Even folks new to investing have probably heard someone mention index funds. But what are they and how do they work? This article explores index funds in detail to help you understand how they work, ...

The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...

Buy low, sell high. The trend is your friend. Sell in May and go away. Wall Street is teeming with familiar financial adages. But there’s one you may not have heard of: “When the VIX is high, it’s ...

Indexes represent baskets of financial assets, gauging overall market performance. Index funds allow passive investment at low costs, popular for matching market returns. Understanding indexes helps ...

The Russell 1000 stock index includes the largest and most successful publicly traded stocks in the U.S. The Russell 1000 is made up of about 1,000 stocks, making it one of the broadest measures of ...

Investment guru Warren Buffett offers a straightforward solution for the one-third of Americans who are reluctant to invest ...

Q. I am a 32 year old veterinarian running my own clinic in Hisar, Haryana. I have been investing in large cap mutual funds for the past 8 years. Recently, I came across the Nifty Microcap 250 Index.

Q. I am an operations executive working with an MNC in Delhi, my wife is a private school teacher. We have been investing in the Sensex tracking index mutual funds since the past 5 years, we now want ...