Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, December 11, 2008
ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs

News
Features
Stocks
Cross Currency
Shipping
Archives
Google

Subscription

Group Sites

AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES

METALS: Platinum group metals to rule higher next 10 years
But demand for auto-catalyst may face slowdown. Mumbai, Dec. 10 As compared with the average of last 30 years, real and nominal prices of platinum and palladium are forecast to rule at sharply elevated levels over the next 10 years to 2017, the ...

ALUMINIUM: Madras Aluminium suspends production
Company’s captive power unit to continue power sale. Mumbai, Dec. 10 Following the sharp fall in aluminium prices, Madras Aluminium, a Vedanta Group company, has decided to suspend production with immediate effect ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Minimum support prices are not fixed mechanically’
We have to be flexible while fixing the rates: CACP chief. New Delhi, Dec. 10 This year, during kharif sowing, the Centre came up with minimum support prices (MSP) that were “unprecented” in terms of the increase. Even as a decision ...

RUBBER: A rubbery toughness
As one of the four plantation crops of Kerala, rubber – alongside tea, coffee and cardamom – occupies pride of place in the State’s agricultural economy. But rubber growers in Kerala are in a tizzy now as rubber prices have ...

CLIMATE & WEATHER: Monsoon may be active until weekend
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 10 The persisting low-pressure area over southeast Arabian Sea and adjoining Comorin helped extend the active monsoon regime from coastal Tamil Nadu to adjoining Kerala and ...

PLANTATIONS: Sharing of social cost with plantation cos on cards
New Delhi, Dec. 10 In order to minimise the social cost currently being incurred by the plantation industry for social welfare schemes, the Department of Commerce has come out with a Central scheme of Rs 1,414 crore in the next five years for ...

FERTILISERS: Rs 10,000-cr fertiliser bonds issued
...

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL: Row over virgin olive oil import duty
Chennai, Dec. 10 Imports of virgin olive oil have landed in a controversy with importers and Customs authorities engaged in a duel over the duty that will have to be paid for bringing this edible oil into ...

RUBBER: Spot rubber prices gain
Kottayam, Dec. 11 The physical rubber prices showed a better trend on Wednesday. A positive mood in the domestic and international rubber futures kept most of the sellers on the sidelines though there were no revised quotes from the tyre ...

TEA: Volume continues to fall at Coonoor tea auction
Coonoor, Dec. 10 For the fourth consecutive week, offer for the weekly auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) follows a declining trend with the catalogues totalling 13.84 lakh kg for Sale No: 50 to be held tomorrow and Friday. It ...





Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
Subscribe to: Business Line

Markets (Dec 10)
Nifty (at close)2928.25(+144.25)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)48.98/99
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs1,999
Gold (a gram) Rs1,157
Silver (a kg) Rs17,350


Related Topics
Agricultural Institutions
Agricultural Policy
Aluminium
Animals & Livestock
Aquaculture
Bio-tech & Genetics
Cashew
Co-operatives
Coconut & Copra
Coffee
Coir
Commodities
Commodity Exchanges
Commodity Markets
Contract Farming
Cotton
Cultivation
Dairy & Dairy Products
Farm credit
Fertilisers
Floriculture
Foodgrains
Foods & Food Processing
Gold & Silver
Horticulture/Fruits & Vegetables
Infrastructure
Jute
Metals
Oilseeds & Edible Oil
Pesticides
Pests
Plantations
Poultry
Power
Pulses
Rice
Rubber
Seeds
Silk
Spices & Condiments
Standards & Benchmarks
Sugar
Tea
Technical Analysis
Tobacco
Water
Wheat
WTO


In Focus
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Singapore

More

Other Top Stories
Subex upbeat on ‘decent’ figures by Q3

Realty index spurts the most on revival steps

Platinum group metals to rule higher next 10 years

Lavasa project on track despite meltdown

DLF’s IT economic zone denotification ‘a simple one’

‘Minimum support prices are not fixed mechanically’

Infotech Enterprises gears to tap defence space

Looking back
Nov. 30-Dec. 6
Egg exports to Gulf hit on N-E bird flu outbreak

Fertiliser importers lose out even in declining price situation

Production cuts may help metal prices rebound



Smartbuy



The Hindu Group: Home | About Us | Copyright | Archives | Contacts | Subscription
Group Sites: The Hindu | The Hindu ePaper | Business Line | Business Line ePaper | Sportstar | Frontline | The Hindu eBooks | The Hindu Images | Home |

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu Business Line. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu Business Line