Last week the Beirut Stock Exchange snapped its monotonous downward trend of the past few months, driven by relative political optimism on electing a president and the rumors about Bank Audi's merger. The BLOM Stock Index rose 1.7 percent from

Merrill Lynch recommended that emerging-market investors put Lebanese state Eurobonds at an "underweight" position in their portfolios for March, said a report in Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group. Merrill Lynch ranked Lebanon and Ukraine

India could help the global community find a solution to the adverse impact of climate change, Nobel laureate Al Gore said.

Buoyed by encouraging consumer response to its retail fuel outlets in India, global energy major Shell has decided to consolidate its presence in the southern part of the country as well as in the western regions.

India's largest, and easily the most glitzy, business networking event so far this year will conclude today at Reliance Industries' Jamnagar petrocomplex in Gujarat.

The volatility in the stock markets has taken a serious toll on the big corporates' wealth. With the turmoil, wealth of India's top 25 industrial houses shrank 24.1% to Rs 14,69,343 crore on March 14, 2008, from Rs 19,35,508 crore

The primary reason to change our objectives was to broaden our investment base. Earlier we would only buy oil and gas companies.

As part of a coordinated series of moves with four other central banks, the Fed lobbed more funding at the financial system, this time by allowing brokerages to swap newly hard-to-sell securities like mortgages for Treasuries that can easily be

Under section 145 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, certain accounting standards have been made mandatory while computing the taxable income.

Sebi's insistence on the standard mutual fund warning being read at normal speeds will reduce the attention people pay to the warning and therefore to mutual fund ads.

Income from futures and options is not treated as speculative any longer. Therefore, you may set off the loss from F&O against your normal income, including short-term capital gains. However, if the short-term capital gains arise from the sale of

Tremendous potential of its order book, increasing its product range, revenue generation of its MEP projects, and a sharper margins growth forms the basis of the investment argument for Voltas.

The intermediate downtrend gained momentum as markets continued to follow the global trends as the Sensex tested its low made on the January 22 and dipped below the same on an intra-day basis.

Gift is "something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favour towards someone". The practice of giving and receiving gifts possibly started with Adam and Eve.

Investors collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That's the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans' efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding

First of all, ING Vysya Private Banking offers a comprehensive, advisory-led platform, where the investment management program is driven on a holistic basis, factoring in the client's 'whole-wealth' situation, their family and business structure, applicable tax structures, financial objectives, and

When a person loses $7.2 billion of other people's money, other people naturally want to know more about him.

Dealing with an uncertain economy is never easy, especially for small businesses. Unlike their larger counterparts, small businesses rarely have the resources to monitor and take corrective action for every trend and issue. And even those owners who have weathered

A sleep study normally costs between $2500 and $4000. This has kept many people affected with sleep apnea away from getting the help they need. Although Express CPAP Supply has done it's part by offering CPAP machines for under $300,