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FINANCIAL MARKETS: BoE rate-cut: Barking at the moon?
In what is being hailed as an unprecedented move in more than half a century, the Bank of England on Thursday (November 6) cut interest rates by 1.5 percentage points, beating the most optimistic expectations by half a percentage point. ...

EDITORIAL: Tackling the slowdown
If proof were needed that the organised sector of the Indian economy is globalised, look no further than the reaction of firms to the economic slowdown. What began as a knee-jerk reaction of Jet Airways, which issued marching orders to 800 ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Combating the present crisis
Since August, two perspectives have influenced the way policymakers viewed the world and India’s place in it. The first view held that India was sufficiently decoupled from the world economy’s stresses, that Indian financial ...

ECONOMY: Calibrating the inflation meter
The debate over WPI (wholesale price index) vs. CPI (consumer price index) has grown in the past few months with inflation creeping up week after week before showing a downward trend. The WPI is used as a measure of inflation in ...

ARTS & CRAFTS: Keep horn craft alive
Cuttack, the former capital of Orissa, is home to some of the rich handicraft traditions. In ancient India, Cuttack was a famous river port from where the Oriya traders, known as Sadhabas, set out for long voyages to Greece and the Indian ...

ECONOMY: Downward spiral
The economy is a peculiar animal. Like a feral horse it can kick you when you least expect it. Till a few months ago, every businessman seemed to have money and spoke of how he was going to make much more. Money was spent without let, and ...

LETTERS: Industrial relations
The Ashok Leyland management must be congratulated for agreeing to pay full wages to workers for “16 non-working days” in November and December (in the wake of drop in the demand for vehicles) in the expectation of ...

LETTERS: Shortage of funds
This is with reference to the article “A shortage of funds” (Business Line, November 10.) While we can debate at length as to whether farm waivers really help the needy, I think we should not be against bailing out the ...

LETTERS: Role of supervision
The article “Global oversight of the financial sector” (Business Line, November 10) highlights the importance of supervision. Whatever spade work done by the RBI, post-global disaster, may turn into a ...






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