Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, May 20, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, May 20, 2002 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND ON THE MOVE Is business sailing away from S'pore? IS MALAYSIA set to usurp Singapore's role as a regional shipping and transport hub? So it appears, if the recent development is any indication, according to shipping sources. Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corporation, a major global container ... More A RINGSIDE VIEW Markets send out gloom signals THE sentiment in the stock market dipped last week following escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan. According to market players and analysts, the spectre of a war-like situation is likely to keep the market depressed this week ... More POLICY WATCH Money laundering through ECBs? AFTER the end of each financial year in March, it has been a customary practice for the Finance Ministry to review its External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) policy. At the peak of the demand for overseas borrowings in 1996-97 and 1997-98, the ... More MUTUAL CONFIDENCE Fund of funds - Will it take off in India? THE domestic MF scenario, as everybody acknowledges by now, is turning more mature and colourful. Yet, a few key elements are still missing, and it may well take some more time to develop them as part of the system. Among these are `fund of ... More ADR WATCH Infy in the limelight IT was one of the pleasant weeks for the US markets as investors displayed growing confidence in the stocks. The markets rebounded on strong note on better-than-expected earnings by corporate majors such as Wal-Mart Stores, Dell Computer Corp and ... More FOCUS 
Reliance makes it big with IPCLTHE acquisition of 26 per cent equity stake in Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL) by Reliance Industries from the Government is a watershed event, both for the privatisation process and for the domestic petrochemicals industry. The ... More VISION 2020 Vision 2020: The culture of Injelititis TECHNOLOGY Day was celebrated with great fanfare on May 11, the day chosen to commemorate the second Pokhran explosion. Indian technology has indeed much to celebrate. It can boast many technological achievements but not, as yet, any major export ... More SAY CHEEK The quest for Enron-proofing WHAT the Taliban did to WTC and the global economy, the Enron-Andersen duo did to the accounting profession. While a positive fallout of September 11 has been the increased awareness of people the world over to the need for better security, ... More TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Scope for NY cotton to move up COTTON futures on the New York Cotton Exchange settled with moderate gains on Friday in a thinly-traded session mainly dominated by local and speculative activity. Good trade buying and the weaker US currency managed to buoy for the entire ... More AMERICAN PERISCOPE 
Stock options can be good, bad and uglyIT is a wonderful idea to give employees stock in the company. It takes the notion of egalitarianism and capitalism to idealistic levels. Can you imagine Karl Marx standing at the factory gates exhorting the workers to break their chains while ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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