The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Puzzling ways
IN the 1960s, in the city then known as Calcutta, whose citizens well known for erudition and scholarship, the story used to be told of a chief secretary who sitting in the India Coffee House used to do the Times ... More

MICROSCOPE

Tata Engg: Accelerating on the fast lane
A COMBINATION of tight cost control, rising sales volumes and good product price realisations can do wonders to a company's earnings performance. This is amply proved in Tata Engineering's performance in the first quarter ended June 30. It was ... More

Siemens: Transportation, the main driver
SIEMENS' performance for the quarter ended June 2003 is characterised by a flat topline growth and absence of margin expansion at the operating level. Lower provisioning for tax boosted profits at the net level by 28 per cent. Segment-wise too ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Nalco strong on order talk
DISINVESTMENT or no disinvestment, the market seems to have a positive outlook on the National Aluminium Company (Nalco). According to dealers, despite the uncertainty regarding the company's disinvestment, institutional investors were seen ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Satyam: Outlook positive, buy July 175 calls
THE following strategies are based on Monday's trading in the derivatives trading on the NSE: Equity option: The outlook on Satyam Computer is positive. The put-call open interest ratio has declined. Further, futures and calls still ... More

SENSOR

Select stocks shine on a wilting day
THE markets opened for the week on a distinctly bearish note. There was selling pressure in the markets as the BSE Sensex plummeted by 78 points (or 2.14 per cent) to close at 3569.58 points. Similarly, the S& P CNX Nifty also ended in the ... More

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