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COLUMNS
FINANCIAL SCAN:
‘Narrow’ banks: An idea whose time has come?
Some years ago, the concept of a ‘narrow’ bank was widely discussed in policy-making, academic and market circles. One would have thought that in current times when the entire spectrum of commercial banks, investment banks, ...
T.C.A. SRINIVASA-RAGHAVAN:
The crisis in macroeconomics
Last week, this column had pointed out that economics was babbling itself into irrelevance. After all, if you can’t agree on the basics, as other disciplines do, if you can’t predict outcomes with any degree of certainty, if you ...
VIEW POINT:
No shoes, please
Very soon we will be arriving at a situation where, to attend a Press conference or perhaps even a lecture or something of the sort, one will be asked to take off one’s shoes and leave it at the entrance. This is the futuristic message of ...
OFFHAND:
Bonding with words
The Obama phenomenon, or Obamania, as it has come to be called, now sweeping the world is largely attributable to the magic of words being effectively put to use as an integral part of exercise of inspirational leadership. Words are ...
BL CLUB:
C.J. George, MD, Geojit Financial Services; Bharata Mata Institute of Management, Kochi
The downside risks of the world economic recession still continue to persist, since neither the US stock markets nor its currencies have plunged in consonance with other major global markets. However, the current recession is both a cause ...
BL CLUB:
Hari Prakash, General Manager, Concorde Motors; Dept of Management Studies, Guru Nanak College, Chennai
Chennai, Feb. 3 Market segmentation is an important aspect in the brand-building process. It can be based on diverse factors, namely, demographic, psychographic, geographic, lifestyle, global market segmentation and behavioural segmentation, ...
ON THE HEDGE:
Educomp futures in deep discount
Chennai, Feb. 3 Trading volume improved to Rs 40,066.85 crore in the F&O segment on the NSE on Tuesday amid volatile trading. The NSE Nifty future closed 2765 against the spot close of 2783.9. The discount narrowed down to about 19 ...
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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