The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 10, 2003

Same boat
PEOPLE everywhere are in the same boat, as far as the working of Governments is concerned. It is necessary to remind ourselves of this when we are particularly harsh on public agencies in our own country. Things are no better even in countries ... More

WIDE CANVAS

Majority versus minority
The rights enjoyed by the minority in a parliamentary democracy are equal in all respects to those enjoyed by the majority. More

ON THE MOVE

Wharfage for SBM — CoPT, KRL at loggerheads
FIRST it was location. Now it is wharfage. The tussle between the Cochin Port Trust (CoPT) and Kochi Refineries Limited (KRL) over the proposed single buoy mooring (SBM) project will never stop. Or so it seems. Fortunately the location issue has ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Market lacks direction as war worries linger
STOCK markets have never cared about legitimacy of war; they invariably reacted negatively. To prove this point once again, indices across the globe plunged into the red amid stepped up manoeuvrings. The US indices sprang back soon after ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Challenging time for fund trackers
THERE isn't a dull moment for mutual fund watchers, and as last week's events showed, life can really throw up challenges for them. Yes, one is talking about the volatility that was witnessed by investors in both debt and equity funds. In ... More

ADR WATCH

Infy premium drops
THE stock market in the US fell for the sixth week in last eight weeks as US appeared to be made up its mind to strike Iraq even without a United Nations permission. For the week, the Dow fell 1.9 per cent to 7740.03; the Standard & Poor's 500 ... More

VISION 2020

Blame not the drought
Blaming drought for low growth does not wash. The growth rate this year has been abysmal because the urban economy has not performed as it should have, and not because the rural economy has been hit by drought. And more than drought, corruption has s lowed the economy down. Political corruption and hypocrisy are the problems, says P. V. Indiresan More

STOCKS TO WATCH

United Phosphorus: Restructuring to be fruitful?
UNITED Phosphorous may see some action with the company's board meeting next week to consider a restructuring of its businesses with that of Search Chem, its subsidiary. The board meeting is scheduled to be held on March 14. The low ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

A lazy buffalo in a jazzy jet
A COMMON photo theme is to show a bullock-cart going past an IT company, or an astrologer with a parrot under a billboard that advertises matrimony on the web. And one of the first things that foreign tourists want to see when they come here is ... More

RANDOM WALK

Women in Kerala: engendered or endangered?
The paradox of the status of women in Kerala lies in the confusion between `gender equality' and `gender equity'. The notion of gender equality assumes that the needs and interests of women and men are identical, whereas the notion of gender equity p resumes they are different. More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Cotton futures to head lower
NYCE cotton futures closed and rallied higher on speculative and option related buying closing at a two year high on Friday. With US cotton sales, reaching over 300,000 running bales (RBs, 500-lbs) as per the last weekly USDA export sales ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

Those workplace myths are true!
EACH organisation has its own distinct culture. This has to do with the set of beliefs and values that transcend the managers who come and go. Outwardly, it may have to do with visible features, such as the formal or informal nature of clothing ... More

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