The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 05, 2005

Gentle persuaders
THE Indian Liberal Group, headed with great dedication by Mr S. V. Raju, deserves a big salute for holding aloft the values (freedom, fair play, tolerance, intellectual honesty, open mind, recourse to reasoned persuasion, receptivity to opposing ... More

WIDE CANVAS

A tale of evolving WTO drafts
A comparison between the two drafts prior to the upcoming WTO ministerial meeting at Hong Kong helps to throw light on the pressures being exerted on the ministerial conference, thus yielding an important clue to the state of play of the conflicting forces grappling with each other to settle vital parameters of international trade for the next three or four years. More

ON THE MOVE

For Railways, steel may indeed be worth its weight
THE National Steel Policy (NSP) envisages an increase in the production of steel from the present 38 million tonnes (mt) to 110 mt in 2019-20, with an annual growth rate of 7.3 per cent. The estimates are based on the ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Sensex may consolidate around current levels
THE Sensex attempted a couple of times to sail past the 9000-point mark last week. But the liquidity flow was not enough for its venture into the new territory. Though still positive, the liquidity inflow needs more steam to move ahead ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Spread investments over multiple fund categories
NOBODY has ever doubted the claim that investors in equity funds may face tremendous risks in the short term. Rarely before was this so amply clear as in the last week. Stocks see-sawed heavily, and while a straight 140-point fall on one day ... More

ADR WATCH

VSNL ends on firm note
PROFIT-taking coupled with increasing oil prices weakened the US markets, which declined last week for the first time in six weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.5 per cent to 10,877.51 and the S&P's 500 Index slid 0.3 per cent to ... More

SAY CHEEK

Is gold the supreme possession?
THE gold fever rages on. It closed at a 22-year high of $502.50, as Los Angeles Times reports an hour ago. Gold returns to its `80s heights, remembers Chicago Tribune. And CNN suggests, "`Tis the season to buy some bling," and ... More

CHAT

The sinewy vigour of the investor
Jogin played recorded videos of old cricket Test matches, as if to make up for the washed-out one in Chennai. Dakshinamoorthy kept calling his people to check if they were safe from floods. Sridevi went shopping for gold once more. And Khan ... More

EUROSCAPE

WTO Ministerial: A nuanced discourse
IN THE Odyssey, Odysseus goes on a specialised kind of discourse almost every time he speaks, in which he sets out a pair of opposing possibilities for the situation at hand, and then selects the one which seems ... More

JOTTINGS

The knowing-acting gap
THE gap between what we know for certain and what we actually apply in practice is a source of enduring frustration for managers and consultants. Chris Argyris, an outstanding social scientist and intellectual at ... More

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