The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 14, 2009

COLUMNS

FINANCIAL SCAN: Forex speculation drives corporate losses
Apart from the poor operating results of manufacturing companies in Q3 of 2008-9, there was a nasty surprise. Practically all, be they giants or SMEs, have incurred large foreign exchange ...

REASSESSMENT: Clearing the air on services
Just as it is very difficult to find a needle in a haystack, Indian tax laws have been finding it equally difficult to segregate a service element in a composite contract. The State of Madras vs Gannon Dunkerley [(1958) 9 ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh

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Markets (Feb 12)

Nifty (at close)	2,893.05(-32.65)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)	48.84/85
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs	2,162
Gold (a gram) Rs	1,369
Silver (a kg) Rs	23,080

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