The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 15, 2005

Introspection day
THE Independence Day this year has turned out to be different because of the pall of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 cast on it by the Nanavati Commission's report, and the unpleasant after-taste of the messy handling of it by the government. If a ... More

WIDE CANVAS

Where is world oil headed?
There are differences among specialists about which way oil prices will go. As past events have proved, to a large extent, the price level is determined by the expectations of the futures investor and, perhaps, to a smaller extent by the realities of the supply-demand situation. It remains to be seen which way the scales will tip. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Oil may ground FII flow, benchmarks
A STEEP rise in global crude oil price has suddenly clouded the stock market sentiment. According to some oil analysts, a number of supply disruptions and falling output have given way to serious apprehensions that the brent may hit $70 a ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Concerted effort to guide investors is need of the hour
CHANCES are that you will never meet Mr Jayanta Ghosh. He is recently retired, has strong views on subjects that range from politics to medical science, and lives in an airy suburban house. The man is also very baffled. His bafflement stems from ... More

ADR WATCH

ICICI Bank jumps, VSNL slips
IT was a mixed feeling at the US bourses with Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P-500 ending on positive note even as the tech-focussed Nasdaq suffered. Helped by the firmness in energy stocks on account of record oil prices, the DJ Average and More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

You may speak as small as you will
Jerry Hall, he was so small, a rat could eat him, hat and all. That's what we learned as a nursery rhyme. I'm sure Jerry would have grown up, just as we did, though that frightful line may now well suit small and medium enterprises (SME), deep in ... More

RANDOM WALK

Fishing for labour
LAST week, towards the fag end of the 12th Session of the 11th Kerala Legislative Assembly, Mr K. Radhakrishnan, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), raised a submission that received ... More

EX PARTE

Some `books' are to be searched for
O, let my books be then the eloquence, writes the Bard in one of his sonnets. But the customs case of Gujarat Perstorp Electronics Ltd and Pearl Engineering Polymers Ltd that was decided upon by the apex court on August 5 was eloquence about ... More

CHAT

Some strange bull leap'd your father's cow!
Khan was drying his papers on the ironing table, Sridevi sat listening to patriotic songs to celebrate the Independence Day, while Jogin was trying to find parallels for the killing of Kadirgamar in Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal. But ... More

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