The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, April 13, 2008

FCI may top wheat procurement target
Khanna (Punjab), April 12 The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is likely to meet its target of procuring 150 lakh tonnes of wheat for buffer stocks and perhaps exceed it despite talks of the crop being affected by last week’s rain and ... More

Coming soon: ‘Invest India’
New Delhi, April 12 A new company ‘Invest India’ would be set up to promote inward investments and provide ‘hand holding’ services to foreign investors scouting for investment opportunities in India, the Union Commerce ... More

DAP fertiliser subsidy bill may go up Rs 25,000 cr
Phosphoric acid import price higher by 250% More

Crackdown on ‘dabba trading’ in commodities
FMC GETS TOUGH More

Rising income levels driving insurance penetration: IRDA
First-year premium in 2006-07 registers 94.96% growth More

Bad quarter for mutual funds: Diversified funds may hold key
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Harvesting alphas: Why closed-end funds are a better route
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Index Outlook
Indian markets slipped in to a somnolent state last week. The monotonous onslaught of negative news has probably left it too bored to react any more or perhaps this is the saturation point. However, periods of lull in stock markets need to be ... More

Weekly round-up
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The inflation effect on you and me
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HOW TO GUIDE
How to choose health cover
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Gujarat State Petronet: Buy
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Aegis Logistics: Buy
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Infrastructure funds — choose from a growing basket
Investors who held infrastructure funds over the past one year would have earned an average return of about 36 per cent, beating the average returns of diversified equity funds. While a good number of these funds were launched in the ... More

IDFC: Buy
The sharp de-rating of Indian financials over the past quarter has seen the IDFC stock lose over 33 per cent in value to its current Rs 154 levels. With a business portfolio that spans infrastructure funding, private equity, investment banking ... More

HR shortage — let’s wake up to the threat
Chennai, April 12 Addressing the BL Club meeting, Mr T.V. Mohandas Pai, Director-HR, Infosys, gave details of HR shortage across layers. In infrastructure, India builds 1 billion sq ft of space, and at the rate of about 2,000 people for every ... More

Godrej Consumer Products — Rights Offer: Invest
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Fidelity Equity Fund: Hold
Unitholders can retain hold Fidelity Equity Fund. The fund’s performance since inception has placed it in the top quartile within diversified funds, though it has under-performed its benchmark BSE-200 over the past year. The fund has ... More

Aishwarya Telecom — IPO: Avoid
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Housing, at what cost?
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Super luxury apartments gaining ground
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Is your ‘sweet home’ also a ‘safe-home’?
Do you remember a single day without the newspapers reporting some burglary or chain-snatching incident in your city? Not to forget, the numerous gas cylinder explosion cases and freak fire accidents due to short circuits or bad wiring! Every ... More

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