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MARKET REPORT
Sensex sheds 5 points on selling in heavyweight stocks
Tech stocks lose ground on profit booking after recent gains. Selling seen in FMCG and select old economy stocks. Pharma stocks and PSUs rise on sustained buying interest.
DAILY TECHNICALS
Trading strategy for August 29, 2001
Sensex, Infosys, SSI, ACC, MTNL... Check out what you can do on Wednesday.
INTERVIEWS
'India must get the world to condemn what the US is doing with patents'
'If Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights is to be a binding treaty, then the Convention on Biological Biodiversity must be an equally binding treaty. The Americans must be forced to accept it,' says Suman Sahai, Convener, Gene Campaign.
'We have resoundingly lost the basmati case'
'WTO cannot be blamed for our inaction'
'We have been sleeping over the inevitable challenges that we knew would arise out of signing the WTO pact. But there's no point in looking back. We should pull up our socks now,' says
Dr M S Swaminathan.
'A new WTO round will be useful'
'India can play a more effective role if it joins the negotiations soon,' says US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.
STOCK TALK
'I am not optimistic on the market'
'The market is in a narrow trading range and it is hard to make money in futures,' says Ramesh Shrichand Damani.
COLUMNS
Wanted: Activists and supporters for abundant causes
'Another Independence Day has gone by generating the same frustrating debate about untapped potential and missed opportunities, along with rising public anger against rampant corruption and economic degeneration,' says Sucheta Dalal.
Where are the chowkidars?
'The Securities & Exchange Board of India was meant to be the watchdog of the Indian markets. Sadly, it has proved only a sniffer dog, a beast which appears only after the crime has been committed,' says T V R Shenoy.
THE BUDGET & GOVT POLICIES
The Rediff Budget Special: Full coverage
Rail Budget 2001-2002: Full coverage
Credit Policy 2001-2002: Full coverage
Exim Policy 2001-2002: Full coverage
Economic Survey 2000-2001: Full coverage
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In Focus
The UTI Crisis
Capital Market Crisis
Options Guide
Interview
Arun Shourie on divestment
• Earlier interviews
Columns
- Sucheta Dalal on the politician-industrialist-
broker nexus
- Mahesh Nair on
Amitabh Bachchan
Special
- 'How we built Infosys
from scratch'
- IT industry woes
- Firms withdraw job
offers; students panic
- Berkshire weekend
- K V Kamath and ICICI
- The Simputer!
- Salary hikes slashed
- Impact of WTO
- Kerala tourism
- Oil sector boils over
- IIM placements
- More...
Tutorials
- Union Budget
Moneylinks
- Amazon's Problem
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