The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, March 27, 2005

Commodity stocks: Hedging a possible dollar fall
The continued fall in the dollar and a weaker US economy do not augur well for most industries. There is thus a strong need to hedge the dollar decline, and commodities fit the bill. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Shangri-La economics
IF YOU are working for a professional firm, chances are your salary would have increased sizeably in the last 5-8 years. But has that improved your quality of life, or the standard of living as it is called in ... More

TAX TALK

No compulsion to give old salary details to new employer
IF AN employee fails to submit the salary certificate from his previous employer or does not furnish the particulars of the salary drawn from the previous employer in form 12B, is it necessary that the present employer ... More

From one land to another

IN FOCUS

NTPC: Better to stick to one's knitting
HOW about a newspaper publisher venturing backwards into the business of newsprint production just so that his main raw material source is protected? Or an automobile manufacturer foraying into steel production for the ... More

FUND WATCH

Reliance MF declares bonus and dividends

Reliance Mutual has declared a dividend of 50 per cent each for Reliance Vision Fund and Reliance Growth Fund and a dividend of 30 per cent of Reliance Banking Fund. The fund has declared a bonus in the ratio of 2 units for every 5 units for ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Wah! Innova
TOYOTA is one of the most envied automobile companies in the world. The ability to manufacture at low costs and yet offer extremely reliable vehicles with high quality has been instrumental in its becoming the ... More

BOOK VALUE

Diversify both your human and financial capital
YOU'RE working in the trenches, making money; but how current are you? To help stay in tune with strategies that continue to be explored, and tactics that change "almost as quickly as the markets," here is Bloomberg's ... More

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