The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 24, 2003

UN and unilateralism
IT is funny how the word `un'ilateralism itself reflects the prevailing reality by indistinguishably subsuming the UN within itself! The unipolar world order and the unilateralist postures of the US, since the demise of the Soviet Union, have ... More

WIDE CANVAS

For whom the bell tolls
AS FAR as India is concerned, it is still too early to say whether the ongoing conflict between the Washington-London coalition and Mr Saddam Hussein's Iraq will affect the economy severely although it is very clear that, in the normal course, ... More

ON THE MOVE

Steel products movement — Railways boxed in by wagon shortage
STEEL Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has set for 2003-04 a production target of 10.79 million tonnes (mt) of saleable steel, up 0.82 mt over this fiscal's 9.97 mt. From transportation point of view, it means the Railways will be required to ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

War signals to fuel direction
STOCK markets this week will by and large remain hostage to the raging war in the Gulf. A lot will depend on the crude oil price movement. Dalal Street is aware that the market is skating on thin ice. Any major negative news flow from Iraq can ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Birla's IAF returns 13.81 pc last year
INDIA Advantage Fund (IAF), managed by Birla Sun Life MF, must be one of the first funds of its kind, launched as it was way back in August 1996. It came as a nice surprise when the fund house recently came up with a lot of details on IAF, ... More

GLOBAL MONITOR

War-led volatility in gold
GOLD continued to be extremely volatile depending on the current sentiment towards military action in Iraq last week. Last Friday provided a fine example of this - with gold holding support above the key level of $ 330 an ounce as it had done all ... More

ADR WATCH

Infotech counters shine; Infy widens premium to 45 pc
WITH the US-led force bombarding Iraq, markets across-the-globe went up sharply as investors expected the war to be over in a short time. The hope has lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its biggest weekly gain in more than 20 years. ... More

HEALTH-SCAN

From silence to the world of sound
WHEN 17-year-old Durai Murugan, a Plus Two student of a school near Chennai, lost his hearing, following an attack of mumps and a desperate round of visits to medical experts proved in vain, he and his parents attempted suicide by consuming ... More

VISION 2020

Sweet mango and insipid water
In the five years in office, the Centre has produced many mangoes — the Lahore accord, the Kargil victory, Pokhran, and several promising Budgets too — but these have been followed by something trite that took away all the excitement, lea ving only an insipid taste. P. V. Indiresan wonders why. More

SAY CHEEK

The story behind `shock and awe'
SHOCK and awe is when we see Australia score runs after runs, off the `no' balls and the `yes' balls, right in the first over. S&A - to abbreviate the awesome phrase and thus reduce its shocking effect - is when you go to the doc with a ... More

STOCKS TO WATCH

Blue Star: Stake sale to cool?
THE share prices of the two companies could attract market attention during the week, consequent to Blue Star's proposal to sell its stake in Yokogawa Blue Star to Yokogawa Electric Corporation of Japan. Blue Star's board is set to meet on ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Mirage of service in a spectrum of colours
WE live in a digital world, where they no longer teach you what the time is if the long hand is at 5 and the short hand at 4. Music is digital, info on train arrivals and departures is digital, desktops are likewise and everything seems to move ... More

RANDOM WALK

A cross of iron
For Kerala, long a globalised State with particularly strong ties to the Gulf region, the implications of the war are mixed. More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

NY cotton seen consolidating
NYCE cotton futures finished fractionally lower in listless deals due to very light sales by small speculators as the market consolidated further after surging to a two-year peak last week. Fibre demand will remain robust in the coming months, ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

In this globalised world
EVEN though my spell checker does not like the word, globalisation is here to stay. We use the term most often to mean the spread of businesses across the globe, and the breakdown of barriers, voluntary or involuntary, between nations. At a more ... More

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