The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 14, 2005

Cost accountant and the art of motorcycle valuation
OF ROADS rode I wrote, into autumn vale gleaming, golden pipes singing. Thus goes a haiku on http://motorcycles.about.com. Here's another: "Wind is in my hair, putt goes my motorcycle, o'er the hill I go." Well, if the bike went ... More

VIEW POINT

Right to information
EVEN WITHOUT the new right to information law, the average citizen of India has been having much greater access to information following the digital revolution. Take, for example, the research that went into the writing of this piece. Tracing the ... More

E-DIMENSION

Tall tax, food police, a bizarre bridge and a robber wanting your past or future
YOU PROBABLY know of John Galt in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Here is a different JG in Ken Schoolland's story, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey. The `commentary edition' of the book from Academic Foundation ... More

SAY CHEEK

Slurs are no laughing matter
ONE day it's a bank chairman who is arrested, and on another it's the Election Commission engaged in a war of words with Lalu. The common thread is the allegation of having passed casteist remarks. Though Microsoft Word doesn't seem to have ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Active buying seen in Carborundum Universal
THE stock of Carborundum Universal, a company into manufacturing of abrasives, has been in accumulation mode. On Friday also, there was active buying in the counter. The stock gained 7.15 per cent at Rs 144.65 on the BSE with volumes of one lakh ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Outlook negative for Ranbaxy, Nifty; positive for OBC
THE following strategies are based on Friday's trading in the derivatives segment on the NSE: Ranbaxy Labs: The May futures contract closed at 983. The outlook may turn negative if it trades below 978.55. The downside target range is ... More

SENSOR

Index heavyweights drive downtrend
BEARISH sentiment, rising rupee and the weakness in global markets kept the investors cautious as the markets ended the week in negative territory. The fall in index heavyweights of Satyam, Infosys, Reliance, ONGC, Wipro, Maruti, SBI, Grasim, ... More

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