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To curb the bankers’ proclivity to delay the passage of benefits of RBI’s policy rate cuts to the customers, RBI has now asked the banks to link the base rate with the MCLR with effect from April 1, 2018. Read on to know more...

The intra-day crash of 1,600 points in the Dow Jones on February 5 and the more than 1,200 points opening gap in the Sensex on February 6 left the investors gasping for breath, literally. The prime accused seem to be high inflation and the rising yields on US T-bills. 

The imposition of 10 per cent tax on LTCG exceeding Rs 1 lakh made from the sale of stock and equity mutual fund units held for over one year implies that the benefit of holding the stocks and mutual fund units for a year or more will not be available from April 1, 2018, onwards. However, ULIPs are exempted from LTCG tax. Let's us check how they compare against ELSS...

Tracking error is a measure to analyse index funds. The basic premise of investing into index funds is to achieve the returns which are commensurate to that of the targeted benchmark Index. An Index Fund is a mutual fund scheme that invests in the stocks which constitute benchmark index by replicating the weightage given to the securities on the benchmark.

The three exchanges, NSE, BSE, MSEI in consultation with the Finance Ministry and SEBI decided to terminate the data sharing licenses given to foreign exchanges. This data is used to enabled foreign exchanges settle trade at their end. Read on to how more...