The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Gender budget
AN innovation introduced by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, in the budget last year — and continued this year — has received only cursory attention without exciting much interest. For the first time in this country, he has ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN

RBI decouples from the Fed
THE first of the proposed quarterly reviews of the Annual Monetary Policy took place on Tuesday. Large sections of the market anticipated that the RBI would hike the reverse repo rate by 25 bps in the monetary policy. That has not happened, ... More

DOWN TO EARTH

Where are Pakistan's commodities headed?
WHEN Pakistani forces occupied certain points in Kargil, India's military intelligence system failed to detect and warn the army of the manoeuvres until the Pakistani forces were long entrenched into strategically ... More

SAY CHEEK

Death blatantly defies the power of reason
LIFE levels all men, death reveals the eminent, said George Bernard Shaw. "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it," advises Somerset Maugham. J.K. Rowling tells you that about the ... More

ON MINT STREET

Yuan-rupee in focus as China is top imports source
CAPITAL flows into India have remained steady in the first quarter of 2005-06 going by the macroeconomic and monetary developments put out by the Reserve Bank of India. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has more than doubled in April-May 2005 at ... More

ZERO BASE

Carrot of financial autonomy with the stick of performance
NOW that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has decided to increase the financial autonomy of profit-making Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), most of us have suddenly come to know what powers the Chairman-cum-Managing ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

The monsoon effect
WITH reports of good monsoon this year, fast moving consumer goods companies' stocks have started attracting market players. Dealers said the interest in the sector is due to good valuation compared to companies in other sectors. The ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Outlook may turn positive for Matrix
THE following strategies are based on Tuesday's trading in the derivatives segment on the NSE: Matrix Labs: Buy August futures if it trades above 201. The upside target is 220-222. Initiate the position with protective stop at 195. The ... More

SENSOR

Large-caps drive rally
THE bulls continued their march on the bourses as the markets ended the day scaling yet another new high. While the benchmark Sensex was up 47 points, the Nifty ended with a gain of 11.4 points. The markets opened on a flat note and witnessed ... More

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