Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, September 23, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, September 23, 2002 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND Plight of elderly HELPAGE India has taken the commendable initiative of launching a "Join Hands Campaign" to restore to the elderly their basic entitlement of life with dignity. About time too. There has been a conspicuous increase in life expectancy in every ... More WIDE CANVAS Export benefits of FDI THE most important point about the UNCTAD annual survey World Investment Report 2002 is that it focusses on foreign direct investment-induced export competitiveness at a time when there is a great churning in India on the future of FDI itself. ... More ON THE MOVE LASHed, but not out The lighter aboard ship (LASH), a vessel for carrying barges, was considered a significant breakthrough in ocean transportation. But, with the rise of containerisation, LASH operations worldwide have taken a beating. While it might be premature to pr edict a bleak future for LASH shipping, it is likely to remain a niche operation. More A RINGSIDE VIEW Settlement in futures segment may influence direction According to certain market participants, the first couple of day's trading is likely to be linked to the Government's posture on the disinvestment issue and to some extent to the US market signals. More POLICY WATCH Down goes the grade! IN the old days, whenever the Spring or Fall meeting of the Fund Bank took place in Washington, you could count on the top bosses in North Block to dine out with the senior management of rating agency majors, Standard and Poor's or Moodys. The ... More MUTUAL CONFIDENCE Short-term plans: Will they sparkle? SHORT-TERM debt funds have lately changed the way the market looks at investments in mutual funds. Positioned between liquid and income funds, the short-term options are currently being used by a large section of investors for various reasons. ... More GLOBAL MONITOR Gold testing resistance GOLD last week witnessed two-way movement on reports both positive and not so positive. Continued threat of military action, more producer dehedging news, heavy losses in global equity markets and weak US dollar all contributed to the upward ... More ADR WATCH Interest perks up in HDFC Bank THE US markets declined further as expectations for a rebound in corporate earnings faded out following companies including JP Morgan Chase & Co and Electronic Data Systems trimming their profit growth. As a result, the S&P 500 dropped 5 per ... More VISION 2020 
Vision 2020: Policies at fault, not economyThe Government has created jobs by edict in the hope that demand for them will pick up later. Unfortunately, employment is not a tree that can stand by itself but a creeper that has to cling to the existing demands of the economy. It would be logical to create demand first for new goods and services, and use that extra demand as the basis for new jobs, argues P. V. Indiresan. More SAY CHEEK E-smile in e-mails SMILEYS are 20 years old, if we go by the story that attributes its origin to a mail that Scott Fahlman, a computer science researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, sent in September 1981. Known also as emoticons, the typical smiley ... More TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Cotton prices seen moving up NYCE cotton futures closed on Friday on wary speculative buying tied partly to questions about the direction of hurricane Isidore and unwanted rain drenching cotton growing US Deltas. Heavy rains from Isidore are not welcome for farmers in ... More AMERICAN PERISCOPE When severance is a time for grab IT HAS been a tradition in corporate life that one leaves a senior position with a comfortable retirement package. After all, when in power, the executive was maintained in superior comfort, teo reflect the fact that he or she made decisions ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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