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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : The order of investment returns can significantly affect the final portfolio outcome, even if the long-term average return remains the same—this is called sequence of returns risk. It is most relevant during periods when an investor is adding to or withdrawing from a portfolio, rather than simply holding a lump sum.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Market failure is a prickly idea in economics. It exists in theory, is acknowledged in textbooks and is occasionally invoked in policy debates, but it sits uneasily with the profession’s deeper instincts.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s foreign exchange rules governing trade have long evolved through a patchwork of regulations, circulars and banking practices, especially as services exports expanded rapidly alongside goods trade. That structure has now been reset.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Supreme Court judgement in the case of Tiger Global’s tax liability has, contrary to expectations, gone against the assessee and in favour of India’s revenue authorities. The brief facts are as follows.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The Union Budget for FY27 is unlikely to deliver major changes to income tax law.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NUUK, Greenland—If President Trump acquired Greenland, he would find himself in charge of a slow-growing economy heavily reliant on more than $1 billion of annual government subsidies and powered largely by sales of shrimp. The world’s largest island is prized by the U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IF AMERICA’S stockmarket crashes, it will be one of the most predicted financial implosions in history. Everyone from bank bosses to the IMF has warned about the stratospheric valuations of America’s tech companies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As people enter their 50s, financial priorities often undergo a quiet but decisive shift—from chasing returns to safeguarding what has already been built. With fewer working years left and retirement drawing closer, stability, liquidity and risk management take centre stage.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A good cover letter marries an applicant’s CV to the demands of the job. It helps employers identify promising candidates, particularly those with an employment history that is orthogonal to their career ambitions.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Parliament in December cleared the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025, which has removed a long-standing procedural hurdle in inheritance by deleting Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925. The change means that beneficiaries in Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata no longer have to mandatorily get a probate and can now act on a valid Will.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The dream of working hard to retire early is eroding as higher costs of living cut into savings and frothy valuations leaves portfolios vulnerable to market dives. The concept of saving to retire early, or FIRE, an acronym for “Financially Independent, Retire Early," has evolved as a result, as adherents salt away more money and prepare for volatility in future markets.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Signalling a recalibration of India’s quality control regime, the Centre has withdrawn a total of 49 quality control orders (QCOs), according to an 8 January communication to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The recent decision of Indian Railways (IR) to raise fares on all classes of travel, other than suburban rail, season passes and short-distance second-class ordinary, reflects a dilemma that has long dogged IR and underpinned its fare decisions: Should IR be run as a commercial enterprise, albeit state-owned, or as a departmental undertaking with social objectives placed above profit?Historically, all governments, both before and after India’s 1991 embrace of market principles, have veered towards the latter view. Sadly, political calls have shaped almost everything about IR, including track expansion, stops along routes and, of course, train fares. Fare revisions have always had a populist angle.

There’s more to dense fog conditions than pollution and flight cancellations. There’s also the risk of power outages.In fact, a perfect storm may be brewing across several parts of north and central India, where a rain-deficient winter, dense fog conditions and atmospheric pollution have raised concerns over the tripping of power transmission lines, said three people aware of the outage concerns in India’s power system.Fog increases moisture on power transmission lines, allowing pollutants in the air to settle on their surface.

NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is weighing a plan to provide credit guarantee cover to funds that NBFCs raise from banks and ramp up their microfinance operations, according to two people familiar with the development.The proposed one-time credit guarantee scheme will help non-banking financial company-microfinance institutions (NBFC-MFIs) access funds from banks easily and tide over a liquidity crunch in maintaining their lending to low-income households that lack access to traditional banking.The guarantee cover under consideration will be larger than the ₹7,500 crore cover that was offered during the pandemic. The new scheme is likely to be managed by the state-run National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company, which will cover and underwrite the lending risk to NBFC-MFIs arising due to factors outside the control of small borrowers.This will help NBFC-MFIs to draw funds on easier terms from financial institutions.

pulses was 926 kg per hectare as against a global average of 1,015 kg in FY25, the country’s cotton yield was 440 kg per hectare compared with a global average of around 820 kg during the period. India produced 25.6 million tonnes of pulses and 29.7 million bales of cotton in FY25, way below the country's domestic demand.As per the agriculture ministry's annual report for FY25, pulses were cultivated over 27.52 million acres, while cotton covered 13 million hectares across the country.“These new seed varieties will strengthen our pest and disease management systems, and expand field trials to speed up adoption at the farm level.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] Centre is shaping a wider and more deliberate standards strategy for 2026, moving to realign Quality Control Orders (QCOs) with actual testing and laboratory capacity while easing friction with key trading partners.

Forecasts aren’t prophecy—they offer a glimpse into market sentiment. Our New Year special asks experts not for perfect numbers, but how they interpret the economy and the world around them—and how that shapes their money moves. The message is clear: discipline beats prediction. Stay invested. Stay diversified. Here’s how that thinking is shaping their approach to 2026, and what’s likely to keep their sectors busy.My plan stays boring yet effective: keep SIPs going in diversified equity/hybrids, maintain a proper cash buffer in liquid/ultra-short debt, and rebalance instead of reacting.

Stock market recap: The Indian stock market witnessed healthy cross-segment buying on the last day of 2025, driven by short covering triggered by optimism that the coming year will be better than the current one, due to anticipated earnings growth, a potential India-US trade deal, and the return of foreign investors to the Indian market.The Sensex jumped 546 points, or 0.64%, to close at 85,220.60, with Reliance Industries, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Axis Bank as the top contributors to the gains. The Nifty 50 settled at 26,129.60, rising 191 points, or 0.74%.