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Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Markets (Oct. 13)
BL 2501724.42 (+31.25)
BSE Sensex4849.27 (+80.37)
S&P CNX Nifty1546.75 (+23.65)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)45.38/45.51
Gold Std (10 gm)5600 (-20)

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No hiding place
YOU must by now have heard of SoBig, Slammer, Code Red, Nimda, IloveYou and others. They are viruses unleashed on the World Wide Web by malicious programmers to disrupt trade and commerce, governments and universities ... More

GLOBAL MONITOR


Gold struggling for breath
FOR most of last week, the gold market appeared if it was still struggling to catch its breath following the savage sell-off late the previous Friday that saw prices collapse from above $380 an ounce to low of $366.25/oz. However, prices ... More

MICROSCOPE


HDFC: Strong loan growth boosts profit
THE intense competition in the housing loans market has not proved enough of a challenge for HDFC. The housing loan behemoth's growth of 33 per cent in disbursements to individuals and a growth of 26 per cent in loan assets suggest that HDFC has ... More

IPCL: Buoyed by prices, demand
INDIAN Petrochemicals Corporation's (IPCL) numbers for the July-September 2003 period are reflective of a quarter of good product prices and growing demand. Net profit and turnover net of inter-divisional transfers are up 20 per cent and 9 per ... More

RANDOM WALK


BOT, the norm now
LAST week was a pretty harrowing one for those Kochi residents who ventured to cross the new Mattancherry Bridge. Unless they were safely ensconced in the comfort of their own vehicles, they would have had to rely on something more fundamental to ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND


Bluest of them all
RELIANCE Industries Ltd is on a roll. Shares of the blue-chip company are much in demand in spite of the spectacular run over in the past few months. A domestic broking firm is recommending the stock to its investors saying that it is still ... More

SENSOR


Feelgood factor fuels investor interest
THE feelgood factor on the back of improving economic fundamentals and good monsoons appears to be swaying investors in its stride. The markets, which are already on fire, shot up on frantic buying across sectors on Monday. The Sensex raced ... More
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