The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 02, 2003

Hotlining with the city cops
THIS week, New York will witness high-profile corporate scandal trials such as that of Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco's former chief, as also Frank Quattrone of Credit Suisse First Boston. These would bear out what the US ... More

IMPRESSIONS

For better, far worse
Narayanasami and his wife were filled with pride when their just-married daughter in the US called up one morning to say that she had landed a job despite the downturn there. How lucky! That was what they thought ... More

REFLECTIONS

Enchanting journey
The sunlight, diluted by rain clouds, did not touch the roads being held back by the crowns of the rain trees. Somehow we knew the trip would be good. More

DOWN TO EARTH

Let's start from the scratch
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition, s ays Sharad Joshi. More

ON MINT STREET

Why not a single PLR sans RBI push?
A LARGE number of players on the Mint Street are betting on a cut in Bank Rate from 6 per cent to 5.75 per cent coupled to similar drops in CRR and repo in the October credit policy. Willy nilly, Dr Y.V. Reddy, Governor, RBI, will have to ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Healthy order for Nucleus Soft
AT a time when majority of the market players are sceptical about IT stocks, a section of the market is slowly accumulating the stock of Nucleus Software. The talk in the market is that the company has a healthy order book position from its ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Tata Steel: Outlook positive, buy October 280 calls
THE following strategies are based on Wednesday's trading in the derivatives segment on the NSE: Equity options Tata Steel: The outlook on this stock is positive. The upside price target is Rs 320. The downside risk level is Rs ... More

SENSOR

Select stocks shine on a day of dull trade
MARKETS remained range-bound on what was a day of lacklustre trading. Trading action was confined to select stocks, notably in the automobile and pharma sector, apart from those stocks that were driven by company-specific developments. The ... More

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