All but the wealthiest readers will have noticed by now that food costs have risen this year. In May grocery prices were 4.4% higher than they were the previous May. If 4.4% doesn't sound like...

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Nancy Tooke, the third manager of Eaton Vance's Tax Managed Small Cap Growth Fund since 2003, is turning the fund around after a six-year...

What with the limited space in the room, a number of Congress leaders who came to Delhi for the nomination exercise, had to stand in the corridor along with mediapersons. Baalu, the Nationalist Congress Party by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal by Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad and the former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, and the Lok Jan Shakti Party by Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. Patil, who greeted all...