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Wednesday, July 10, 2002
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Re firms up; gilts steady
Mumbai: THE rupee closed firmer on Tuesday by around 3 paise at 48.79/7950 per dollar in a lacklustre forex market as compared to Monday's close of 48.8150/8200. Forex dealers said, that the market was largely devoid of any dollar demand and ... More

GENERAL INSURANCE


Surveyors want IRDA cap on business eased
IRDA has stipulated that a surveyor can undertake work in a maximum of three departments out of the various segments. These include fire, engineering, motor, miscellaneous, marine cargo, marine hull and loss of profit. More

CREDIT RATING


  • Nedungadi Bank bonds get `LBB'

    FINANCIAL MARKETS


    Have US markets hit the bottom?
    A DISCONNECT has emerged between the performance of the US economy and its stock market. True, recent data have been mixed — housing has held up well, jobless claims are trending down, factory orders are up, inflation is benign and ... More

    RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS


    Foreign co, NRIs allowed to open term deposit a/cs
    THE Reserve bank of India (RBI) has permitted authorised dealers to open term deposit accounts in favour of foreign firms with branches or offices in India and also for NRIs for a period of six months. It has been receiving requests from ... More

    NON-PERFORMING ASSETS


    NPAs continue to haunt banks
    THE bugbear of non-performing assets continue to haunt public sector banks. In fiscal 2001-02, twenty-four public sector banks added Rs 11,180 crore of gross non-performing loans. That was almost twice the profits of Rs 5,675 crore that the 24 ... More

    CDR: All bark and no bite
    CORPORATE debt restructuring (CDR), prompted by the RBI in 2001, never passed the stage of official circulars. Now the central bank has set up a high-level group under Mr. Vepa Kamesam, Deputy Governor, RBI, "to review the operations of the CDR ... More

    CREDIT CARDS & DEBIT CARDS


    StanChart adds more glitter to `Gold Card'
    STANDARD Chartered Bank has introduced a series of benefits and services on its `Gold Card' for all its new and existing card members. Standard Chartered and Standard Chartered and Grindlays Gold card members can now avail themselves of ... More

    INTERVIEW


    'Good scope for infrastructure funding'
    "If I may say, we have just taken out a bucketful of water from the ocean. Now that we have consolidated our position, we hope to accelerate the velocity and grow faster as a company," says Mr Hemant Kanoria, MD, Srei International Finance Ltd. More
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