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S VENKITARAMANAN: Bold steps to revive US economy
The present problems of the world economy are rooted in grave imbalances that have arisen in the financial system of the US, and following them, in the other advanced countries of Europe and Japan. The budget statement that President ...

A RINGSIDE VIEW: Still some hopes amid gloomy condition
Domestic funds counterbalance FII selling. Dalal Street is hoping that the Sensex October low of 7,697 points holds as the support level for this week’s three trading days. There is a divergence in fall between the Sensex and the Nifty, ...

FINANCIAL SCAN: Productive sectors pay the highest interest
The sharply descending inflation curve of recent weeks is most encouraging. At just 3 per cent year-on-year, prices are actually falling on a month-to-month basis. The significant fall in growth in Q3 of 2008-09 has softened demand and was ...

WIDE CANVAS: When trade protection is ‘legal’
When the going gets tough for countries during times of economic depression, the instinctive response is to protect domestic interests which, as far as trade is concerned, means raising barriers to protect internal jobs. On the other hand, ...

EUROSCAPE: Keeping the spirit of democracy alive
I have been watching European politicians at work for about two decades and it has been an amazing lesson on leadership integrity. In European politics, as in their business, leaders earn the ‘honourable’ designation not by words, ...

ADR WATCH: ICICI Bank hits six-year low
Satyam Computer jumps 16% on sell-off hopes. With bad news flowing in from all corners, including a Government report that 651,000 workers were laid off in February alone, the US stocks posted their biggest weekly losses in three months. The ...

OFFHAND: Freebies, the name of the game
The announcement of the schedule for the forthcoming election to the Lok Sabha presages the season of freebies. What started as free electricity to farmers now encompasses an impossibly extended spectrum of offering gratis: Dhotis, saris, ...

COMMODITY COMMENTARY: Do castor oil, derivatives and raw cotton deserve sops under special export scheme?
In the last couple of weeks, the Government has added several items to the list of commodities eligible to receive a specified fiscal benefit under the Vishesh Krishi and Gram Udyog Yojana (VKGUY - Special Farm and Village ...

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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