In early August, Moody’s Investors Service warned that the risks confronting India’s economy had grown: if fiscal policy were to spur inflation, there would be pressure to change India’s sovereign ratings outlook from stable to negative. Moody’s analyst Aninda Mitra clarified the situation. “Higher oil prices and the lack of adequate fiscal policy reactions… are putting the burden of...

You can put administrative controls but judicious use of the Net is a matter of corporate culture

I have often been asked about standard operating procedures for access to the Internet and use of technology at the workplace. My answer has been simple. Lay down the rules, curb high-risk factors through firewalls and keep a monitoring system. After that, hope like hell that your staff is...

In our previous column in MoneyLIFE, we had maintained that the Sensex was likely to remain range-bound for sometime, between the levels of 14,000 and 15,500, possibly a few months more. This forecast was based on the fact that there is some good support/ resistance at those levels which have been tested several times and have held (the range is an approximation and not exact). This is what...