The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 19, 2005

Waste of time and money
THE three-day UN "summit" attended by heads of states and governments was described as the largest such gathering ever, but going by the forgettable outcome, it was a big yawn. Indeed, never in the history of human ... More

WIDE CANVAS

Tracking the global FDI movement
Going by recent economic trends, an FDI upturn is in the works following the recent investment recession. Generally, the UNCTAD report says, that prospects for almost all regions "are expected to be bright in both the short and the medium term". Even so, for 2004-2005, performance is expected to be the best for Central Europe and Asia, less bright for Western Europe, Africa and Latin America. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Pivotals may maintain uptrend
In case of non-benchmark stocks, the market seems to be gradually developing its resistance in terms of further growth in valuation More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Is there a case for regulating MF distributors?
HERE is a query that has lately brought forth furtive glances, shrugs, defensive body language - perhaps all of these in one or two cases. This may be an innocuous poser, but one that a lot of people are trying to sidestep for one reason or ... More

PLANTATION PANORAMA

Tea industry looks for immediate solutions
TEA planters and traders are looking forward to at least two important announcements from the Centre when the policy makers meet them in Coonoor on Monday and Tuesday. Both Mr Kamal Nath (Commerce Minister) and Mr EVKS Elangovan (Minister of ... More

ADR WATCH

Mixed trend prevails
WITH Hurricane Katrina set to slowdown the US economy and to have higher economic implications, the US markets declined last week. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3 per cent, the DJ Industrial Average lost 0.3 per cent and the Nasdaq declined 0.7 per ... More

VISION 2020

The economic fault lines
Unlike geographical fault lines, the economic ones spread disaster everywhere — on the prudent and the successful as much as on the imprudent and unsuccessful. P. V. Indiresan offers a solution to give the poor what they value and is goo d for them too. It cannot be stolen from them, and yet profit politicians even when they do not deny the poor. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Clear the air before starting with `love all'
THE air is so thick with news about fatwa that it would be an error not to know what it is. The word has been with us from 1625, notes Online Etymology Dictionary, and it is "from Arabic fetwa `a decision given by a mufti,' related ... More

CHAT

Easy to recommend, risky to follow
Khan busied himself with a tarazu, putting fundamentals on one side, and technicals on the other. Jogin was too tied up with restringing his tennis racquet. Dakshinamoorthy lay in a hammock reading Bull God, a novel by Roberta Gellis. Sridevi ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

Raising the curtain on Disney's top managers
THE court has proclaimed its judgment. Michael Eisner, Chief Executive Officer of Walt Disney Co., did not intend to harm the company. He was just a bad manager. The final decision has been long in coming. The case, ... More

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