![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND FINANCIAL SCAN Poor monsoon scuppers revival hopes JUST when things seemed to be going better comes the bad news of failure of this year's monsoon. We are two-thirds through the rainy season but drought conditions continue in most parts of the country. Say what you will but the economy depends ... More EYE ON THE WORLD Israel-Palestine crisis: Machiavellian manoeuvres? LAST Sunday's shooting in Hebron, one of seven West Bank towns reoccupied by the Israeli army, could be the harbinger of an even more dangerous phase in the West Asian crisis. For while the 22-month-old confrontation is between the Palestinian ... More REFLECTIONS Of kurta & chai IN a starched white dhoti (worn Advani style), a white kurta and Bata's Walk Master slip-ons, Lachman Singh looked like actor Om Puri except for the earrings stitched to the ear lobes. We decided to go to the city to buy a few khadi ... More SAY CHEEK Harassment & Generation X ONE of the severest punishments meted out to students in the primary section, about 30 years ago, was to make them sit with those of the other sex. I remember how boys would turn red in the face and girls go close to tears when faced with such ... More ON MINT STREET The more unhealthy, the merrier SEEMINGLY, the RBI and the Finance Ministry seem to have decided against any banking or financial entity to go under. That explains the complex exercises to bale out UTI and IFCI and could be extended to others whenever they go belly up. Going by ... More APPRAISAL Private banks `other income' slides in Q1 THE profit party seems to be coming to an end for banks that are seeing their "other income" sliding once again. Old private banks have been hit hard in the first quarter of the current fiscal. Although net profits went up by just 13.55 per ... More EAR TO THE GROUND Widia India open offer at Rs 75? WIDIA India was in the limelight on Tuesday. According to dealers, the market talk is that an open offer will be at a price of about Rs 75 per share for the minority shareholders. Recently, it was reported that Meturit AG, the foreign promoter of ... More ON THE HEDGE Buy puts on price upticks THE following are some buy/sell strategies based on Tuesday's trading in the derivatives segment at the NSE: Equity options: The immediate outlook on Infosys appears positive, but the stock is unlikely to consolidate on the upside. ... More SENSOR Infosys sneaks through when others fall AFTER staging a fleeting recovery on Monday's trading, the BSE Sensex, not only breached the psychological low of 3000 points, but also stayed below that level during the day's trading. The BSE Sensex closed at 2990.91 points, a sharp decline of ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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