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HOUSING FINANCE: LIC Housing Finance (Rs 227.15): Buy
We recommend a buy in LIC Housing Finance from a short-term trading perspective. It is apparent from the charts of LIC Housing Finance that after encountering significant resistance at Rs 350 in early September, it began to decline and was on ...

GOVT BONDS: Bond prices rally on talk of rate cut
Mumbai, Dec. 30 Bond prices rallied by over Rs 2 on Tuesday on expectations that the Reserve Bank of India would cut key interest rates ...

INSIGHT: Bonds back in favour after 4 years as equities dive
2008 saw RBI mopping up money supply, later injecting liquidity. Bangalore, Dec. 30 Battered by huge capital losses in equity markets, bonds returned to become the flavour for investors, after almost four ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Short-term consolidation in rupee
The rupee had been steadily appreciating since 2002 and it was widely believed in the first few months of 2008 that the dollar rupee rate could even rise up to 36. But the Indian currency unit has outdone the most pessimistic forecast ...

FOREX: Rupee closes flat
The rupee closed flat against the dollar on Tuesday, amidst thin trading volumes ahead of the year end. The currency opened at 48.45 and touched an intra-day low of 48.65. It closed at 48.48, against Monday’s close ...

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT: Corp Bank library in Karaikudi
The Union Home Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, inaugurated the ‘Alagappa University-Corporation Bank Public Library’ at Karaikudi on December 28. A bank release said here on Tuesday that the Minister complimented Corporation Bank for ...

SHORT TERM INSTRUMENTS: Call rates steady
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INSURANCE: Slowdown clips insurance sector growth: IRDA
Hyderabad, Dec. 30 The insurance sector is set to witness a lower year on year growth of about 17 per cent this fiscal as against a 24-25 per cent it logged in previous financial year, according to Mr J. Hari Narayan, Chairman of ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Panel moots term liquidity facility for banks
New Delhi, Dec. 30 If the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) agree to the proposal, loan assets could be used by banks for availing themselves of short-term refinancing facility from the central bank for a duration longer ...

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT: SBI Life to help restore vision
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PERFORMANCE: Dakshina Kannada banks achieve Rs 18,770-cr biz
Mangalore, Dec. 30 Banks in Dakshina Kannada district have achieved business level of Rs 18,770 crore as on September ...

HOUSING FINANCE: ‘Housing finance cos must cut rates’
Kolkata, Dec. 30 Housing finance companies should reduce lending rates in order to boost the home loan demand, said Mr S Sridhar, Chairman and Managing Director, National Housing Bank, here ...

INSIGHT: Clearing the forest of zeros
The half-page multicolour advertisement stood out in the regional print media even in the cacophony of the electoral campaign of Assembly elections in five States. The advertisement was issued by the Government of India and flashed a ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Crisis: Beyond textbook solutions
It’s the question on everyone’s lips. Will 2009 see the revival of the global economy and recovery of ...





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Markets (Dec 30)
Nifty (at close)2979.50(+57.30)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)48.47/49
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs1,709
Gold (a gram) Rs1,253
Silver (a kg) Rs18,600

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