• What Return Can Investors In India ETFs Expect?

  By Shiv Kapoor : Over the long term the Indian markets represented by the Sensex can be expected to deliver an annualized return of 12.75%. This is a nominal return in Indian Rupees (Rs ) terms. So what can a US Dollar ( USD ) investor in India expect as a long term return? What should an investor…

• Something Is Rotten In The State Of Diebold's Dividends

  By Quoth the Raven: Diebold ( DBD ) has long been an attractive buy based on the excellent dividends that it pays, and has been paying, for nearly 60 years. As the human race moves boldly into the future and companies like Bank of America ( BAC ) continue to come up with more self-service solutions…

• Swiss Re still seeks Admin Re partner

  Swiss Re continues its hunt for partners to invest in its underperforming Admin Re subsidiary, which last month failed to agree a proposed tie-up

• 2014 Resolution: Learning To Fall Out Of Love With Investments

  By Mike Arnold : It has happened to all of us. For some reason, a particular company can become the darling of an investment portfolio, even if the share price relative to value begin to converge on one another. Because investing requires one to allocate scarce resources ('aka cash') into…

• Bad News Biotechs Of 2013

  By EnhydrisPECorp : It's no secret that the biotech sector on the whole has resoundingly beaten the broader indices this year, and next year is shaping up to be another good one. Yet, some companies failed to join the sector-wide party this year and instead visited the factory of sadness.…

• U.S. Shale Gas: Who Gets The Pie?

  By Robert Rhodes: Earlier this year I dove right into natural gas as an alternative to diesel for medium to heavy transport in the United States. " Natural Gas And Commerical Transportation: The Hatching Egg ", " U.S. Federal Law, Exports And Subsidies: Natural Gas And The Commerical…

• Global stocks lose grip on gains, euro scales heights

  LONDON (Reuters) - The euro reached a five-year peak against the yen and a six-week high against the dollar on Tuesday, as focus intensified on the dwindling level of spare cash in the euro zone's banking system and the ECB's apparent lack of concern.

• Thousands brave rain for Mandela service

  Obama among world leaders attending 'celebration' of statesman's life as thousands of South Africans gather in Soweto to say goodbye to the country's first black president

• Europe's top court sends alumina aid case back to lower court

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's highest court on Tuesday told a lower court to re-examine a long-running dispute between France, Italy and Ireland and EU competition regulators over whether millions of euros in state aid granted to the alumina sector was legal.

• Lululemon picks its new CEO

  The yoga-retailer announced today that TOMS president Laurent Potdevin will become chief in January, and founder Chip Wilson will step down from his role as chairman in the Spring.

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• Payday loan ads on TV soar to 400,000

  Television viewers were exposed to nearly 400,000 payday loan adverts last year, according to the regulator, Ofcom.

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• London corruption trial of businessman Dahdaleh collapses

  LONDON (Reuters) - The trial on corruption charges of businessman Victor Dahdaleh came to an abrupt halt on Tuesday when counsel for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) told a London court there was no longer a realistic prospect of a conviction.

• ECB's Draghi calls for banking union, economic reforms

  ROME (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi called on national governments to deliver economic reforms and complete a banking union, saying the ECB had won time for action by delivering price stability over the past 15 years.

• Coeure sees no reason for 'spectacular' ECB action

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation is not undershooting the European Central Bank's target of just below 2 percent so much that it should use its heaviest artillery to try to boost prices, ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said.

• Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

  Wall Street Breakfast Editors submit: Top Stories Treasury exits rest of GM stake and makes loss of $10.5B. The government has sold the remainder of its 31.1M shares in GM ( GM ) for $9.2B, which will end restrictions on executive pay and could pave the way for dividends and buybacks. The government…