The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Love you, US!
One would simply love to live in the US, if only for one reason: The ruthlessness with which the law enforcement machinery goes after the high and mighty — whether politicians or business tycoons — ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN

Improving returns from excess reserves
Summers' idea is timely More

DOWN TO EARTH

Compounding troubles for farmers
The rate of interest charged on farm loans is not as important as the method of charging it. By compounding, in defiance of a Supreme Court judgment and RBI directives, cooperative banks are all but practising usury. In absolute terms, the finan cial loss caused to the farmers of India in the 1980s and the 1990s could be as high as Rs 3 lakh crore More

SAY CHEEK

When do people say `um' and `uh'?
The book is from `huge files... packed full of the cherished snippets of information.' More

SIMPLY...

Of IIM fees and salary offers
Ravi Goel sends his daughter to class five in a Mumbai suburban CBSE school. The fees for the child works out to Rs 44,000 a year. But his neighbour, Suresh Mathur, can afford to spend more on his son, also in class five. He sends the boy to a ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Rate hike hopes boost banks
Dena Bank and Federal Bank were buzzing on Tuesday. Both the scrips touched their 52-week high as buying interest increased with expectations of a rate hike to be announced in the credit policy on April 18. Dena Bank touched an intra-day high ... More

BHEL continues bull run
BHEL continued its bull run from Monday. The scrip was a buyer's favourite after the company announced its results and also made public its intention to acquire companies in the US and Europe. Dealers say that a large mutual fund house is buying ... More

HMT ticking fast
The HMT counter has been seeing action as brokerages are viewing the scrip as undervalued at its current level. Though clients are being asked to keep stop losses between Rs 78 and Rs 80, they are predicting short-term upside in the scrip. The ... More

SENSOR

Oil & gas pack advance in value; major IT scrips slip
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