The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, January 06, 2005

Let not financing be a disaster after rapid onset of natural disasters
DISASTER, donations, distribution, and delay, form only a predictable combination that plays out whenever a major blow strikes. There can be a better alternative, argue Eugene Gurenko and Rodney Lester in a recent World ... More

IMPRESSIONS

Homeless and alone
IT IS MORE than a week since the killer tsunami struck many nations of Asia. Indonesia, the worst hit, Sri Lanka, India (including Andaman Islands) Thailand Myanmar Malaysia and even Kenya and Somalia were affected. ... More

SAY CHEEK

An earthquake from `the depths of Asia'
"Earth will tremble. Water an unhappy reluctance," writes Nostradamus, and that seems fairly close to the truth. More

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

Knowledge at risk if you're asking what's VaR
ACCOUNTANTS know debits and credits as much as the palm of their hands. But Moorad Choudhry's Structured Credit Products, from Wiley (www.wiley.com) belongs to a different league. It is about ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Basket selling triggers collapse
AFTER a long time almost all the index stocks - both in the BSE Sensex and S&P CNX Nifty - closed lower from previous day's close. Among the Sensex constituent, only Gujarat Ambuja Cement closed higher; in the S&P CNX Nifty, while Dabur More

ON THE HEDGE

Nifty, Tata Steel may turn positive
THE following strategies are based on Wednesday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segments on the NSE. The positions are constructed to payoff from possible short-term reversal in the underlying. The strategy is, therefore, risky and has ... More

SENSOR

Public sector stocks lead the plunge
THREAT of larger increases in interest rates in the US economy, the provider of liquidity to the global economy, fall in stock prices in other Asian markets and rise in oil prices spooked sentiment and triggered a sharp sell-off in the stock ... More

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