The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 09, 2002

Ballooning revenue, fiscal deficits
ACCORDING to the figures till end-December 2001 released by the Controller of Accounts, the Centre's revenue receipts were only 57 per cent of the projected receipts for financial 2001-02; the corresponding figure for end-December 2000 was 65 per ... More

VIEW POINT

Past and future
IT IS said that every saint has a past and every sinner a future. This essentially means that every human being has a "good" and "bad" aspect of life. Alternatively, no person's life can be only "good" or only "bad". Assuming that a nation has a ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Karur Vysya shines on takeover talk
AFTER Bank Brussels Lambert intention to take control of Vysya Bank, another South-Indian bank Karur Vysya Bank was being rumoured to be on the acquisition list. The acquirers' names floating in the market include — HDFC Bank and ABN ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Selling HLL 240 call may profit
ON the last trading day of the week, the option market for individual stocks at the NSE saw most of the calls gaining in value. The top traded equity options were on Satyam Computer, Sterlite Opticals, Hindustan Lever and Larsen and Toubro ... More

SENSOR

Index heavyweights buoy sentiment
THE stock markets were upbeat on Friday buoyed by index heavyweights HLL, ITC and Reliance. After some correction on Thursday, hopes of foreign fund inflows into the country following the recent positive moves taken by the ... More

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