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RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS: Is it the right time to purchase gold?
Over the years, retail gold buyers in India, if not its stock market investors, have adhered quite faithfully to the cardinal investment rule that says “buy low and sell high”. Retail demand for jewellery in India has ...

FINANCIAL POLICY: Complex issue of capital controls
There have been discussions in the international media on the need to restrict capital inflows. This follows the decision by Brazil on October 20, 2009, to impose a 2 per cent tax on capital inflows. It is recognised that unrestricted ...

EDITORIAL: Equity in pensions
Slowly but surely, India’s pension system is moving into the modern age. In August last year, private provident fund and superannuation trusts were permitted to invest a larger amount of their corpus in equity; a year later, the ...

OUTSOURCING: How a hotel burnt its fingers
In an advertisement on its pages, the US business daily, The Wall Street Journal, proudly proclaimed ‘Hyatt has great news’. The paper was pleased to announce that copies of the paper would henceforth be available for our ...

ECONOMICS: Economics or blind man’s buff?
To the extent I have been able to delve into the past, I see no record of economists having been able to predict looming economic crises with any degree of accuracy. Rather, they get into a frenzy of rationalisations after the event, and even ...

WTO: All quiet on the Doha front
Barring a miracle — and it will be a miracle if it occurs — there is simply no possibility at this point of time of a breakthrough occurring on the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks. Admittedly, consultations are continuing both ...

LETTERS: Branch profit tax
In the article ‘Decoding branch profits’ (Business Line, November 7), several questions, prima facie intriguing, have been raised with respect to the newly designed proposals in the Direct ...

LETTERS: PSU divestment
The Government’s decision to divest government stakes in about 100 profit-making PSUs is a welcome move, as mentioned in ‘Divesting for development’ (Business Line, November 7). It is said that the ...

EVENTS: ‘Paranoid’ WEF
The Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF) should probably change its name to We Enforce-by-Force (WEF). This is what journalists covering what was once a premier global industry event feel. Gone are the days when the WEF was so hungry for ...


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 S Venkitaramanan




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Nifty (at close)4,798.15 (+32.60)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)46.80/81
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs3,658
Gold (a gram) Rs1,561
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