OPINION
EDITORIAL
Serve up some competition
FOR THOSE POLICY-MAKERS racking their brains to find the means to reverse the rising inflation, two events last week must provide some refreshingly different clues. The first was the launch of the inter-metro service by the fledgling, no-frills ...
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AQUACULTURE
Seafood industry looks for lifeline
FOR nearly a decade now, the country's seafood industry, that of Kerala in particular, has been finding the going tough after an extended period of smooth sail on the export front both in terms of volume and forex ...
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ECONOMY
Budget, service tax and all that
Even as the new Government completed its first 100 days in office, the abrupt end to the Budget session with the Opposition not finding enough `political space' to play its legitimate role, served merely as diversions to the myriad problems the polit y is faced with.
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Unconvincing dollar rally
Though the dollar rallied when spot crude oil prices pulled back by more than 10 per cent during the week ended August 27, it does not mean the currency has strengthened. The market reaction is dangerously myopic and long-term investors should u se the opportunity to diversify, says V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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Return of inflation: Challenge to monetary policy
SPEAKING on the occasion of the Budget on July 8, 2004, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, referring to the price situation, said: "Although there are short-term pressures on prices, the outlook for the year ...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Momentum versus value investing
VALUE investing is a popular long-term investment style. From Warren Buffett to David Dreman and Bill Miller, value managers have outperformed the market in the long run. Here is a comparison between value investing and ...
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Funny mismatch
MY meetings with those running panchayati raj institutions in Tamil Nadu give the impression that their problems are not taken seriously by functionaries of various levels of administration, including government ...
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CONSUMERISM
Can consumers refuse to suffer `service tax' add-on?
WHAT should have been more entertaining than the recent meeting between the Opposition leaders and the Prime Minister is the series of parleys between the striking truckers and the mandarins of the North Block. On many occasions, the result of ...
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LETTERS
Drop in inflation rate
The financial press has played up the reported "fall" in inflation rate to 7.94 per cent for the week ended August 14 from 7.96 per cent in the previous week. It is even claimed by some that the anti-inflationary measures initiated by ...
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