The index can be used to develop green financial products including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and structured products, the BSE said

By Mike Stallings:"Where there is enough smoke, there usually is a fire," is something my dad used to tell me when I was a kid. As a child I never really got the whole meaning of it, but as you become more experienced in the game of life, it can take on many meanings. In the…

By Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the in-depth session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Tuesday February 21. Has Apple (AAPL) Reached Its Peak? Apple (AAPL) determines the direction of the market like few other stocks. The stock took a dive last Wednesday of 29…

Reasons abound for continued gloom about the world economy – the apparently intractable eurozone crisis, extreme imbalances at the heart of the Chinese economy, the possibility of another oil price shock, I could go on – but for the moment at least, they don't seem to be…

Click photo to enlargeIn a Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. U.S. stock futures are falling, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, echoing declines in Europe where investors fretted over the details of the Greek bailout plan.…

By Richard Bloch:In late 2009, Jim Cramer published Getting Back to Even, a book he wrote to help shell-shocked investors deal with a stock market crash the likes of which we hadn't seen since 1929.There's some good information in the book, except in one chapter, "The Next Big…

By Mike Arnold:Every security is a sell at one price, a hold at some lower price and a buy at yet some further decremented price when value is appreciably higher than the stock quote. Before the corrosive global financial crisis and at the apex of crude oil prices, Vestas Wind…

Seth Wenig In a Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. U.S. stock futures are falling, Wednesday, Feb. 22,...

A day after a highly anticipated (and fretted about) Greek debt deal was announced, which briefly pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 13,000, the U.S. stock market recorded modest losses. The Dow shed 27 points and closed at just above 12,938. The widely watched blue-chip index…

By Equitymaster: Selling intensified during the final hours of the day and as a consequence, indices in the Indian stock markets ended the session deep in the red. While BSE-Sensex lost in the region of more than 280 points (down 1.5%), decline on the NSE-Nifty came in at around 100…

By Benjamin Goldman:Best Buy (BBY) is considered by many to be a company on the decline. The retail chain has successfully branded itself as the go-to brick and mortar retail store for electronics as it carries almost every major brand in consumer electronics, digital media and…

By Stephen Simpson:Not only do I like industrial companies in general, but small industrial companies are near and dear to my heart. Played right, they can be surprisingly lucrative stock picks with much less of the risk that often goes with small technology or healthcare names.The…

An ICICI Securities’ February report shows that fund managers’ outlook for the equity market has improved

By Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the Lightning Round session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Tuesday February 21. Bullish Calls: Ralph Lauren (RL), VFCorp (VFC): "...Ralph Lauren pulled back...VFC pulled back. They are superior to Hanesbrands...we want to stick with…

At 09:16 am, the main 30-share BSE stock index was up 0.35% at 18,481.41, and the 50-share NSE index gained 0.22% to 5,618.60

The Daily StarWSJ: European Stocks End Lower On Data, Greece SkepticismWall Street JournalBy Ishaq Siddiqi Of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL European stock markets finished lower Wednesday, as investors remained uninspired by Greece's latest bailout deal and expressed disappointment about data…

Chinese shares closed higher Wednesday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 22.16 points, or 0.93 percent, to finish at 2,403.59, the highest close in more than two months.

China's stock index futures closed higher Wednesday, with the contract for March, the most actively traded, up 1.32 percent from the previous trading day to 2,595.8 points.

Filed under: Investing, StreetwiseA month and a half into the new year, all's well on the stock markets. Through the end of last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) had: 19 "up" days. Only 14 "down" days. Overall posted a 6% positive return for the year. Taking note of…

CH Energy Group, Inc. (NYSE: CHG), today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Fortis Inc., (TSX: FTS), the largest investor-owned distribution utility in Canada, under which Fortis will acquire CH Energy Group for an aggregate purchase price of approximately…

Filed under: Economy, InvestingNEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 13,000 on Tuesday for the first time since May 2008, when the Lehman Brothers investment bank was solvent, unemployment a healthy 5.4 percent and the worst of the Great Recession months ahead. The…

By BubbleBustInvesting:Investors who have been looking for a turnaround in Applied Material's (AMAT) stock got it from the company's Q4 report. Applied Material reported an adjusted profit of $117 million or 18 cent per share compared with a profit of $506 million or $38 38 cents…

Iran has offered extra oil supplies to Asian buyers as it seeks to retain market share in the face of western sanctions aimed at crippling Tehran’s nuclear programme that many say is aimed at producing a bomb

Since November 22, 2011 OfficeMax's (OMX) stock has risen 28.1% to close at $5.75 on February 17, 2012. OfficeMax looks to keep the momentum going when it reports fourth quarter earnings on Thursday, February 23, 2012.

By Corey Mergenthaler:Many investors make the same common mistake - associating a stock's share price with its valuation and assuming that a high-priced stock is an "expensive" stock, and a low-priced stock is a "cheap" stock. In reality the actual price of the stock has nothing to…