The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, January 06, 2008

SIMPLE ECONOMICS
Congestion pricing
Mumbai or Manhattan, traffic gridlocks are a way of life. Recently, my friend and I were stuck for nearly an hour amidst a long line of cars and trucks on our way to the airport. My friend wondered whether it would make sense for State ... More

TAX TALK
Double taxation of salary
I am currently working in the US. I receive my salary in terms of dollars and rupees which is taxed in the US and India respectively. As I am taxed for the salary that I receive in India, one part of my ... More

AUTO FOCUS
TVS Flame 125: Firing on all cylinders
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BOOK VALUE
Teach your children Chinese
Just as the nineteenth century belonged to England and the twentieth century to the US, so the twenty-first century will be China’s turn to set the agenda and rule the roost, writes Jim Rogers in ‘A Bull in ... More

PORTFOLIO MOVES
HSBC Equity: Building on construction
HSBC Equity Fund, which seeks to invest predominantly in large caps, has completed five years since inception and has consistently outperformed its benchmark — the BSE 200 — over one, three and five-year periods. Like many ... More

YOUNG INVESTOR
LONG AND SHORT
Bringing markets to a boil
A truckload of people, by which I mean banks and governments and such like, went ballistic this Thursday when crude oil hit $100 for a barrel.And, as the worldwide financial media engine is trained to do, immediately experts from all ... More

Read between the lines on analyst-speak
With coverage of the stock markets expanding sharply, ‘analyst’ reports and recommendations are now widely available to every lay investor. But should investors take these sound bytes at face value?Maybe not, observes Mr ... More

Money Talk
Mr Uday Zokarkar has had an interesting career. After a nine-year stint with the Times group, he set up a business, lifestyle and technology magazine in the US called Mantram, which was ... More

Investment Nuggets
T. Rowe Price is a professional investor who showed that it is possible to beat the market averages consistently over time. He also founded an investment firm in his name — T. Rowe Price Associates. Price was very much an ... More

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