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New pay rules for bosses

Company execs may in future have to do more to prove that they earn their remuneration packages. The fixed income market is pricing in a total of 300 basis points of rate cuts over the next two years, but analysts feel this...

Back to basics

With Mutual Fund investors pulling out as much as Rs 47,000 crore in October, the highest redemption from MF sector so far this fiscal year, the worst fears of Bangalore-based independent filmmaker Nina Subramanian and her...

Prepare now for retirement

IF you would rather be perfecting your golf swing when you reach retirement age than punching a timesheet, then your 50s are not to be wasted work years. Real wealth demands planning, hard work and guts but even the best...

Huawei sets sights on US telecoms

Visitors approaching the headquarters of Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei by car get plenty of notice of the turn-off. The company has its own lane for several miles on the Meiguan Expressway. It isn’t the fast lane, but...

Mammon: How Asda takes sting out of the crunch

Unusually for a chief financial officer, Asda's Judith McKenna never really gets to talk numbers. She can't: ever since the supermarket group was bought by Wal-Mart in 1999, she has been kept on a tight leash by the US...

ATF price cut not to lower airfare

Domestic airfares will not become cheaper in the near future even though the price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) has come down by Rs 5585.91 a kilolitre, or 12 per cent. The prices could fall further as Dubai ATF prices have...

'Hypothetical tax abroad no income'

15 Nov, 2008, 0136 hrs IST,Deepshikha Sikarwar, NEW DELHI: In what would come as a relief to expat employees coming to India on a posting or Indian employees going abroad, a tax tribunal has ruled that they could exclude the...

New techniques nab business bad guys

Businesses have a sophisticated new tool for increasing their bottom line. It's called forensic data analysis and it saves companies' money by combating fraud, theft, waste and abuse. More than half the respondents had been the...

Labour's tariffs' workings based on wrong premises - ministry

The workings on which Opposition leader Joseph Muscat based his argument that the surcharge should be reduced by at least half and which he gave unions this morning, were built on the wrong premises and calculations, the...

Some Former Lobbyists Have Key Roles in Obama Transition

The Post's Daily Guide to Politics on the Web MORE » Ex-Lobbyists Have Key Obama Roles Some Members of Team Shaping New Administration Had Recent K Street Ties Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other...