The Hindu Business Line : Friday, September 19, 2008

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S GURUMURTHY: Ventilator to escalator: The intriguing dollar story
Here is a fascinating story. It was the US, in the early 1970s, that had redefined the rules of currency pricing and made it rest on economic fundamentals and free market mechanism. But today its currency is defying the very rules the rest of ...

BL CLUB: Mr Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Commerce, Industry and Power; SRM University
Chennai, Sept. 18 The Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Power, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Thursday called for more public funding in education. He said that a ‘public-funded, private-run’ model would be the ...

ON THE HEDGE: Nifty index futures’ volume hits year high
Intense short covering in ICICI Bank. Turnover spurted sharply on the NSE to Rs 74,094.75 crore against Wednesday’s volume of Rs 58,546.48 crore in the F&O segment. The volume of contracts traded for Index futures at 12.94 lakh was the ...

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Markets (Sept 18)

Nifty (at close)	4038.15(+29.30)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)	46.74/75
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs	4,278
Gold (a gram) Rs	1,177
Silver (a kg) Rs	20,000

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