The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 21, 2002

Long-term investment — Negative trend in the proportions
In a developing country, long-term net capital formation or net long-term investment is the most important factor in projecting growth rate trends. Also, when long-term projects are completed, there is plenty of new scope for short-term, directly pro fit-yielding projects. But the powers-that-be and the planners have, it seems, ceased to worry about the long term, says P. R. Brahmananda. More

VIEW POINT

Oh, Kolkata!
THE Deputy Prime Minister, Mr L. K. Advani, has been prescient enough to pass judgment on the city of Kolkata. Treading in the footsteps of his illustrious political colleague, the late Rajiv Gandhi, who once described the city as a "dying" one, ... More

E-DIMENSION

Where the head is held high
CEO salaries have been drawing undue attention, especially those of the failed companies. While on one side there are the bleeding corporates, on the other, there are the fatly paid helmsmen. And as investors stand on the kerb clutching shares ... More

SAY CHEEK

Right man for the wrong job
PRESIDENT Bush is always quick with solutions, whether they work or not. Be it the `war on terror' campaign or the `pull the cork off Iraq' one, there is usually more rhetoric than result. On a different plane, in the world of accounting and ... More

ON MINT STREET

Will RBI's rescue strategy work?
THE RBI seems to have made up its mind on a rescue strategy for the stuttering cluster of old and new private sector banks. In five years time, the old private sector banks such as Lord Krishna, Nedungadi, South Indian, Catholic Syrian and the ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

FII selling impacts Dr Reddy's Lab
PHARMA stocks continued to remain on the sellers' list. Among them was Dr Reddy's Laboratories. There were talks in the market that a leading FII was a seller in the counter. Dealers said that the stock had been continuously falling over the last ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Long Oct puts on BPCL may be rewarding
THE following are some buy/sell strategies based on Friday's trading in the derivatives segment at the NSE: Equity options BPCL: Leading indicators point to this stock moving up, but the upside may well be transitory. The price ... More

SENSOR

Infotech stocks recoup early losses
THE benchmark BSE Sensex slipped for the third consecutive day on Friday and ended the week in the negative territory. This followed the global rating agency Standard & Poor's cutting the country's local currency debt ratings to `junk'. The ... More

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