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S VENKITARAMANAN: Bank chiefs in quest of solutions
The RBI’s credit policy has come and gone, leaving bankers and borrowers none the wiser on matters of importance. Bankers are left to deal with issues of governance and credit disbursements. In this context, my attention was drawn to ...

A RINGSIDE VIEW: Cross-currents likely to swing market, but within a range
Big domestic investors keeping watch on Wall Street sentiments. Did the market expect a positive verdict on Reliance Industries Limited gas imbroglio or was it the (Barack) Obama package magic that was behind last week’s rally? Or was ...

VISION 2020: Reform the poll process
Many strange things have been happening since 26/11. At first, came the revulsion against politicians of all hues. Next were the elections in Kashmir which indicated a general distrust with separatist politics of the State. Then, Mr Stalin, son ...

WIDE CANVAS: The Fund’s grim message
If the US economy always sets the pace for the world to follow, it is now abundantly clear that the year ahead will perhaps be the worst in living memory as far global economic activity is concerned. For most people, this is no longer big ...

AMERICAN PERISCOPE: Directors should reflect on their roles
Thanks to the Satyam fraud, the current state of corporate governance has taken all the beating it can get. ‘How could the directors let this happen?’ is a justifiable reaction, even if we are talking about acts of omission, and ...

RANDOM WALK: Restoring Kuttanad to its heyday
Last week renowned agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan, who headed the group that engineered the Rs 1,839.75-crore Kuttanad Package for the revival of the once bountiful agrarian Kuttanad belt of Kerala, was back in the ...

FINANCIAL SCAN: Asset price stabilisation first priority
With interest rates already at near zero, the usual suspense ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s bi-monthly meeting was absent. But, as always, the post-meeting statement did engage the attention ...

BL CLUB: M.R. Venkatesh, Chartered Accountant; Dhanalakshmi College, Mahabalipuram
Chennai, Feb. 1India gets approximately 97 per cent of its total investment through domestic sources. The balance three per cent is what constitutes foreign investment. Yet, it is this meagre foreign investment that gets a ...

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 (at close)2,874.55(+50.60)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)48.87/88
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs2,203
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Silver (a kg) Rs21,530


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