The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, January 04, 2009

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YOUNG INVESTOR: What’s on the saving menu for 2009?
“I began my career two years ago but started saving for a rainy day only recently, thinking I still had plenty of time. But to my horror, I got a mail from HR saying my increments and promotion may be put on hold. Thank god I got into ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Even companies have ‘relatives’
In the last two weeks, the words “related party” and “corporate governance” were doing the rounds in news channels and papers. Wondering how a company could have “relatives’ or related party transactions ...

BOOK VALUE: Corporate reporting can make investors wiser
When a loss-making company creates a deferred tax asset, it may be a signal that the company’s management is optimistic of an early turnaround, writes Madhu Vij in one of the case studies included in Management ...

TAX TALK: Tax effect of money given to spouse
I had given Rs 2 lakh by cheque to my wife. Is the same exempt in her hands? She had invested the said sum in shares and mutual ...

SIMPLE ECONOMICS: Designing a restaurant menu, differently
Recently, I happened to see a nicely designed menu of a restaurant. I was surprised to find that the prices were printed closer to the food description and not on the far right column of the page. It struck me that the design was engineered for ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Ponzi scheme
“Ponzi scheme” is a term that has been used to describe many scams and financial frauds — ranging from the failure of large NBFCs in India in the nineties to the recent scam perpetrated by Bernard Madoff on Wall ...

F & O OUTLOOK: Nifty futures may trade sideways
Investors could not have asked for a better start of the New Year. Nifty futures soared by over 6.5 per cent to end the week at above the 3K-mark at 3053.6. However, its premium over the spot narrowed down to just about seven points. The ...

MICROMOTIVES: Drawdown minimising strategy
Many investors have suffered about a 50 per cent drawdown in their portfolio value since the market crashed last January. Our interaction with clients and other market participants have shown that the investors who have suffered the least are ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh

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Nifty (on Jan 02)	3046.75(+13.30)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)	48.55/60
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