COLUMNS
ACCOUNT SPEAK
Chocolate teacakes or `unjust enrichment'
"Molly, my sister and I fell out, and what do you think it was all about?" Thus begins a nursery rhyme with a question. The answer is simple: "She loved coffee and I loved tea, and that was the reason we ...
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IMPRESSIONS
The man who made Hitler wait
The curtain came down last week on the football World Cup 2006 after a month-long soccer feast that enthralled millions across the globe. This was Germany's biggest sporting extravaganza after the 1972 Olympics ...
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BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
Smoke 'n mirrors
At least 65 out of the 190 or so jurisdictions in the United Nations `offer secret banking that, in some cases, is absolutely airtight'. And the number of banks operating in the offshore world is estimated to be 4,000 — `with no physical ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
HCL Tech sees sustained buying
HCL Tech saw large volumes of shares traded on Wednesday. Sustained institutional support pushed volumes up, said dealers. Rumours of an acquisition had also been driving interest in this stock in the recent past. There is talk in the market ...
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Garware Offshore: Betting on exploration
One of the counters that has fallen the least in the broad market fall is that of Garware Offshore Services Ltd. While talk of a placement had been driving interest at this counter in the past, the rising oil prices which will lead to increasing ...
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SENSOR
Markets disregard earnings, slip sharply
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