If you have received a Diwali gift from your employer, you may be required to pay gift tax on it. But not all recipients of festive gifts are required to pay gift tax.

With the depreciation in rupee and the downtrend in the equity markets, investing in offshore funds has become lucrative.

Investors are often confused between value investing and growth investing. There are fundamental differences between these two strategies of investing. Let us try to understand the differences between the two and what they entail for the investors.

The Modi government is now at loggerheads with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) over transfer of the central bank’s reserves to the government. 

If you are unable to pay up even after six months, the lender will give you a two-month grace period to pay up your overdue loan instalments. But if you are still unable to pay the instalments during the grace period, the bank will start recovery proceedings against you.

The stocks most likely to witness significant movement on the bourses are Natco Pharma, Hindustan Aeronautics, Reliance Industries, Amara Raja and Indian Bank.

Indian Cements reported its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. The company's standalone revenue for the quarter Q2FY19 came in at Rs. 1,387.05 crore as against Rs. 1,268.26 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, registering 9.4 per cent YoY increase.

Gold once considered as the most prized asset of retail investors is losing its sheen and equity MF is emerging as the preferred investment vehicle.

Following stocks are close to their 52-week low as at 12.37 p.m. on November 9, 2018.

The markets on November 9, 2018 opened positive. BSE Sensex is trading at 35,210.50, Down by 27.18 points and the Nifty is trading at 10,600.10, up by 1.70 points.