OPINION
RURAL MARKETING
Selling in Rural India
The Indian rural market with its vast size and demand base offers a huge opportunity that MNCs cannot afford to ignore.
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EDITORIAL
Fuel futures cautiously
WITH NATION-WIDE MULTI-COMMODITY exchanges proliferating — four at last count — and futures trading started in a number of commodities, there is an air of expectancy in the marketplace. The so-called feel-good factor is fuelling ...
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ECONOMY
Has global growth peaked?
Starting from the US jobs numbers, the huge US budget deficit, the slower growth of German and Italian economies, the stagnation of the Japanaese stock market to the unexpected production cuts by OPEC, all suggest that the global economic cycle may h ave reached its zenith, says V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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FOREX
RBI report on forex reserves — Tread warily amid abundance of riches
ONE of the features of recent Budget speeches, including the latest one of Mr Jaswant Singh, has been an expression of satisfaction at the level of reserves. Mr Jaswant Singh, in particular, mentioned that the ...
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POLITICS
Election planks
IN preparation for the election to the Lok Sabha, political parties must be working out the main thrusts of their campaign to woo the electorate. They must have realised that they cannot fool all the voters all the time ...
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WTO
Row over battery imports
With Bangladesh approaching the WTO on the imposition by India of anti-dumping duties on imports of lead acid batteries, there is the possibility of the dispute going to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, which will witness one more battle between the developing and less-developed world, perhaps much to the satisfaction of the developed economies which would, at any time, prefer a division-wracked poor world, making their continued dominance over the international economy a trifle easier.
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INTERVIEW
`Retail lending is sustainable' — Mr K. V. Kamath, MD and CEO, ICICI Bank
Perhaps, Mr Kundapur Vaman Kamath, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank, is the only banker in the country to sport a tricolour pin on the lapel of his navy blue suit. In an interview to Business Line in his ...
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IPOS
Book-building: Information better than floor price
THE PRIMARY market is likely to see several public offers in the next few months. Investor enthusiasm for such offers is very high and not without reason. Primary offers have given handsome returns to investors. ...
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