The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, February 08, 2009

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YOUNG INVESTOR: Trade by the rules
Every stock market trade is an interesting game where each player has his own set of rules. Every new player, before entering the ring, has to decide his strategy and game plan for that trade. Before going in for any stock market activity, ...

EYE ON THE MARKET: Sectors that make the cut
As the curtains come down on December earnings, it is not a rosy picture for India Inc. Even as sales growth for the leading companies appears to be faltering, higher raw material prices and a spike in interest costs put immense pressure on ...

BOOK VALUE: Safe havens
In times of uncertainty and inflation, gold is the place to be, writes Paul Muolo in $700 Billion Bailout (
TAX TALK: Rebate possible on dividends from chits
I am a salaried person. A friend, who is a chit fund agent, advised me to join chits as the dividend received from chits is exempted from income-tax if I do not claim any deduction on account of loss suffered on auction. Is this ...

SIMPLE ECONOMICS: Moral hazard and traffic discipline
Something profound (or so I thought) struck me the other day when I was travelling by auto. The driver was careful in manoeuvring the traffic. As he owned the vehicle, this led me to think that, perhaps, the traffic indiscipline was ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Purchasing Managers Index
The Purchasing Managers Index or PMI, as it is more commonly called, is a composite measure of a range of industrial indicators in an economy. Released by Markit Economics and ABN Amro, the PMI is closely watched by economists to discern ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Looking after senior citizens
Senior citizens in our country are not particularly well looked after, both by the Government and their own kith and kin. There are, of course, ...

MICROMOTIVES: Time spreads: Trade set-up for volatility bets
An options trader who recently set up put time spread lost despite the S&P CNX Nifty declining in value. We found that many options traders appear to be grappling with the following question regarding time spreads: Why are long spreads ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Measuring interest costs
Interest rates and payouts by companies have, of late, hogged a fair bit of the limelight. This part of expenditure spins quite the tale of the financial health of a company since the payouts have a direct impact on profitability and the ...

F & O OUTLOOK: Selling pressure may emerge at higher levels
It was just another dull week for traders as Nifty future chose to remain in a narrow band. It ended the week at 2835.6 points, registering a drop of a per cent over that of the previous week. The discount between Nifty future and spot ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh

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Nifty (as on Feb 6)	2,843.10(+63.05)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)	48.68/69
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs	2,230
Gold (a gram) Rs	1,316
Silver (a kg) Rs	22,210

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