Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, August 11, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, August 11, 2003 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND Award and caveat WIDE CANVAS Holding society to ransom There is a subtle difference between government employees going on a strike and a strike being called by employees of a public limited company or a private organisation, whose salaries, strictly speaking, are not paid by the state — that is, fr om revenue proceeds collected from individual and corporate citizens of the land. More ON THE MOVE SC order to shipowners' rescue The Maritime Union of India was all geared up for a showdown to secure its demand for a wage hike. But the Supreme Court Order on August 6, banning strikes by trade unions and government employees, came like an unexpected storm to seafarers. More A RINGSIDE VIEW Market heat may come down — Arora picks likely to witness selling pressure A senior analyst, on condition anonymity, said that the cheerleading in the market would cool off somewhat. "Certainly, the exuberance would decline. The market would like to take a pause and ponder over the thin line differentiating between a judgem ent call and a decision that may be viewed as price distortion". More MUTUAL CONFIDENCE Alliance sans Arora... What's up next? You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one / I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one THE world of mutual funds will not be the same again after Saturday's order by SEBI against Samir Arora. Like the man in ... More GLOBAL MONITOR Gold moving up firmly GOLD treaded a firm upward path last week following evidence of buying interest. Beginning the week softly, the yellow metal continued the softer tone from previous Friday, with prices being held below $350 an ounce and driven intra-day by ... More ADR WATCH VSNL in limelight — NYSE likely to suspend Silverline WITH the Cisco Systems Inc, the world's largest maker of equipment to direct Internet traffic, registering lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit, the tech-laden Nasdaq suffered heavy during last week. However, the broader-indices, the S&P-500 ... More VISION 2020 
India needs A Town Like AliceRural transformation needs a trigger in the form of investment by organised business to create high paid employment. Influx of families with large disposable incomes induces a major shift in consumer demand that, given favourable conditions, induces rapid development of the village. P. V. Indiresan on how private industry can transform villages, and at the same time, become richer the way Neville Shute's heroine Jean becomes in A Town Like Alice? More ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED Tourists with the phantom itch ADVENTURE tourism, as a search query on the Net, yields almost half a million finds. People are bored of carrying a bunch of picture postcards and visiting those sites and buildings, places and monuments, and then busily clicking away from all ... More RANDOM WALK Corporate duplicity AS the cola multinationals in India continue to get bad press for their laxity in maintaining quality and food safety standards in the country, the debate is shifting to corporate irresponsibility and the double standards of transnational ... More MARK TO MARKET Why bonds with embedded put options make sense AMERICAN PERISCOPE 
Competition and ethical behaviourIT IS said that when competition gets tough, market pressures can drive you to be unethical. On the other side of the same argument, in a tough market, competitors are carefully watching each other to report unethical behaviour to bring the ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Top Stories In Focus The Cable tangle Pakistan Diary Indo-Pak Monitor Indo-China Relations Telecom Competition In Depth In Kashmir Simple Economics Slowburn Tax Talk NRIs & Investment Avenues Corporate Governance Looking back Aug. 3-Aug. 9 Murders most foul |
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