The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 24, 2003

`Freedom is beautiful'
THOSE were the words the US President, Mr George W. Bush, spontaneously and cheerfully uttered when he was rather rudely asked by a correspondent at a joint media conference with the UK Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, at ... More

GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW

Atrophied roots of American capitalism
From being a beacon for the free world, America could end up as an example of the anarchy that results from brute and unchecked financial Darwinism, with disclosures about the American corporate world and financial market shenanigans showing no signs of abating, says V. Anantha Nageswaran. More

WIDE CANVAS

The US-China trade spat
Whether the differences between the world's biggest and fifth biggest trading nation will affect the thawing Sino-American trade ties in the immediate future is still uncertain, but the fact remains that it could lead to hiccups on the international trade front which, among other things, can scupper for some more time the efforts to get the stalled WTO negotiations moving. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Vulnerable market looks for support
This week, the operators are likely to try their hands in pulling up some of the Sensex heavyweights so that the downward drifting mode of the market is arrested. The market psychology, and not the volatility, right now is cause of worry for the soot hsayers. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Tech funds — Set for a change?
THERE are signs that a section of the mutual fund industry is rallying around the point that tech funds, which many feel have outlived their utility, must be reconstructed into more diversified products, capable of delivering better value to ... More

ADR WATCH

Narrow movement for Indian counters
TERRORIST attacks in Turkey seemed to have lowered investor confidence in the equity markets as the US stocks fell for the second straight week. During last week, the S&P 500 lost 1.4 per cent to 1,035.28 and according to Bloomberg, it was the ... More

RANDOM WALK

Local government good practice
With its history of decentralisation and its inherent bias for public action, Kerala is bound to benefit from its association with the CLGF. More

MARK TO MARKET

SEs must marginalise ad hoc solutions
A SECTION of investors hold the National Stock Exchange (NSE) responsible for slowing down the current rally in equity prices. The reason is that the exchange, to control systemic risk, recently imposed ad hoc ... More

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