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Sterlite to buy out Asarco at lower cost in a new deal
Copper price crash helps reduce acquisition costs by $900 m. Mumbai, March 7 Vedanta Resources group company Sterlite Industries has signed a new agreement with copper mining company Asarco of the US to buy its operating assets for ...

Hedging offsets gain on rupee for exporters
Mumbai, March 7 The depreciating rupee has brought some cheer to exporters. But the slowdown in international demand is forcing exporters to give discounts to buyers denting their ...



Balancing family budget: ...
Global funds: Only some deliver
International or global funds, a relatively new offering for Indian investors, have acquitted themselves well in the year or more since they were flagged off. As a class, these funds have contained their NAV losses better their domestic ...


Satyam gets time till March 31 to restate Q3 numbers
Hyderabad, March 7 Satyam Computer Services, which has got the SEBI clearance to go ahead with global bidding to induct a strategic investor, has sought time till March 31 to announce the results of third quarter ended December ...

Sensex picture better on consolidated results
BL Research Bureau Leading Indian companies reported better growth based on their consolidated operations for the December quarter than they did on a standalone ...

Index Outlook
The might of the bulls was severely tested last week as the Sensex helplessly sliced through one support after another. The slide was finally reined just above the 8000 mark. Frantic cuts in policy rates by the Reserve Bank of India, Bank ...

Bharti Airtel: Buy
Investments with a one-, two-year horizon may be made in the shares of Bharti Airtel. The company’s continuing leadership in the mobile division, increasing strength of its enterprise carrier division and improvement in the tenancy in ...

Accumulate these stocks
Investors with a long-term perspective can consider accumulating the Lupin stock, now trading at Rs 590. Steady growth in revenues over the years combined with strong presence in key target markets such as the US, the EU and Japan, besides ...

Suzlon Energy: Buy
Investors with an over three-year perspective can consider accumulating the stock of Suzlon Energy. While there is no denying that Suzlon is the least decoupled from the global slowdown and is also plagued by internal challenges such as ...

Zee News: Buy
Investors with a two-year horizon can consider accumulating the shares of Zee News (Zee), a news and regional entertainment broadcaster, considering the leading viewer-ship position for several of its channels and strength in ...

HSBC Dynamic: Invest
Investors can consider adding the HSBC Dynamic Fund to their portfolio. Though the fund is relatively new , it has done well to contain its downside in turbulent markets. Not only has it significantly outpaced its benchmark, the BSE 200 but ...

IDFC Dynamic Bond: Invest
Investors looking to diversify their exposure in debt can consider investing small amounts in IDFC Dynamic Bond Fund. True to its name, the fund has been actively managing its debt portfolio and making tactical shifts between long and short ...

Let’s talk mergers…
The spotlight is now on mergers, with the RIL-RPL deal just around the corner, but despite the deluge of news updates and analysis, mergers may still make little sense if the concepts and terms involved are not clear. Here’s taking a ...

Corporate India looks at pruning executive salaries
Bid to counter economic slowdown. Chennai/Mumbai, March 7 Corporate India is now looking at cutting executive salaries as it continues to grapple with the economic slowdown and come up with ways to ...

Weekly News Round-up(Latest Audio:Enlgish/Tamil))
Sending a strong signal to banks to lower lending rates, the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday cut repo and reverse repo rates by half a percentage point each with immediate effect. With the latest cut, the repo, the rate at which the RBI ...

Infosys eyeing acquisitions in Germany, France, Japan
Keen on consulting, BPO segments. Hyderabad, March 7 Infosys Technologies is looking for acquisitions in France, Germany and Japan in the consulting, business process outsourcing (BPO) and few ...

Index Exchange Traded Funds — Buy the market
The 60 per cent decline in broad markets over the past year and valuations that are well below ten-year averages make this a good time to make lumpsum investments in a basket of stocks. But having decided to do that, what should you buy? If ...

For the economy’s second coming, policymakers whistle in the wind
Mr Chidambaram may be at Home but he cannot help think Finance. As the chief cheerleader of the organised economy’s dream run all these five years, he remains robustly optimistic that this downturn the world over and particularly in ...


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