The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 07, 2003

Needless pinpricks by the Centre
WHATEVER be the political complexion of the Governments at the Centre, a thread of arrogance and highhandedness runs through them all when it comes to dealing with State Governments. Even in Nehru's time, Chief Ministers used to complain that ... More

GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW

The maturing of economics
The IMF's appointment of Mr Raghuram Rajan as its Chief Economist, its recognition of the perils of blanket financial integration, the questioning of monetary orthodoxy by its messiah — all speak of a sea-change in the Fund's worldview and, per haps, in the science of economics too, says V. Anantha Nageswaran. More

WIDE CANVAS

Where are we headed?
The message is that, to the international community, India has come to be accepted as a "developed developing nation", which really means that the possibilities ahead in the economic sphere are limitless. More

ON THE MOVE

Will RoadRailer keep Railways on track?
The RoadRailer, built by a Pune company, can be operated on road as well as rail without transhipment, and has unique features that eliminate the need for a crane for loading and unloading containers. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Clear trend may emerge after Infosys' guidance
THE Shakespearean dilemma of the domestic stock market — a correction or no correction — may be resolved on Thursday, when Infosys announces its first quarter results and reviews or restates its guidance for the rest of the next three ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Is the party time over?
EVEN a casual observer would not have failed to notice the moves registered by NAVs of most diversified equity funds, which have continued to leverage the latest bullish trends that have permeated the world of investments, picking up as they have ... More

GLOBAL MONITOR

Gold firmer as dollar softens
A FIRMER week for gold with prices rising early in the week as the US dollar softened. The yellow metal bounced back over $350 an ounce on Tuesday, following weaker than expected economic data as a result of which the dollar and the equity ... More

ADR WATCH

MTNL, VSNL in limelight
THE uptrend in the US markets was unabated with hopes on better economic condition and improved financial performance from corporates growing day by day. As a result, the S&P 500 edged up by one per cent to 985.70, the Dow Jones Industrial ... More

SAY CHEEK

Twist in conditional access system tale
JULY 15 is not far off and as we sit biting our nails to see what happens on the C-Day, news is a disappointing dampener. CAS (that is, conditional access system) rollout may be deferred, they say, and it is as if a long serial was almost about ... More

STOCKS TO WATCH

IT sector awaits Infy's Q2
Infosys Technologies: The market is yet to completely recover from the aftermath of the quarterly results announced by the company in April. The stock has not quite participated in the recent market rally. Given this backdrop, this week ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

They won't hear if you shouted
WITH the launch of FM came a lot of music, plus a variety of low-priced FM transistor radios available on pavements. Though the FM companies are weeping over their early losses, listeners are happily gyrating to the music being churned out by the ... More

RANDOM WALK

Quite a clip?
THINK global, act local - that seems to be the idea behind the recent announcement of the proposed Local Investor Meet (LIM) to be held in Kozhikode in March 2004.The meet, being organised jointly by the District Panchayat, District Industries ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Cotton prices may move up further
NYCE cotton futures ended slightly higher on Thursday on speculative and trade buying with very less volumes transacted ahead of a holiday weekend. The cotton market was shut on Friday for US Independence Day. Market participants will be ... More

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