The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 19, 2009

OPINION

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: The industrial downturn
Even as India’s stock markets are staging a recovery from the depths they have mined, disconcerting news emerges from elsewhere in the economy regarding the effects of the global crisis. The two main channels through which the global crisis ...

EDITORIAL: Market needs a reality check
As predicted by many, the stock market has greeted the victory of the Congress-led alliance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections by bidding up prices, yet so steeply that trading at the country’s stock exchanges had to be halted ...

FOREX: Perilous state of the dollar
The US dollar is bearing the brunt of the blame as critics reemerge to vilify its position as the world’s reserve currency. Concerns about many aspects of the US economy have resurfaced following the unprecedented financial commitments made ...

POLITICS: Ushering in ‘clean, honest politics’
Now that the Constitutional as well as political process of forming a new government at the Centre has started in right earnest, each section of opinion in the country will be fantasising about its own dream team. In fact, some prominent figures ...

POLITICS: Now, to make it a rational exuberance
The euphoria over the phenomenal performance of the United Progressive Alliance, particularly the Congress, in this election, is getting a little scary. Particularly when seen in the context of the stock market on ...

LETTERS: Reinventing Congress
The UPA emerging victorious will hopefully pave the way for a stable government that is critical in these turbulent ...

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 • S Venkitaramanan

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Markets (May 18)

Nifty (at close)	4,323.15(+651.50)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)	47.88/89
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs	2,476
Gold (a gram) Rs	1,364
Silver (a kg) Rs	22,250

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