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OFFHAND
Business writings
A RECENT issue of The Economist takes a rather dim view of the business books which are being churned out on all sorts of themes. Barring, as always, notable exceptions, most of them "appear to be little more ...
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GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW
Dollar slide and the world economy
Lower growth in the American economy caused by rising oil prices and a possible drop in consumer spending spells a bearish outlook for the dollar. The next year could see major currencies, along with gold, appreciating against the dollar, says V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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ON THE MOVE
Domestic transportation of LNG — Well-defined regulation will ensure fair tariffs
IN LNG transportation the external issues relate to import, deployment of the right type of vessels and freight, and the current controversy about whether the import should be on f.o.b or ex-ship (c.i.f) basis. Earlier, ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Signs of weakness seen
A negative breadth in the cash segment coupled with weak indices and high outstandings in the derivatives point to a disturbing trading trend.
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
World of changes in MF industry
Mr SANJAY Jha was one of the poster boys of the Indian asset management industry in the early days of its liberalisation, gifted enough to be considered as an unofficial spokesman who represented all that was good in the mutual funds circuit. ...
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ADR WATCH
Infosys hits yet another 52-wk high
EVEN as the tech-laced Nasdaq ended almost flat at 1915.14, the other key benchmarks - Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 - suffered. Record oil prices coupled with some disappointing financial performances from corporates such as ...
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
Do we deserve a place among the `deadbeat nations'?
ONE of the many architectural works of Charles Correa is India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations. As the URL of that office www.un.int/india/about_pmi.html would inform, it has "a striking personality and embodies the cultural iconography ...
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RANDOM WALK
Taxiing into a monopoly?
AS Kerala seeks to consolidate its enviable ranking as one of the most preferred destinations for travellers and tourists from around the world, once in a while the odd blip on the radar sends across a wrong signal to the world at large. One such ...
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MARK TO MARKET
Performance, with style and index
Fund-houses should look to exploiting mispricing in assets through not-so-greatly exploited investment strategies. This would mean adopting hedge-fund-like strategies within the constraints of long-only strategies. Of course, funds can also combine d erivatives with the spot market to capture the benefits of long-short strategy.
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