to fret over it.

Sosyo, Gujarat's swadeshi soft drink, is a sprightly 89 years old, and it wants to be a national brand when it grows up.

Market intervention and current policy measures of the Reserve Bank of India might not rescue the currency's downward slide alone, even as analysts now say the rupee will slide even further to touch the 57-mark.

Oil imports are where a weak rupee hurts India the most. At $155.6 billion, oil accounted for nearly 32 per cent of total imports in 2011-12. A weak rupee increases the import bill and cancels out the benefit of any decline in global crude prices.