The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 10, 2011

India Inc faces headwinds from higher input costs, interest rates
Preview of performance in the quarter ended December 2010. Profit growth for India Inc may be harder to come by in the third quarter of 2010-11 as companies head into the results season, even as they manage strong growth ...

Russia keen to partner India in tapping thorium cycle
Offers to jointly develop new-age fast neutron reactor. Russia has offered to partner India in its three-stage nuclear power programme that aims at eventually harnessing the thorium fuel cycle for the generation of ...

Mr Ulrik Dahl (right), Ma... Television Eighteen – Sell
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider selling the stock of Television Eighteen India (Rs 67.3). The stock has been on a long-term downtrend from its June 2009 peak of Rs 156. After encountering a key resistance around Rs 98 in ...

Day Trading Guide

IPL auction: Boredom and surprise mark second day; no bids for over 100 players
The two-day IPL auction ended today with the little known Australian all-rounder Daniel Christian going for the highest price of $900,000 with Deccan Chargers bagging him by paying 18 times his ...

Auto sales continue to remain on fast-track
Rising raw material prices cause for concern. Automobile manufacturers have ended the third quarter of this year with substantial increase in vehicle sales over the same period last year. However, rising input costis a cause for concern. ...

Global managers unfazed by lower BRIC returns
See underperformance as a blip. “We believe BRIC equity markets are in a secular bull phase, and we expect this trend to continue into 2011. There may be corrections along the way, but they may provide investors with appealing entry points ...

Outlook stays hazy as greed, fear grip market
Doubts surface about the sustainability of improvement. Dalal Street could be on a sticky wicket this week. The short-term global and domestic scenarios appear to be dicey. Swings could be wild. Clues could ...

Better to bet against beta
In the 2006 instalment of James Bond movie Franchise, the antagonist goes short on an airline company while plotting to thwart the release of a new plane by the said company. His terrorist-funded plan goes haywire when Bond sinks the plot ...

Nifty rules in indecisive zone
I have 3 lots of Nifty 6000 call options at an average rate of Rs 87 and 2 lots of UCO Bank 100 Put at Re 1. Please advice. — ...

Selling may continue in gold on euro's weakness
Last week, gold dropped 3.7 per cent to $1,368.90 an ounce, while silver fell 7.3 per cent to $28.67 an ounce. It was one of the sharpest fall in the last few months and it is dollar's strength that has stopped the bulls in the precious metals ...

Comex gold to test support levels
Comex gold futures ended lower on Friday despite disappointing US job growth failing to stoke safe-haven demand. Prices bounced after Friday's jobs data dimmed some of this week's optimism fuelled by a series of better-than-expected US ...

Government's strange spin on inflation
One would have thought that policymakers would begin the year with a resolve to think afresh on the dangers underlying the much-touted economic growth of 8 per cent-plus this fiscal. But the reactions of policymakers point to a continued focus ...

Ban entry of over 25-year-old ships in Indian ports: Panel
Capt. P.V.K. Mohan Committee, constituted by the Shipping Ministry a month ago to examine the inquiry report on the collision between two ships, MSC Chitra and Khalijia III, near Mumbai port on August 7 last year, in its report, ...

Screening for diabetes, cancer soon
HEALTHY INITIATIVE. An estimated Rs 1,600-crore initiative to screen people for diabetes, hypertension, heart-related problems, stroke and cancer, besides age-related ailments for senior citizens, is expected to get implemented ...

What makes an ERP consultant successful
SAP expert on the ground rules. The bus heading to REC Trichy is packed with alumni and ready to leave from the hotel portico. But before joining his batch-mates (1981-85) for a literal walk down memory lane, S. Rangarajan, a Bangalore-based SAP ...

Brief westerly comfort for frigid north India
The arrival of a western disturbance early this week and its limited warming impact is about the only piece of good news for people battling near-frigid conditions in north and ...