![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, April 01, 2002 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW
Path to posterity lies in prosperityMUCH has been written about the recklessly optimistic and spendthrift ways of the American consumers. They seem to be a defiantly optimistic lot. One is at a loss to understand what exactly are they defying. It cannot be the state of their ... More ON THE MOVE Birganj ICD commissioning -- Can the delay be contained? The authorities have to find ways and means to cope with the transport lobby to keep the Birganj ICD running. First, the Government may have to issue orders making rail movement of containers mandatory. Another way could be to categorise cargoes to b e moved by the railways and roadways. More A RINGSIDE VIEW Fireworks unlikely to herald new fiscal in capital market THE mood in the domestic capital market is not quite upbeat for the coming week, which is also the first week of the new financial year. The coming week is neither expected to witness any major positive action, nor any big disappointment. The ... More POLICY WATCH Record $1-b IBRD loan retired last fiscal THE weekend marked the end of 2001-02 fiscal, signalling a landmark. This is not because of the dismantling of administered pricing mechanism in the oil and gas sector, ironically on April Fool's Day, but due to the amount of gross inflows ... More MUTUAL CONFIDENCE MFs see signs of positive trend in equity markets A month after the Budget, and with the impact of the tax provisions relating to mutual funds sinking in fully, it may be a good idea to note what fund managers are now stating in their communiqués. On the equity side, there is a jumble of ... More ADR WATCH Premium rises for Infosys INFOSYS Technologies saw its ADR premium widen considerably vis-a-vis the underlying domestic equity at the US markets last week. Infosys ADR now trades at a healthy premium of 71.07 per cent compared with 63.58 per cent during the previous ... More AMERICAN PERISCOPE Making the corporation listen and act IN 1809, Sweden appointed its first ombudsman, a neutral official who would receive and investigate reports of abuses by public officials. This was a parallel channel of information and authority that came with the belief that the regular ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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