The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 03, 2005

Blunkett's exit
THE closing months of 2004 saw the British Home Secretary (same as Home Minister), Mr David Blunkett, and his private office, embroiled in a heated and unsavoury controversy in Parliament and the media over the ... More

GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW

Not ready for greatness
The inability to shed outmoded thoughts is the reason behind the country having taken more than two decades to marginally raise its average economic growth rate from 5.5 per cent to 6.5 per cent despite the potential to sustain double-digit growth ra tes. It is a combination of nationalism deficit and confidence deficit... The country's interests receive little attention and, worse, are even compromised. The billions are so engrossed with their own million mutinies that the mutinies that are bei ng hatched from the outside escape their attention. More

WIDE CANVAS

An exercise in make-believe
THE Independent South Asia Commission on Poverty Alleviation has done it again. In its second report, the body — set up under the auspices of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) — ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

At peak levels, from here to where?
The technical analysis, at this juncture, does not throw up much clue to the market movement in the immediate term. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Time for dos & don'ts
THIS is January and time to draft a set of New Year resolutions. Like everybody else, mutual fund enthusiasts too must write down their own dos and don'ts and focus on them for the rest of the year. Here is a list of resolutions, written in ... More

ADR WATCH

HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank hit 52-week high
IT was a lacklustre trading session for the US markets during the last week of 2004; a flurry of profit-bookings in index heavyweights checked the market movement. The last week of the year was pretty flat for stocks; nonetheless the year overall ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

A dark side of the rehabilitation process
LADY Macbeth said, "It is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way." But the problem with many good-hearted people is the "overflow of kindness," as in Much Ado About Nothing even as "there are no faces truer than ... More

RANDOM WALK

Tsunami and fishing communities
THE fact that fishing communities forever exist in the margins of society — even as "developed" a society as Kerala, which has supposedly delivered the blessings of a superior physical quality of life to its myriad citizens— comes ... More

MARK TO MARKET

Raising returns through overlay strategies
EVALUATING the performance of balanced funds is not easy. It is unfair on portfolio managers to compare such funds with diversified equity funds or an equity benchmark, both of which are fully invested in stocks. It is ... More

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