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OFFHAND
Citizens' initiative
Do not curse darkness, light a little candle! True to this motto, seven apolitical NGOs in Chennai and five in Coimbatore, have decided to join hands and put up candidates for the coming elections to the ...
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SAY CHEEK
Dig into the Guv's bulletin to stock your statistics quiver
Total `money stock' in the country comprises not only notes and coins, but also deposits with banks, both demand and time.
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COMING TO TERMS
Beverages, biases and politics
These days `beverage' is getting more than average attention. "Coke and Pepsi stumble in India," reads the headline of Amelia Gentleman's article dated August 22 in International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com). She mentions that ...
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GLEANINGS
Where salary overshadows sales
The annual basic salary of Rs 4,26,000 for a company's executive director (ED) may not seem much. But the case of Kolkata-based Hindustan Wires Ltd is interesting because the company's sales, at Rs 75,000 for the year ended March 31, are just ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Paper stocks up on price rise talk
Paper stocks have been active of late on market expectation of a rise in product prices. JK Paper on Wednesday informed a hike of Rs 1,000 a tonne on coated paper from September 1. Stocks such as Seshasayee Paper (11.3 per cent), JK Paper (9.8 ...
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Helios jumps on bonus hopes
The Helios and Matheson stock has been surging at the stock market with increased trading volumes. The stock has gained 16 per cent week-on-week basis and 36 per cent on a month-on-month basis. Trading volumes moved up to 2.35 lakh shares against ...
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SENSOR
Buying at lower levels props up Sensex; metals shine
The markets opened lower tracking the weak global markets, but thanks to bottom-fishing and buying at lower levels the indices recovered more than what they shed during the early trade. Sustained buying in both the large cap and other select ...
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