Growth: Can India catch up with China?
Can China and India sustain their current growth rates?
A traditional answer to this question is conditional: yes, provided they continue to implement policy reforms. But historical experience allows a less guarded answer.
There are few examples of countries that have grown as strongly and for such long periods as India and China have - 6 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively, for nearly three decades - and then suffered a sharp slowdown or collapse.
If history is a reliable guide, then barring major upheavals, economic growth looks likely to continue in both countries until some threshold level of prosperity is attained.
But why does growth beget more growth? One mechanism is simply that growth signals the fact of profitable economic opportunities, which encourages investors to rush in, first in response to these opportunities but then in response to each other - this is growth as a confidence trick - creating a virtuous circle.
If countries are relatively poor, if their markets are large, and if their policy framework is basically sensible - all of which are true of China and India - the chances of the growth-begetting-growth dynamic taking hold are high.
But in addition to the signalling effect, growth may itself cause changes which have in turn a growth-reinforcing effect - a kind of positive feedback loop. A good example is education.
For long, development economists bemoaned the poor levels of educational attainment in India, directing their critique at the government's failure to supply better education. But economic growth changed the education picture dramatically.
It increased the returns to, and hence the demand for, education. And if government supply remained weak, consumers simply turned to the private sector to meet their demand for education.
Improvements in educational attainment over the last 15 years are attributable in part to more rapid growth..
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23 August 2008
US Stks- Lehman jump, oil plunge drives Wall St rally
US STOCKS-Lehman's jump, oil's plunge drives Wall St rally
US STOCKS-Market ends higher on Lehman's rally, lower oil
* Hopes for an investment in Lehman boost financials
* Buffett says stocks more attractive now than a year ago
* Bernanke encouraged by drop in commodity prices
* Dow up 1.7 pct, S&P 500 up 1.1 pct, Nasdaq up 1.4 pct (Updates to close)
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rallied on Friday to score their best daily gain in two weeks as hopes that Lehman Brothers (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) may attract a major investor lifted financial stocks while a plunge in oil prices soothed worries about inflation and consumer spending.
The rally helped the broader market erase most of the losses suffered in recent days, leaving the Dow and the S&P 500 only a touch below where they were when the week began.
Shares of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) ended up 5 percent after the Korea Development Bank [KDB.UL] said the U.S. brokerage was a possible acquisition target.For details, see [ID:nSEO332057]. At one point, Lehman's stock was up more than 15 percent.
Lehman is among the U.S. banks whose business has been battered by mounting losses sparked by the U.S. housing slump. Lehman's stock has lost nearly 80 percent of its value this year and the investment bank has taken $7 billion in write-downs. Earlier this week, several brokerages forecast more write-downs to come. Continued...
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Oil falls 5.4 percent in biggest drop since 2004
Crude oil prices fell more than 5.4 percent on Friday in the biggest one-day slide since 2004 as dealers turned their focus to rising supply levels and weakening global demand.
A rebound in the U.S. dollar encouraged the sell-off, applying downward pressure across the commodities markets by weakening the purchasing power of buyers using other currencies, dealers said.
The slide adds to a more than 20 percent fall in the price of crude since mid-July and could increase the chance oil cartel OPEC will cut official production limits when the group meets in Vienna on September 9.
U.S. crude fell $6.59, or 5.4 percent, to settle at $114.59 a barrel -- the biggest fall in percentage terms since December 27, 2004. London Brent crude fell $6.24 to $113.92 a barrel.
"People who were buying yesterday are taking profits today," said Peter Beutel, analyst at consultancy Cameron Hanover. "There is also renewed technical selling and talk again of demand destruction. The dollar is strong again too."
The declines Friday were encouraged by two reports -- one showing an uptick in OPEC crude oil output and another showing an expected decline in U.S. travel over the September 1 Labor Day holiday weekend as high fuel prices hit consumers.
Industry consultant Petrologistics said on Friday OPEC oil output was expected to rise in August by 450,000 barrels per day, to 32.95 million bpd, a factor that could further beef up inventory levels in consumer nations.
Meanwhile, the U.S. auto and travel group AAA said that Labor Day holiday travel was expected to fall this year by the largest amount in at least eight years as consumers struggle with higher gasoline prices and airfares. Continued...
Source: Reuters.com.
US STOCKS-Market ends higher on Lehman's rally, lower oil
Index Value: 11,628.06
Trade Time: 4:08PM ET
Change: 197.85 (1.73%)
Prev Close: 11,430.21
Open: 11,426.79
Trade Time: 4:08PM ET
Change: 197.85 (1.73%)
Prev Close: 11,430.21
Open: 11,426.79
* Hopes for an investment in Lehman boost financials
* Buffett says stocks more attractive now than a year ago
* Bernanke encouraged by drop in commodity prices
* Dow up 1.7 pct, S&P 500 up 1.1 pct, Nasdaq up 1.4 pct (Updates to close)
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rallied on Friday to score their best daily gain in two weeks as hopes that Lehman Brothers (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) may attract a major investor lifted financial stocks while a plunge in oil prices soothed worries about inflation and consumer spending.
The rally helped the broader market erase most of the losses suffered in recent days, leaving the Dow and the S&P 500 only a touch below where they were when the week began.
Shares of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) ended up 5 percent after the Korea Development Bank [KDB.UL] said the U.S. brokerage was a possible acquisition target.For details, see [ID:nSEO332057]. At one point, Lehman's stock was up more than 15 percent.
Lehman is among the U.S. banks whose business has been battered by mounting losses sparked by the U.S. housing slump. Lehman's stock has lost nearly 80 percent of its value this year and the investment bank has taken $7 billion in write-downs. Earlier this week, several brokerages forecast more write-downs to come. Continued...
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Oil falls 5.4 percent in biggest drop since 2004
Crude oil prices fell more than 5.4 percent on Friday in the biggest one-day slide since 2004 as dealers turned their focus to rising supply levels and weakening global demand.
A rebound in the U.S. dollar encouraged the sell-off, applying downward pressure across the commodities markets by weakening the purchasing power of buyers using other currencies, dealers said.
The slide adds to a more than 20 percent fall in the price of crude since mid-July and could increase the chance oil cartel OPEC will cut official production limits when the group meets in Vienna on September 9.
U.S. crude fell $6.59, or 5.4 percent, to settle at $114.59 a barrel -- the biggest fall in percentage terms since December 27, 2004. London Brent crude fell $6.24 to $113.92 a barrel.
"People who were buying yesterday are taking profits today," said Peter Beutel, analyst at consultancy Cameron Hanover. "There is also renewed technical selling and talk again of demand destruction. The dollar is strong again too."
The declines Friday were encouraged by two reports -- one showing an uptick in OPEC crude oil output and another showing an expected decline in U.S. travel over the September 1 Labor Day holiday weekend as high fuel prices hit consumers.
Industry consultant Petrologistics said on Friday OPEC oil output was expected to rise in August by 450,000 barrels per day, to 32.95 million bpd, a factor that could further beef up inventory levels in consumer nations.
Meanwhile, the U.S. auto and travel group AAA said that Labor Day holiday travel was expected to fall this year by the largest amount in at least eight years as consumers struggle with higher gasoline prices and airfares. Continued...
Source: Reuters.com.
22 August 2008
The world's richest college dropouts
The world's richest college dropouts -I
Billionaire college dropouts!
August 20, 2008
There are many college and school dropouts who have amassed a huge amount wealth. But good education is never a waste of time, because there are millions of dropouts, but only a few of them go on to become billionaires.
The billionaire college dropouts list shows that a combination of qualities like vision, determination, hard work, business acumen, ability to spot an opportunity and turn it into a winning venture, leadership and motivational skills, etc is more important than a college degree.
Here are some college dropouts who went on to become billionaires. . .
Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (1932-2002) was born into a modest family of a schoolteacher. When he was 16, he dropped out of school and went to Aden to work as a gas-station attendant and then later as a clerk in an oil company.
He returned to India 10 years later and started a business with a meagre capital. By the time of his demise, his company -- Reliance Industries Ltd -- had grown into a mammoth business empire! He was one of India's greatest ever entrepreneurs.
Dhirubhai is credited with having single-handedly breathed life into the Indian stock markets and bringing in thousands of investors to the bourses. In the process he became one of the world's richest men.
His modern way of thinking brought into play his second achievement: the idea that Indian manufacturing could and should be world class.
His sons, Mukesh and Anil are among the top 10 richest persons in the world, each of them worth over $40 billion..
For more :
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/aug/20sl1.htm - I
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/aug/21sl1.htm - II
Source: Rediff.com
Billionaire college dropouts!
August 20, 2008
There are many college and school dropouts who have amassed a huge amount wealth. But good education is never a waste of time, because there are millions of dropouts, but only a few of them go on to become billionaires.
The billionaire college dropouts list shows that a combination of qualities like vision, determination, hard work, business acumen, ability to spot an opportunity and turn it into a winning venture, leadership and motivational skills, etc is more important than a college degree.
Here are some college dropouts who went on to become billionaires. . .
Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (1932-2002) was born into a modest family of a schoolteacher. When he was 16, he dropped out of school and went to Aden to work as a gas-station attendant and then later as a clerk in an oil company.
He returned to India 10 years later and started a business with a meagre capital. By the time of his demise, his company -- Reliance Industries Ltd -- had grown into a mammoth business empire! He was one of India's greatest ever entrepreneurs.
Dhirubhai is credited with having single-handedly breathed life into the Indian stock markets and bringing in thousands of investors to the bourses. In the process he became one of the world's richest men.
His modern way of thinking brought into play his second achievement: the idea that Indian manufacturing could and should be world class.
His sons, Mukesh and Anil are among the top 10 richest persons in the world, each of them worth over $40 billion..
For more :
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/aug/20sl1.htm - I
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/aug/21sl1.htm - II
Source: Rediff.com
Sensex gains 158 pts as blue chips bounce back:Sify, India
Sensex gains 158 pts as blue chips bounce back
The market shrugged off a rise in inflation, crude oil prices, weak Asian bourses and a highly negative start and closed with sharp gains today.
There were several volatile spells during the day but in the end, it was a buoyant close for the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty thanks to sustained buying in metal, bank, FMCG, oil and auto stocks in afternoon trade.
Power, pharma and information technology stocks also broke free from their lower levels and rallied higher. Capital goods, PSU and realty stocks ended well off their intra-day lows thanks to renewed buying support.
While the Sensex, which rose to a high of 14,428.52 today, ended at 14,401.49 with a gain of 157.76 points or 1.11%, the Nifty closed at 4327.45, slightly off its intra-day high of 4337, with a gain of 43.60 points or 1.02%.
Earlier, in morning trade, the Sensex and Nifty had tumbled to 14,136.86 and 4248 respectively following a weak start.
Even as several large cap stocks marched on to higher levels this afternoon, the mood remained highly subdued with regard to stocks from midcap and smallcap segments. As a result, the market breadth was weak when trade ended today.
Out of a total of 2725 stocks traded on BSE, 1212 stocks closed with gains. 1411 stocks posted losses and 102 stocks ended flat.
Sterlite Industries and Hindalco ended stronger by over 4.25%. Hindustan Unilever moved up by 3.75%. HDFC gained 3.25%. BHEL, Tata Power, Reliance Infrastructure, HDFC Bank and Maruti Suzuki surged 2% - 3%.
Reliance Communications, Infosys Technologies, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Tata Motors, ACC, Mahindra & Mahindra and Reliance Industries advanced by 1.5% - 2%.
Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, ONGC, Jaiprakash Associates and DLF posted modest gains. State Bank of India and ICICI Bank gained marginally. Tata Consultancy Services closed flat.
SAIL, Reliance Petroleum, Nalco, Cairn India, Tata Communications and Zee Entertainment ended with sharp gains. BPCL, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Power Grid Corporation finished with sharp losses.
Satyam Computer Services ended 3.15% down. Grasim Industries and NTPC also closed with sharp losses. Wipro eased by 0.9%. Larsen & Toubro and ITC declined by 0.85% and 0.3% respectively.
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The market shrugged off a rise in inflation, crude oil prices, weak Asian bourses and a highly negative start and closed with sharp gains today.
There were several volatile spells during the day but in the end, it was a buoyant close for the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty thanks to sustained buying in metal, bank, FMCG, oil and auto stocks in afternoon trade.
Power, pharma and information technology stocks also broke free from their lower levels and rallied higher. Capital goods, PSU and realty stocks ended well off their intra-day lows thanks to renewed buying support.
While the Sensex, which rose to a high of 14,428.52 today, ended at 14,401.49 with a gain of 157.76 points or 1.11%, the Nifty closed at 4327.45, slightly off its intra-day high of 4337, with a gain of 43.60 points or 1.02%.
Earlier, in morning trade, the Sensex and Nifty had tumbled to 14,136.86 and 4248 respectively following a weak start.
Even as several large cap stocks marched on to higher levels this afternoon, the mood remained highly subdued with regard to stocks from midcap and smallcap segments. As a result, the market breadth was weak when trade ended today.
Out of a total of 2725 stocks traded on BSE, 1212 stocks closed with gains. 1411 stocks posted losses and 102 stocks ended flat.
Sterlite Industries and Hindalco ended stronger by over 4.25%. Hindustan Unilever moved up by 3.75%. HDFC gained 3.25%. BHEL, Tata Power, Reliance Infrastructure, HDFC Bank and Maruti Suzuki surged 2% - 3%.
Reliance Communications, Infosys Technologies, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Tata Motors, ACC, Mahindra & Mahindra and Reliance Industries advanced by 1.5% - 2%.
Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, ONGC, Jaiprakash Associates and DLF posted modest gains. State Bank of India and ICICI Bank gained marginally. Tata Consultancy Services closed flat.
SAIL, Reliance Petroleum, Nalco, Cairn India, Tata Communications and Zee Entertainment ended with sharp gains. BPCL, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Power Grid Corporation finished with sharp losses.
Satyam Computer Services ended 3.15% down. Grasim Industries and NTPC also closed with sharp losses. Wipro eased by 0.9%. Larsen & Toubro and ITC declined by 0.85% and 0.3% respectively.
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Other articles:
Closing Bell
Anil Ambani ready to talk peace, meet big brother Mukesh
Short covering in stock futures
Equities bounce back; oil & gas, metals lead
Tata threatens to move Nano out of Singur
Coal India may soon become a 'Navratna'
'No gas deal between NTPC & RIL'
All GSM cos to connect with RCOM's network
Product Review: Apple iPhone
Anil ready to meet Mukesh any time
Ask mother to help settle gas dispute, court tells Ambanis
Source: BL,BS,ET,Sify.
21 August 2008
Top Headlines
Headlines
Rupee strengthens; gold remains flat at Rs 11,910
Woods, Nishita Shah among Forbes' next-gen billionaires list
Two young Indian CEOs make $15.7 mn between them
GSM cos to link with RCom's network
Govt nod to IPTV policy for roll out
$1.49 bn committed in NELP-VII
FDI cap in DTH may rise to 74%
Fertiliser cos to get Rs 53k cr
Nifty below 4,300, Sensex 400 pts down
RComm to launch IPTV by December
Govt clears IPTV policy
ONGC Videsh gets ok for Imperial Energy bid
China's ICBC becomes world's most profitable bank
RIL mulling JV with Petrobras
RPL refinery to begin production in Sept
NSE set to launch currency futures on August 29
Videocon to go ahead with LCD plant in Maharashtra
Exide to expand capacity; enter new overseas markets
Punj Lloyd reported a robust net profit growth
Nagarjuna Constructions gets orders of Rs 474 crores
RIL misused trustee position: RNRL
India may get exemption at the NSG: Experts
Infotech Ent enters O&G space
Lupin eyeing Australian generic co stake
RIL-RNRL case hearing delay may hit RIL
RNRL shifts stance, ready to trade gas for 3 yrs
Source:ET,MC,BS
Rupee strengthens; gold remains flat at Rs 11,910
Woods, Nishita Shah among Forbes' next-gen billionaires list
Two young Indian CEOs make $15.7 mn between them
GSM cos to link with RCom's network
Govt nod to IPTV policy for roll out
$1.49 bn committed in NELP-VII
FDI cap in DTH may rise to 74%
Fertiliser cos to get Rs 53k cr
Nifty below 4,300, Sensex 400 pts down
RComm to launch IPTV by December
Govt clears IPTV policy
ONGC Videsh gets ok for Imperial Energy bid
China's ICBC becomes world's most profitable bank
RIL mulling JV with Petrobras
RPL refinery to begin production in Sept
NSE set to launch currency futures on August 29
Videocon to go ahead with LCD plant in Maharashtra
Exide to expand capacity; enter new overseas markets
Punj Lloyd reported a robust net profit growth
Nagarjuna Constructions gets orders of Rs 474 crores
RIL misused trustee position: RNRL
India may get exemption at the NSG: Experts
Infotech Ent enters O&G space
Lupin eyeing Australian generic co stake
RIL-RNRL case hearing delay may hit RIL
RNRL shifts stance, ready to trade gas for 3 yrs
Source:ET,MC,BS
Sensex plummets 435 pts as bears strike; Inflation at 12.63
Sensex plummets 435 pts as bears strike
After a weak start this morning, the market kept losing ground as the session progressed as the bears, who had taken a breather yesterday, swung back into action once again.
Stockometer Top gainers Worst losers
With global markets turning weak and crude oil prices inching higher, investors were in no mood to build up positions this morning. Fears of interest rates hardening further on the back of high inflation and lower growth appeared to have weighed in significantly in afternoon trade.
While the Sensex, which tanked to a low of 14,201.18 in late afternoon trade, ended with a loss of 434.50 points or 2.96% at 14,243.73, the Nifty closed lower by 131.90 points or 2.99% at 4283.85, a few points off a low of 4271.30.
Interest rate sensitive bank and realty stocks took a severe hammering. Mirroring the sell-off in these sectors, the Bankex and Realty indices tumbled by 5.16% and 5.05% respectively.
PSU, power, capital goods, metal, media & communications and information technology stocks too declined sharply. Reflecting their fall, the respective sectoral indices drifted down by 2% - 3.75% today. The Oil & Gas barometer slipped by 1.94%. HC and Auto indices lost around 1.5% each while the Consumer Durables and FMCG indices eased by around a per cent.
Midcap and smallcap stocks also attracted heavy selling and mirroring their decline, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices lost 2.04% and 1.83% respectively.
The market breadth was very weak today. Out of 2713 stocks traded on BSE, 1914 stocks finished on a negative note. 734 stocks posted gains and 65 stocks ended flat. Ranbaxy Laboratories (up 1.55% to Rs 513.40) was the lone gainer from the Sensex pack. Among Nifty stocks, besides Ranbaxy Laboratories, Cairn India (1.8%) and ABB (0.15%) were the ones to end on a positive note.
State Bank of India closed with a big loss of 7.1%. HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, the other banking sector heavyweights in the Sensex, went down by 5.8% and 5.15% respectively.
NTPC, DLF, Reliance Infrastructure, Jaiprakash Associates and HDFC lost 4% - 6%. Reliance Communications, BHEL, Hindalco, Larsen & Toubro, Grasim Industries, ACC, Wipro, Hindustan Unilever, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel, ONGC and Infosys Technologies eased by 2% - 4%.
Bharti Airtel, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, Sterlite Industries, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Satyam Computer Services also closed on a weak note. Nalco, Unitech, BPCL, Tata Communications, Suzlon Energy, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Punjab National Bank, Ambuja Cements, HCL Technologies, SAIL, Reliance Petroleum and Idea Cellular ended sharply lower.
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Inflation rate rises to 12.63%
India's annual rate of inflation zoomed to a 16-year high of 12.63 percent for the week ended Aug 9, as compared to 12.44 percent the week before, but an unfazed finance ministry said prices had stabilised.
"Prices of essential commodities, which include food grain, pulses, edible oil, vegetable, dairy products and some other products including kerosene, soap and safety matches have more or less stabilised," the finance ministry said in a statement.
The official wholesale price index (WPI) released by the ministry of commerce and industry Thursday showed an increase of 0.3 percent in the index for food article, while that of textile group rose 1.6 percent.
Non-metallic index products rose 0.3 percent.
The increase in index for food articles was due to higher prices of masoor dal (3 percent), tea, moong and gram (2 percent each) and milk (1 percent).The index for manufactured products like mustard oil rose 0.2 percent while that of rubber and plastic products by 0.2 percent.
The index for non-food articles group like sunflower, raw rubber and cotton declined by 0.6 percent and the index for chemical and chemical products like benzene declined by 0.1 percent.
The ministry said the WPI for all commodities stood at 236.9 as compared to 236.1 (provisional) for the week ended June 14 and annual rate of inflation based on final index, calculated on point-to-point basis, stood at 11.8 percent as compared to 11.42 percent (provisional).
The finance ministry in a statement said inflation rate for 30 essential commodities stood at 6.74 percent for the week ending Aug 9, compared to 6.54 percent for the week before.
Double digit inflation to continue till December: D&B
Earlier Thursday, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the problem of inflation was short term and would moderate in due course, as the government has taken several monetary and administrative measures to rein in inflation.
"Inflation will moderate. Let's have patience," Ahluwalia said.
Ahluwalia also brushed aside apprehensions that the government's recent decision to hike employees' salaries would have any adverse impact on the country's economy.
Inflation or terms of trade adjustment?
"We will be able to deal with any implications (arising out of the salary hike)," he said.
The Prime minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC), in its "Economic Outlook Report 2008-09", has predicted a 7.7 percent economic growth in the current fiscal, as compared to 9.1 percent last fiscal.
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Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor C. Rangarajan, while releasing the EAC's economic outlook report here Aug 13, said inflation would moderate to 8-9 percent by March 2009.
After a weak start this morning, the market kept losing ground as the session progressed as the bears, who had taken a breather yesterday, swung back into action once again.
Stockometer Top gainers Worst losers
With global markets turning weak and crude oil prices inching higher, investors were in no mood to build up positions this morning. Fears of interest rates hardening further on the back of high inflation and lower growth appeared to have weighed in significantly in afternoon trade.
While the Sensex, which tanked to a low of 14,201.18 in late afternoon trade, ended with a loss of 434.50 points or 2.96% at 14,243.73, the Nifty closed lower by 131.90 points or 2.99% at 4283.85, a few points off a low of 4271.30.
Interest rate sensitive bank and realty stocks took a severe hammering. Mirroring the sell-off in these sectors, the Bankex and Realty indices tumbled by 5.16% and 5.05% respectively.
PSU, power, capital goods, metal, media & communications and information technology stocks too declined sharply. Reflecting their fall, the respective sectoral indices drifted down by 2% - 3.75% today. The Oil & Gas barometer slipped by 1.94%. HC and Auto indices lost around 1.5% each while the Consumer Durables and FMCG indices eased by around a per cent.
Midcap and smallcap stocks also attracted heavy selling and mirroring their decline, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices lost 2.04% and 1.83% respectively.
The market breadth was very weak today. Out of 2713 stocks traded on BSE, 1914 stocks finished on a negative note. 734 stocks posted gains and 65 stocks ended flat. Ranbaxy Laboratories (up 1.55% to Rs 513.40) was the lone gainer from the Sensex pack. Among Nifty stocks, besides Ranbaxy Laboratories, Cairn India (1.8%) and ABB (0.15%) were the ones to end on a positive note.
State Bank of India closed with a big loss of 7.1%. HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, the other banking sector heavyweights in the Sensex, went down by 5.8% and 5.15% respectively.
NTPC, DLF, Reliance Infrastructure, Jaiprakash Associates and HDFC lost 4% - 6%. Reliance Communications, BHEL, Hindalco, Larsen & Toubro, Grasim Industries, ACC, Wipro, Hindustan Unilever, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel, ONGC and Infosys Technologies eased by 2% - 4%.
Bharti Airtel, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries, Sterlite Industries, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Satyam Computer Services also closed on a weak note. Nalco, Unitech, BPCL, Tata Communications, Suzlon Energy, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Punjab National Bank, Ambuja Cements, HCL Technologies, SAIL, Reliance Petroleum and Idea Cellular ended sharply lower.
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Inflation rate rises to 12.63%
India's annual rate of inflation zoomed to a 16-year high of 12.63 percent for the week ended Aug 9, as compared to 12.44 percent the week before, but an unfazed finance ministry said prices had stabilised.
"Prices of essential commodities, which include food grain, pulses, edible oil, vegetable, dairy products and some other products including kerosene, soap and safety matches have more or less stabilised," the finance ministry said in a statement.
The official wholesale price index (WPI) released by the ministry of commerce and industry Thursday showed an increase of 0.3 percent in the index for food article, while that of textile group rose 1.6 percent.
Non-metallic index products rose 0.3 percent.
The increase in index for food articles was due to higher prices of masoor dal (3 percent), tea, moong and gram (2 percent each) and milk (1 percent).The index for manufactured products like mustard oil rose 0.2 percent while that of rubber and plastic products by 0.2 percent.
The index for non-food articles group like sunflower, raw rubber and cotton declined by 0.6 percent and the index for chemical and chemical products like benzene declined by 0.1 percent.
The ministry said the WPI for all commodities stood at 236.9 as compared to 236.1 (provisional) for the week ended June 14 and annual rate of inflation based on final index, calculated on point-to-point basis, stood at 11.8 percent as compared to 11.42 percent (provisional).
The finance ministry in a statement said inflation rate for 30 essential commodities stood at 6.74 percent for the week ending Aug 9, compared to 6.54 percent for the week before.
Double digit inflation to continue till December: D&B
Earlier Thursday, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the problem of inflation was short term and would moderate in due course, as the government has taken several monetary and administrative measures to rein in inflation.
"Inflation will moderate. Let's have patience," Ahluwalia said.
Ahluwalia also brushed aside apprehensions that the government's recent decision to hike employees' salaries would have any adverse impact on the country's economy.
Inflation or terms of trade adjustment?
"We will be able to deal with any implications (arising out of the salary hike)," he said.
The Prime minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC), in its "Economic Outlook Report 2008-09", has predicted a 7.7 percent economic growth in the current fiscal, as compared to 9.1 percent last fiscal.
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20 August 2008
New FnO Lot sizes of 39 stks from Aug 21
NSE/FAOP/11155
Introduction of futures and options contracts on 39 additional individual securities
Introduction of futures and options contracts on 39 additional individual securities
In continuation to our circular NSE/F&O/081/2008 dated August 12, 2008 members are requested to note that the market lot for the additional 39 securities, available for trading in F & O segment with effect from August 21, 2008, will be as follows:
S. No Name Symbol Lot Size
1 ABG SHIPYARD LIMITED
ABGSHIP 550
2 AKRUTI CITY LIMITED
AKRUTI 300
3 ASIAN PAINTS LIMITED
ASIANPAINT 200
4 BALAJI TELEFILMS LTD.
BALAJITELE 1250
5 CONTAINER CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED
CONCOR 250
6 CORE PROJECTS AND TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
COREPROTEC 750
7 DECCAN CHRONICLE HOLDINGS LTD.
DCHL 1700
8 DISH TV INDIA LIMITED
DISHTV 5150
9 EVERONN SYSTEMS INDIA LIMITED
EVERONN 400
10 FIRSTSOURCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
FSL 4750
11GUJARAT STATE PETRONET LIMITED
GSPL 3050
12 GTL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
GTLINFRA 4850
13 GVK POWER & INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
GVKPIL 4750
14 HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD
HCL-INSYS 1700
15 INDIABULLS REAL ESTATE LIMITED
IBREALEST 650
16 ICSA (INDIA) LIMITED
ICSA 600
17 KLG SYSTEL LTD.
KLGSYSTEL 500
18 K S OILS LIMITED
KSOILS 2950
19 MIC ELECTRONICS LIMITED
MIC 1400
20 MINDTREE LIMITED
MINDTREE 600
21 MERCATOR LINES LIMITED
MLL 2450
22 MONNET ISPAT LTD
MONNETISPA 450
23 MRF LTD.
MRF 100
24 NAVA BHARAT VENTURES LIMITED
NBVENTURES 800
25 NOIDA TOLL BRIDGE COMPANY LTD
NOIDATOLL 4100
26 OPTO CIRCUITS (INDIA) LIMITED
OPTOCIRCUI 600
27 ORBIT CORPORATION LIMITED
ORBITCORP 750
28 PRISM CEMENT LIMITED
PRISMCEM 5550
29 PTC INDIA LIMITED
PTC 2350
30 RELIANCE INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
RIIL 200
31 SINTEX INDUSTRIES LTD.
SINTEX 700
32 SREI INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE LIMITED
SREINTFIN 1750
33 THERMAX LTD
THERMAX 450
34 TORRENT POWER LIMITED
TORNTPOWER 1700
35 TELEVISION EIGHTEEN INDIA LTD.
TV-18 850
36 UCO BANK
UCOBANK 5000
37 UTV SOFTWARE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
UTVSOF 300
38 VOLTAMP TRANSFORMERS LIMITED
VOLTAMP 250
39 WALCHANDNAGAR INDUSTRIES LTD
WALCHANNAG 700
As specified earlier through circular no. NSE/F&O/12/2003 dated April 21, 2003, regarding the introduction of option contracts on individual securities, the closing price of the securities in the underlying market shall be rounded off by the applicable strike interval multiplier to derive the at-the-money strike price. Three In-the-money and Three Out-of-the-money strike prices shall be introduced based on the At-the-money strike for both put and call options.
The new contracts will be available for trading from August 21, 2008. Members are advised to take the latest contract.gz, security.gz and fo_participant.gz files from NSE EXTRANET, directory:/faoftp/faocommon before start of trading on August 21, 2008. A detailed list of new contracts being introduced for trading (file name: CONTRACT20082008.CSV) will be available on the path faoftp/faocommon/contracts on August 20, 2008 after market hours.
For any clarification members are requested to contact following officials
Shalini Rebeiro, Sachin Dhar and Janardhan Gujaran on 022-26598151, 022-26598152
Source:NSEINDIA.com
Introduction of futures and options contracts on 39 additional individual securities
Introduction of futures and options contracts on 39 additional individual securities
In continuation to our circular NSE/F&O/081/2008 dated August 12, 2008 members are requested to note that the market lot for the additional 39 securities, available for trading in F & O segment with effect from August 21, 2008, will be as follows:
S. No Name Symbol Lot Size
1 ABG SHIPYARD LIMITED
ABGSHIP 550
2 AKRUTI CITY LIMITED
AKRUTI 300
3 ASIAN PAINTS LIMITED
ASIANPAINT 200
4 BALAJI TELEFILMS LTD.
BALAJITELE 1250
5 CONTAINER CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED
CONCOR 250
6 CORE PROJECTS AND TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
COREPROTEC 750
7 DECCAN CHRONICLE HOLDINGS LTD.
DCHL 1700
8 DISH TV INDIA LIMITED
DISHTV 5150
9 EVERONN SYSTEMS INDIA LIMITED
EVERONN 400
10 FIRSTSOURCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
FSL 4750
11GUJARAT STATE PETRONET LIMITED
GSPL 3050
12 GTL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
GTLINFRA 4850
13 GVK POWER & INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
GVKPIL 4750
14 HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD
HCL-INSYS 1700
15 INDIABULLS REAL ESTATE LIMITED
IBREALEST 650
16 ICSA (INDIA) LIMITED
ICSA 600
17 KLG SYSTEL LTD.
KLGSYSTEL 500
18 K S OILS LIMITED
KSOILS 2950
19 MIC ELECTRONICS LIMITED
MIC 1400
20 MINDTREE LIMITED
MINDTREE 600
21 MERCATOR LINES LIMITED
MLL 2450
22 MONNET ISPAT LTD
MONNETISPA 450
23 MRF LTD.
MRF 100
24 NAVA BHARAT VENTURES LIMITED
NBVENTURES 800
25 NOIDA TOLL BRIDGE COMPANY LTD
NOIDATOLL 4100
26 OPTO CIRCUITS (INDIA) LIMITED
OPTOCIRCUI 600
27 ORBIT CORPORATION LIMITED
ORBITCORP 750
28 PRISM CEMENT LIMITED
PRISMCEM 5550
29 PTC INDIA LIMITED
PTC 2350
30 RELIANCE INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
RIIL 200
31 SINTEX INDUSTRIES LTD.
SINTEX 700
32 SREI INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE LIMITED
SREINTFIN 1750
33 THERMAX LTD
THERMAX 450
34 TORRENT POWER LIMITED
TORNTPOWER 1700
35 TELEVISION EIGHTEEN INDIA LTD.
TV-18 850
36 UCO BANK
UCOBANK 5000
37 UTV SOFTWARE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
UTVSOF 300
38 VOLTAMP TRANSFORMERS LIMITED
VOLTAMP 250
39 WALCHANDNAGAR INDUSTRIES LTD
WALCHANNAG 700
As specified earlier through circular no. NSE/F&O/12/2003 dated April 21, 2003, regarding the introduction of option contracts on individual securities, the closing price of the securities in the underlying market shall be rounded off by the applicable strike interval multiplier to derive the at-the-money strike price. Three In-the-money and Three Out-of-the-money strike prices shall be introduced based on the At-the-money strike for both put and call options.
The new contracts will be available for trading from August 21, 2008. Members are advised to take the latest contract.gz, security.gz and fo_participant.gz files from NSE EXTRANET, directory:/faoftp/faocommon before start of trading on August 21, 2008. A detailed list of new contracts being introduced for trading (file name: CONTRACT20082008.CSV) will be available on the path faoftp/faocommon/contracts on August 20, 2008 after market hours.
For any clarification members are requested to contact following officials
Shalini Rebeiro, Sachin Dhar and Janardhan Gujaran on 022-26598151, 022-26598152
Source:NSEINDIA.com
RIL may be allowed to sell diesel in domestic market
RIL may be allowed to sell diesel in domestic market
New Delhi, Aug. 19 With the diesel demand showing an 18-per cent growth and oil companies depending on imports to bridge the gap, the Government is considering changes in tax norms to allow refineries in export-oriented units such as Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to feed the domestic market.
It is also mulling a differential pricing for power and other industrial consumers of the fuel.
After a review meeting with the chiefs of PSU oil companies here on Tuesday, the Petroleum Minister, Mr Murli Deora, said that a consistent, long-term pricing policy for diesel is required – one which would balance social concerns with business realities. The Ministry was seeking changes in tax rules to allow EOU refineries to supply petroleum products to PSU refiners.
Mr Sarthak Behuria, Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, told news persons that “We have written to Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and the Commerce Ministry in this regard, and if the Finance Ministry also approves it, we will be able to buy diesel from Reliance as is the case with LPG.”
An EOU refinery will have to pay both customs and excise duty for selling the products in the domestic market. The excise duty comprises two components - ad valorem and specific. Currently, the EOU will have to face double taxation in specific.
In addition, the company will have to pay income-tax on its profits when it sells fuel in the domestic tariff area (DTA). “It is being examined if domestic sales by Reliance in the DTA can be given a ‘deemed export status’ and it continues to get income-tax waiver,” he said. RIL already enjoys a deemed export status for selling LPG to the PSUs.
Surge in demand
Mr Behuria said that industrial use of subsidised diesel was pushing up demand and forcing the refiners to increase imports. The output by Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation together in 2008-09 was estimated at 39.49 million tonne, with the demand being at 54.79 m.t.While transport and agriculture demand for diesel had grown by 10-12 per cent, consumption by power producers and other industries had risen 30 per cent.
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RIL may get export perks for diesel sales
Aiming to meet the shortfall of diesel, which has witnessed exponential demand growth, the government is considering a proposal to declare Reliance Industries' sales of the fuel domestically as deemed exports.
State-owned oil marketing companies, which will import about 3.5 million tonnes of diesel this financial year —about 20 per cent more than last year — to meet higher demand growth, say it would be cheaper to buy from Reliance Industries’ refinery if it is given the deemed export status as compared with importing diesel. If granted, these public sector companies will not have to pay transportation charges and taxes such as customs duty.
“The gap between domestic diesel production and demand can be made good by the private sector refineries,” said Sarthak Behuria, chairman and managing director of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the largest oil marketing and crude oil refining company in the country. Demand for diesel grew by 18 per cent between April-July as against government-owned refineries, which can meet about 12 per cent growth in demand, Behuria said.
ON DEMAND
The government is considering a proposal to declare RIL's sales of diesel domestically as deemed exports
The government move comes against the backdrop of exponential diesel demand growth
State-owned oil marketing companies were planning to import about 3.5 million tonne of diesel this financial year
It was about 20 per cent more than last year
The firms say the gap between domestic diesel production and demand can be made good by the private sector refineries
Oil marketing companies, including Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, will soon send a formal proposal to the government on removing taxes on domestic diesel sales from RIL’s refinery.
Early last year, RIL’s 33 million-tonne-per-annum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, was granted export-oriented status, which allows the refinery to export products at zero duty. The refinery, which produces about 12 million tonne of diesel every year, will have to pay customs as well as excise duty on the fuel if it sells it in the domestic markets. The two taxes will raise the price of the fuel by more than Rs 9 a litre.
Coupled with the absence of transportation costs and insurance, the price at which the marketing companies buy from the Reliance refinery could be at least 30 per cent cheaper than the imported fuel.
The Reliance refinery already sells cooking gas in the domestic market after the product was given deemed export status last year.
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Source:BS,BL
New Delhi, Aug. 19 With the diesel demand showing an 18-per cent growth and oil companies depending on imports to bridge the gap, the Government is considering changes in tax norms to allow refineries in export-oriented units such as Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to feed the domestic market.
It is also mulling a differential pricing for power and other industrial consumers of the fuel.
After a review meeting with the chiefs of PSU oil companies here on Tuesday, the Petroleum Minister, Mr Murli Deora, said that a consistent, long-term pricing policy for diesel is required – one which would balance social concerns with business realities. The Ministry was seeking changes in tax rules to allow EOU refineries to supply petroleum products to PSU refiners.
Mr Sarthak Behuria, Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, told news persons that “We have written to Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and the Commerce Ministry in this regard, and if the Finance Ministry also approves it, we will be able to buy diesel from Reliance as is the case with LPG.”
An EOU refinery will have to pay both customs and excise duty for selling the products in the domestic market. The excise duty comprises two components - ad valorem and specific. Currently, the EOU will have to face double taxation in specific.
In addition, the company will have to pay income-tax on its profits when it sells fuel in the domestic tariff area (DTA). “It is being examined if domestic sales by Reliance in the DTA can be given a ‘deemed export status’ and it continues to get income-tax waiver,” he said. RIL already enjoys a deemed export status for selling LPG to the PSUs.
Surge in demand
Mr Behuria said that industrial use of subsidised diesel was pushing up demand and forcing the refiners to increase imports. The output by Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation together in 2008-09 was estimated at 39.49 million tonne, with the demand being at 54.79 m.t.While transport and agriculture demand for diesel had grown by 10-12 per cent, consumption by power producers and other industries had risen 30 per cent.
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RIL may get export perks for diesel sales
Aiming to meet the shortfall of diesel, which has witnessed exponential demand growth, the government is considering a proposal to declare Reliance Industries' sales of the fuel domestically as deemed exports.
State-owned oil marketing companies, which will import about 3.5 million tonnes of diesel this financial year —about 20 per cent more than last year — to meet higher demand growth, say it would be cheaper to buy from Reliance Industries’ refinery if it is given the deemed export status as compared with importing diesel. If granted, these public sector companies will not have to pay transportation charges and taxes such as customs duty.
“The gap between domestic diesel production and demand can be made good by the private sector refineries,” said Sarthak Behuria, chairman and managing director of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the largest oil marketing and crude oil refining company in the country. Demand for diesel grew by 18 per cent between April-July as against government-owned refineries, which can meet about 12 per cent growth in demand, Behuria said.
ON DEMAND
The government is considering a proposal to declare RIL's sales of diesel domestically as deemed exports
The government move comes against the backdrop of exponential diesel demand growth
State-owned oil marketing companies were planning to import about 3.5 million tonne of diesel this financial year
It was about 20 per cent more than last year
The firms say the gap between domestic diesel production and demand can be made good by the private sector refineries
Oil marketing companies, including Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, will soon send a formal proposal to the government on removing taxes on domestic diesel sales from RIL’s refinery.
Early last year, RIL’s 33 million-tonne-per-annum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, was granted export-oriented status, which allows the refinery to export products at zero duty. The refinery, which produces about 12 million tonne of diesel every year, will have to pay customs as well as excise duty on the fuel if it sells it in the domestic markets. The two taxes will raise the price of the fuel by more than Rs 9 a litre.
Coupled with the absence of transportation costs and insurance, the price at which the marketing companies buy from the Reliance refinery could be at least 30 per cent cheaper than the imported fuel.
The Reliance refinery already sells cooking gas in the domestic market after the product was given deemed export status last year.
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Sensex cuts losses, ends down 102pts; ACC sheds 6%
Biyani's Future Group clocks Rs 105-cr sales in just one day
RBI to review road map of foreign banks in India
Govt pulls up oil firms, orders clearing of LPG waitlist
Reliance Big TV targets 40% share of DTH pie
L&T close to picking equity in Australian, Indonesian coal mines
Storage level in major reservoirs improves
Indiabulls set to sell 35% stake in comex
GMR Energy aims to raise Rs 2,600 cr from stake sale
iPhone to cost Rs 31,000 to Rs 36,000 in India
Govt mulls dual price for diesel
Balaji promoters to buy back Star`s stake
Source:BS,BL
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Hindalco
Technical Calls - Aug 20 2008
Reliance Communications launches BIG TV
Reliance Power
Stocks: Cheap but best avoided
Bilpower
Vishal Information Technologies Fun
Grey Market Premiums
India Telecom, India Banking, India Sugar
Havells India
Cement Sector Update
NTPC, Tata Motors, Mercator Lines, Bharat Forge, I...
India Equity Strategy
India Construction
Thermax
Source: Above blog.
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