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  • Can they really do anything?

    ON THE MOVE


    `Clouded' maritime training horizon?
    India is the largest supplier of trained manpower to the global shipping industry. The global demand for marine officers is expected to go up in the next five years. Therefore, there is a need to formulate a maritime manpower policy. More

    A RINGSIDE VIEW


    `Support seen at current levels'
    THE stock market is expecting a corrective rally this week. According to brokers and analysts, whether the rally will sustain till the end of the week is a matter of conjecture. Mr Vivek Mahajan, a broker-analyst, said a smart rally in the ... More

    POLICY WATCH


    Where have the bond salesmen gone?
    FOR a good part of the last decade, it used to be a ritualistic exercise every year at the spring meetings of the Fund-Bank in Washington and closer home in North Block. Of suave salesmen from global investment banks pitching hard with the ... More

    MUTUAL CONFIDENCE


    Funds catching up with mid-cap stocks
    THE mood is definitely not upbeat for investors in equity funds, not with last week's slide in the stock exchanges. NAVs are down, and so is the average investor's willingness to commit more to the markets. Mutual funds are nevertheless ... More

    GLOBAL MONITOR


    Gold suddenly turns vulnerable
    IN a dramatic development last week, gold collapsed with a precipitous fall of $10 an ounce on a single day and $20 over the week. This has evoked jittery reaction from participants who are unsure about the market behaviour in the coming ... More

    ADR WATCH


    Bad week for Indian counters
    IT was one of the smart recoveries at the US markets, particularly for the Dow Jones Industrial Average index, after the markets were reeling under selling pressure with as many corporates' unethical means came to the open. A survey that ... More

    VISION 2020


    Vision 2020: The connectivity mantra
    IN THE past few weeks, three different versions of a future vision for India have been presented for the edification of the public. The Planning Commission has put out the National Human Development Report. The Prime Minister has talked of 8 per ... More

    SAY CHEEK


    The Big Four bash
    IT has always been so easy to divide the accountants — because they deal with too many divisions all the time. Every transaction has two aspects, debit and credit. You put money in bank or cash box. At the end of the day you make profit ... More

    TECHNICAL ANALYSIS


    Cotton prices may go up
    Cotton futures on the New York Cotton Exchange settled slightly lower on Friday, as prices traded within a range amidst general lack of direction. Support that might have derived from a better domestic consumption figure released earlier on ... More

    AMERICAN PERISCOPE


    Turmoil in corporate capitalism
    THE Business Roundtable is an association of chief executive officers of major corporations in the US. (Of course, that should include Enron, WorldCom, Polaroid and their ilk.) They published a full-page advertisement in the newspapers in the ... More
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  • Top Stories
    Taking freight forward, scientifically


    `BPL is going through mid-course corrections' — Mr H.N. Srinivas, Senior Vice-President, HR

    FDI confidence — While Asean revives, India struggles

    More cos switching over to digital signature

    Consumer durables growth at faster clip: Ascon study

    Gold suddenly turns vulnerable

    In Depth
    Gender Justice
    Simple Economics
    Small Investor
    Looking back
    Jul. 21-Jul. 27
    Creation of new railway zones — How will rail users benefit?

    Corporate sanctity — MNCs' double standards

    Harassment blues to the fore

    RBI dividend even before auditors are through


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