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Govt flip-flop on equity return — Dealers expect bank stocks to lose interest
SHARE traders are teetering on the edge as the Finance Ministry's going back and forth on what it wants to do with the banks that plan to return equity is set to take the wind out of the sail of the recent equity market rally driven by ... More

CONSUMER FINANCE


Consumer finance fuels growth in durables sector
WANT by a colour television but don't have sufficient cash to pay? You need not worry, look around and you are sure to find a consumer finance scheme that suits your pocket. In fact, according to industry analysts, availability of consumer ... More

LIFE INSURANCE


LIC Housing Fin Q4 net up 32 pc
LIC Housing Finance Ltd has registered an increase of 31.6 per cent in net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2003 at Rs 75.95 crore, up from Rs 57.68 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. The net profit for the full ... More

FINANCIAL POLICY


Response to resident foreign currency a/c still lukewarm
WHEN the RBI announced in its credit policy review six months ago, that resident Indians would be permitted to open Resident Foreign Currency (Domestic) Accounts, (RFCD), it perhaps expected that its "relaxation" would meet with a rousing ... More

PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS


Bank of Maharashtra plans to go global
THE Chairperson of Bank of Maharashtra (BoM), Mr S.K. Basu, has said that the management is seriously thinking of `going global.' The bank, which has a domestic consumer base of 90 lakh people and net worth of Rs 980.27 crore in 2002-03 ... More

SBH net at Rs 301 cr; to pay 100 pc
STATE Bank of Hyderabad (SBH), an associate bank of State Bank of India, has posted an income of Rs 2,529 crore and a net profit of Rs 301.40 crores during 2002-03. The bank's total business during the year had increased by 16.85 per cent to Rs ... More

BoB plans corporate service branches in Chennai, Hyderabad
BANK of Baroda has decided to open two branches dedicated for corporate financial services (CFS) — one in Chennai and the other in Hyderabad. All major corporate accounts, where the relationship with the bank is at least Rs 10 crore, would ... More

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS


Outstanding liabilities top Rs 2,00,000 crore — States under pressure on sinking fund
WORRIED financial institutions (FIs) have begun exerting pressure on States to set up a sinking fund for redemption of maturing loans and for meeting guarantee liabilities. So far the States have failed to set up separate sinking fund despite ... More

GOVT BONDS


Traders expect bond yields to stay stable
BOND yields were forced to retreat during last week after aggressive intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and some profit-taking. Traders said that the RBI intervened aggressively to mop up liquidity in a bid to ensure that yields ... More

Bond days are not over yet
THE bond market has shown unprecedented strength over the last month or so. Yields have drifted lower across the curve without much volatility. We call it the magic of cash. Over Rs 30,000 crore in the repo and the standard credit contraction ... More


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