The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 10, 2005

Judicial independence in the US
JUDICIAL independence at risk in the US, of all places on earth! Can it at all be within the realms of possibility? If some sensation-monger says it, you can dismiss it as unthinkable. But when the US Supreme Court ... More

WIDE CANVAS

New Delhi's oil initiative
The flight into ambition on the part of the Union Petroleum Minister should be overlooked because it is clear that his main objective is to develop an integrated Asian crude market, the centrepiece of which would be an Asian pricing system. However, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar's dream of an Asian oil market has a long way to go before it actually sees the light of day. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Dalal Street may struggle in speed-breaker zone
LAST week may have proved to be yet another test for the global money-bags and their so-called long-term play in the emerging markets such as India. Suddenly valuations of the Indian stocks are being questioned. `Downgrade' reports have started ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

In the UTI world
FOR all the restructuring and consolidation it has gone through, UTI remains a fund house of gigantic proportions, complete with a labyrinth of schemes where an average investor can well lose his way. As things stand today, it manages a large ... More

ADR WATCH

2005 begins on bitter note
THE first week of the year started on a bitter note for both the US and Indian markets, as major indices, which posted a healthy return in 2004, from both these countries witnessed a sharp fall. Concern over interest rate hikes following ... More

VISION 2020

Real crisis management
Emergency is the time for action, not for deliberation. A Crisis Management Committee is needed not to decide what orders should be issued during the emergency but to decide what should be done in the future to handle such crises better. Unfortunatel y, we do the reverse: Hold a Crisis Management Committee during the crisis, get in the way of urgent action, and forget about crisis management once the danger is past. This system impedes; it does not learn, says P. V. Indiresan. More

RANDOM WALK

Lessons in disaster management
AFTER an initial bout of confused debility and slackness, the Kerala Government seems to have recovered enough of its wits and begin offering succour to the hundreds of fishing communities along the State's coast affected by the ... More

MARK TO MARKET

Forget the extreme, hedge for normal price events
THE sharp fall in the S&P CNX Nifty on January 4 pales when compared to the 13 per cent decline on May 17, 2004. This is but yet another evidence that the distribution of asset price returns carries fat tails, or that More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

Access to power provides influence
MR GEORGE Bush will be sworn in on January 20 for his second term of office as President of the US. The inaugural festivities will include several lunches and dinners in the days preceding the inauguration, the actual swearing-in function, and a ... More

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