The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 09, 2010

Retail investors enter SIPs at high levels, stop at lows
Follow Sensex movement; new accounts up 50% in June quarter. Retail investors in mutual funds are known to chase returns, making large investments at market highs and staying away during ...

Gold jewellery goes in for fresh makeover
FUSION OF METALS. Branded gold jewellers, to attract more customers, are now attempting a fusion of the yellow metal with steel, tungsten ...

Mr Harish Bhat, COO- Watc... Mcleod Russel India – Buy
CHART FOCUS. Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the stock of Mcleod Russel India (Rs 249.8). The company cultivates, manufactures and ...

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ONGC re-enters KG ultra-deepwater block
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has re-entered its successful East Coast Block after a gap of almost ...

Wipro to get aggressive in Chinese market
Will focus on application development, engg, testing services initially. India's third largest IT exporter, Wipro Technologies, plans to aggressively go after business in such countries as China, Korea and South Africa as emerging markets warm ...

Banks, deposits and inflation
The rate of growth of deposits of scheduled commercial banks has been on the decline for the past couple of years and concerns have been expressed on the declining trend ...

Why is the RBI blowing kisses at inflation?
A few years ago, in my normal ill-mannered and insensitive way, I told a former RBI Governor who had been going on a bit about how wonderful monetary policy is, that it impacted only about 40 per cent of the Indian economy, the rest ...

Indices may turn fickle as they near the ceiling
Bulls likely to find themselves in a tight corner if FIIs withdraw. Dalal Street is likely to enter a volatile zone this week. Local key indices have stretched their upward bands almost to the limit the current fundamentals ...

Eredene sees a rosy future
Fund focuses on medium sized infrastructure investments. From corporate lawyer, to running a buyout firm focusing on metal and mining assets in Alaska and Greenland, to investing in ports and container terminals in India, the career path of Mr ...

Outlook remains weak for NTPC
F&O Query Corner. I am short 100 (5 lots) Mini Nifty futures (Aug) at 5440. Please suggest a course of action. - Suresh ...

Gold price rebounds, but downside risks persist
Crude oil breaches $80; economic pessimism recedes. The big news of the week from the commodity markets is the sharp spike in wheat prices, following drought conditions in the Black Sea region, exacerbated by the temporary embargo on grain ...

Gold may test resistance levels
Comex gold futures ended higher on Friday as the dollar dropped against major currencies. Gold hit a three-week high on Friday, gaining 1 per cent after a dismal US non-farm payrolls report increased the metal's safe-haven investment appeal ...

Corruption as a national scourge and shame
“Little evidence of corruption going down, says Plan panel” is the headline of a news report appearing in Business Line, August 2). The Planning Commission has discovered that corruption “has permeated the entire ...

Corruption games
In Srimad-Bhagavatam, the greatest of all the Puranas, the learned writer Vyasadeva begins and ends the piece of Vedic literature with the verse: Satyam Param Dhimahi. In essence this means “seek the truth, the whole truth and there ...

Heavy showers over J&K to last 2 more days
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast isolated heavy rainfall for Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the next two days even as they struggle to come to grips with the killer cloud burst that ...