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MONEY & BANKING
PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS:
Benefit from home loan swap
If you thought only crude oil prices have fallen drastically to 2006 levels, think again; with the recent spate of interest rate cuts in home loans by SBI, the rate offered by the bank is back to its ...
DEBT MARKET:
Debt funds: Is an encore possible?
For those who turned active investors after 2004, debt funds as an option would have seemed least appealing, given the measly single-digit returns in contrast to the multi-baggers among equity funds. But as the tide turned on equity, debt funds ...
FOREIGN BANKS:
Barclays Bank bucks trend, reassures all stakeholders
Mumbai, Feb. 14 Several reputed banks in major economies have fallen by the wayside in the global financial crisis. Banks in the UK have been vulnerable and one of the worst hit even as the country has now entered recession ...
ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES:
Health project with World Bank signed
New Delhi, Feb. 14 India has signed a financing agreement of national vector borne disease control and polio eradication support project with the World ...
FIXED DEPOSITS:
Bank deposits: Optimal choice for short-term exposure?
Most investors want to increase their exposure to fixed-income securities, given the high downside risk in stocks. Several posed us this question: Are bond funds good investments now, even if interest rates increase after a year? Or are ...
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