COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Supremacist streak
AT a joint media meet, after saying `sorry' to King Abdullah of Jordan on the savage treatment of Iraqi prisoners by units of the US Army, the US President, Mr George Bush, was "equally sorry that people seeing those ...
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GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW
The `golden' opportunity
This is a golden opportunity to accumulate the yellow metal though gold has been consigned to the dark recesses of human brain, and most metal bulls and speculators must have given up. This is because of the imbalanced state of the US economy and the impossibility of a combination of strong dollar, low interest rates and resilient stock market, says V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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WIDE CANVAS
Paying through your nose for petrol
IN TERMS of prices, the Indian oil scene has been quiescent for some time - since January 31 to be precise, when the last revision of prices was made at the industry regulatory level. This may be a cause for ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Dalal St awaits poll verdict
THE bulls were not smiling during the weekend; only a grimace remained, which they could partly protect by hedging on the futures. The FIIs, engine of the bull bandwagon, were net sellers in the cash segment last week. The domestic mutual ...
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
SBI Magnum Contra in top notch
PERFORMANCE figures clocked by mutual funds almost always have a revelation or two. This time, the lead achieved by SBI MF's Magnum Contra Fund has come up as a clear surprise. The scheme, which essentially chases undervalued stocks that are ...
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ADR WATCH
Infosys in spotlight
FEARS that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates continued to haunt the US markets as they finished on a weak note. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index witnessed its fourth weekly drop in five; the S&P 500 fell 0.8 per cent to 1098.70.
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
Phone that stirs dust of nationalism
A FRIEND catches me in the hallway to ask, "Nokio?" That must be Malayalam, I guess, to query if I have seen, but `what?' I ask back. "Nokia 1100," he says. "Those ads!" he fumes angrily, because the new product is made specially `for India' ...
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MARK TO MARKET
Structuring MF in `tranches'
STRUCTURED mutual funds may soon be the order of the day. Benchmark Mutual has set off the trend with its proposal to launch the Split Capital Fund. This fund would tranche credit risk among various classes of ...
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