The Hindu Business Line : Friday, February 06, 2009

COLUMNS

OFFHAND: Averting layoffs
The report of the US Department of Labour of December 30 mentions the figure of 2.6 million as the total number of jobs lost in 2008, with December alone eating up 524,000 jobs. In fact, 1.9 million job losses took place in the last four months ...

ON THE HEDGE: Reliance Petroleum adds fresh positions
Chennai, Feb. 5 Turnover remained unimpressive at Rs 30,808 crore in the F&O segment on Thursday. However, the Nifty future narrowed down its discount, mainly on account of short covering. The Nifty future closed at 2773.4, against the ...

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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Markets (Feb 05)

Nifty (at close)	2,780.05(-23.00)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)	48.84/85
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs	2,134
Gold (a gram) Rs	1,297
Silver (a kg) Rs	21,195

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