The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, July 27, 2002

First India open to 'desi' synergies with MetLife
FIRST India Mutual Fund, which has Metropolitan Life as one of its overseas partners, has not ruled out the possibility of establishing synergies with MetLife's insurance operations in India. Such synergies would stem from closer co-operation ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Bear onslaught
BEARS were in total command of Friday's trading activity. Bulls were unable to make any impact during the day's trading. None of the counters in the tradable list is in the uptrend. The sentiment reading of the tradable counters stands strongly ... More

STOCK MARKETS

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HLL market cap falls Rs 1,600 cr — Analysts lower sights on poor monsoon
FMCG major Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) lost Rs 1,600 crore of its market capitalisation in a single day today and more than Rs 19,000 crore over the past five months. Several analysts, expecting slow rural demand pick-up due to a patchy monsoon, ... More

Cipla firm on drug supply talk
PHARMA major Cipla is one of the few stocks that showed some resilience on Friday. Market sources said that the pressure eased on rumours that the company is in talks for supplying either bulk or formulation drug that is currently under Para IV ... More

DERIVATIVES MARKETS

Single stock futures continue to dominate
The following are some observations based on the trading statistics provided in the NSE report on the futures and options (F&O):

Single-stock futures continue to account for a sizable proportion of the F&O segment. It constituted 70 per ... More

HLL: Opt for spot
THE following are some buy/sell strategies based on Friday's trading in the derivatives segment at the NSE: Equity options: HLL may reverse direction after hitting its immediate support level of Rs 165. The immediate upside, however, ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

SEBI forms panel to consider full automation
SEBI has set up a committee to examine the feasibility of introduction of straight through processing (STP) to automate the entire process from trade initiation to settlement. The committee is headed by the SEBI Executive Director, Mr R.M. ... More

COMMENTARY

IT stocks get a drubbing; ITC flares up
STOCK prices across all segments registered a notable fall on Friday. The Sensex is now precariously poised just above the 3,000 levels — a level that it has not seen since early November 2001. On the BSE, the Sensex declined by 2.28 per ... More

IPOS

Naik sticks to IPO plan for BPCL, HPCL
THE Petroleum Minister, Mr Ram Naik, on Friday stuck to his stated position on the need for an initial public offering (IPO) for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) prior to the strategic ... More

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HLL market cap falls Rs 1,600 cr — Analysts lower sights on poor monsoon

`Infotech industry to touch $46 b in 2006'

Revamp not to affect top brass of Indal, Hindalco: K.M. Birla

Watch out! Women at work

RBI dividend even before auditors are through

In Depth
Gender Justice

Simple Economics

Small Investor

Looking back
Jul. 14-Jul. 20
`Market recovery by Sept likely' — Mr Krishnamurthy Vijayan, CEO, JM Capital

Sify may be out of Nasdaq listing soon

NSE plans index product mirroring market swings

Equity yields lower: CMIE