Pondering whether the recent fuel price hike was really necessary or cursing the government for hitting our pockets when inflation is already running high is an exercise in futility.

EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. It is used to analyse and compare profitability between companies.

A good broker isn't necessarily the one on who charges the least. Assess you broker for security of transaction and reliable advice as well.

Our fund manager books profits on a number of shares and will use the surplus cash to do some cherry picking in the small- and mid-cap sector.

We are over-researched in buying opportunities but selling expertise...well, our official stance is that we are invested for the longterm, so why bother?

Budget 2007 has proposed several measures to curb rising prices in agricultural products. Commodities trading also provides protection against inflation.

Fidelity India's director business development Suraj Kaeley unravels the myth of “can’t miss” investment strategies from this serious investor’s toolkit book.

To harness the potential of innovation, companies need to understand that innovation is a discipline, and one that - while integrative - still has specific and robust elements that can be embedded within organizations and practiced routinely.

The e-Choupal model of ITC has continuously evolved over the past decade, and today is a boon not just for farmers but for the consumer goods business of the tobacco major as well.

It's not just about launching new products. It's about executing path-breaking models that are both disruptive and sustainable. A look at the innovators who changed the rules of the game.

When a year has been as unbelievably good as 2009 was for the market, the New Year brings with it not just hope but also uncertainty. To quell investor anxiety, BT gets financial market experts to foretell how the different asset classes will fare in 2010.

As farmers graduate from mere cultivators to investors, it will change what they grow and what we eat.

While most Indian companies have yet to incorporate risk analysis in their businesses even after being hit by the slowdown, a handful has shown India Inc. why it’s essential to do so.

A clutch of CEOs resorted to pay cuts in a tough year. Not all head honchos, however, were in such a Spartan state of mind.

ITC is prototyping a new script for its e-Choupal initiative to take engagement with farmers to the next level-co-creating with farmers and harnessing their entrepreneurship.

Poor rains have damaged the summer crop in quantity and quality. As the monsoon whimsy continues, some intelligent government intervention could help save the winter crop.

Whether GST is implemented in 2010 or gets delayed further, the momentum seems to be building irreversibly towards its introduction. This would be by far the biggest story on the indirect tax front.

The new kid on the trading block that’s set to launch an equity and derivates platform is from Financial Technologies, which currently has in its stable India’s largest commodity futures exchange, the Multi-Commodity Exchange. It is giving competition to NSE, which is gearing up to deal with the commodities bourse major. Rachna M. Koppikar reports.

Calcined petroleum coke may sound esoteric, but not for Rain Commodities, which has emerged as the world’s largest producer of this raw material.

The pioneer of organised retail is counting on “conscious consumption”—rather than “conspicuous consumption”—to see his group through the slowdown.