The Hindu Business Line : Two-thirty factor on Thursday the thirteenth

A weekly chat on markets with Khan, Dakshinamoorthy, Sridevi and Jogin, even as a billion people are eager to know who their new netas would be. Markets are equally excited.

Jog: Hello... anybody there in cyberspace?

Dax: Here I come, choppy, choppy. :-)

Kay: That's how bourses will be this week.

Sri: Jerky ride, but tomorrow's exit poll will hit Tue trade.

Dax: Thursday action. Mark your diary.

Turning point at 2-30 p.m.

Jog: PM? I know who's going to be the next PM! ;-)

Kay: Canara, PNB, ING will be announcing results.

Banks are on a roll.

Sri: After the new law, their NPA worry has reduced.

I'm sure their prices will go up.

Dax: I'm watching Bank of Baroda. As much as

FIIs do, after RBI's relaxed norms.

Jog: Why is nobody worried about Nifty futures

quoting at a discount?

Kay: Temporary, yaar.

Money is in paper.

Dax: Or in coins and

credit card?

Kay: Serious. Keep

track of TNPL and

Rama Newsprint.

Intl newsprint prices

are up.

Sri: Elections, anxious

readers, circulation,

academic year,

stationery and books!

Dax: Kya logic, wah!

Who's keeping a list of

FII holdings? Anything special?

Jog: In auto beat, M&M has the promise of a happening

scrip.

Kay: In telecom, they're looking at Tate Teleservices

after hitting to ceiling in Bharti.

Dax: Did you read about IOB's Singapore property

company? Promoted in 1983.

Jog: That's getting merged now. How about the taste

of medicine? Sweet, isn't it.

Sri: Because our pharma companies are going out

shopping? How I wish they taught us some biotechnology

in CA!

Kay: We're using EVMs everywhere but IT is still

not in favour.

Sri: IT? Pay it! CUL8R. See you later.

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Lee, with inputs from Vir and Nat

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