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Debashis Basu  and   Pallabika Ganguly 01 April 2010
The Unilever CEO believes that HUL is still the lion in several categories. He is living in his own world. Over the past decade, HUL has repeatedly tried and failed in a large number of new businesses, which makes it look like an also-ran A few days back, the chief executive officer of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2010
Fixed deposit holders should watch out. Banks may be snatching a part of the principal under the garb of deducting tax at source Would you think twice before investing in a fixed deposit? The obvious answer would be a resounding ‘no’. But what if a bank is nibbling away at your principal in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2010
Fixed deposit holders should watch out. Banks may be snatching a part of the principal under the garb of deducting tax at source Would you think twice before investing in a fixed deposit? The obvious answer would be a resounding ‘no’. But what if a bank is nibbling away at your principal in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2010
Markets may remain bullish over the short term, if global cues remain strong The market ended on a strong note today, driven by firm global equity markets. It started the day with a gain. However, it slid soon after that and traded range-bound till afternoon. It regained strength in the...

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Amritha Pillay 01 April 2010
More and more road developers are seeking underwriters for their road projects in order to achieve financial closure faster and bid for more national projects With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) insisting on financial closure of existing projects—or at least a financial...

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Ravi Samalad 01 April 2010
Banking channels are starting to gain a foothold for selling mutual funds, but will this new distribution model help out investors? Many private banks are already selling mutual funds (MFs) and now public sector banks are planning to enter this space. According to media reports, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The central bank’s directive to calculate interest rate on savings deposits on a daily basis is likely to dent a big hole in bankers’ books One of the leading public sector banks has told Moneylife that under the new system, its interest outgo would increase by Rs250 crore in the coming year....

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The market trend is down; it will probably move sideways with a downward bias Markets were volatile throughout the day. They started off on a strong note, but soon pared gains and took a dive. Trading was range-bound for the rest of the day. The trend was downwards.  The BSE Sensex ended the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The market has risen in the March quarter. Based on past patterns, what should we expect? Here is a study of the historical behaviour of the markets over the past 25 years After witnessing a few jitters in the month of January, stock markets have rebounded well to end the March quarter on a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The market has risen in the March quarter. Based on past patterns, what should we expect? Here is a study of the historical behaviour of the markets over the past 25 years After witnessing a few jitters in the month of January, stock markets have rebounded well to end the March quarter on a...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The market watchdog has extended the deadline for implementation of its ‘dealings between a client and a stock broker’ mandate till 30 June 2010 and will leave it to the stock exchages to handle sticky issues Market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given breathing...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The market watchdog has extended the deadline for implementation of its ‘dealings between a client and a stock broker’ mandate till 30 June 2010 and will leave it to the stock exchages to handle sticky issues Market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given breathing...

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Amritha Pillay 31 March 2010
GMR acquired power utility InterGen, based in the Netherlands, at a transaction worth $1.10 billion in 2008. Two years later, not much financial information is available about the acquired company in the public domain GMR Infrastructure’s overseas acquisition of InterGen NV in 2008 was touted...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The SEBI directive means that AMCs will have to pay upfront commissions out of their recurring expenses accounts or from their own pockets In a move to bring protect investors’ interests, market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has mandated all asset management companies...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The SEBI directive means that AMCs will have to pay upfront commissions out of their recurring expenses accounts or from their own pockets In a move to bring protect investors’ interests, market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has mandated all asset management companies...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The SEBI directive means that AMCs will have to pay upfront commissions out of their recurring expenses accounts or from their own pockets In a move to bring protect investors’ interests, market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has mandated all asset management companies...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2010
Expect a sideways movement in the bourses As expected, correction has set in after the markets attempted and failed to make a new 24-month high. Throughout the morning session, the index was up but slipped in afternoon trading. The BSE Sensex was down 121 points (down 0.68%) to 17,590 and the...

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Pallabika Ganguly 30 March 2010
The Centre is proposing to levy service tax, while the State government is planning to charge consumers value-added tax on real estate The fight between the Central and State governments may lead to consumers being double-taxed for buying a piece of real estate. The Central government is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2010
The Sensex has regained a level last seen in February 2008. How have the stocks moved since then? Yesterday, the Sensex closed at 17,711. This level has not been seen since 28 February 2008 when the Sensex had closed at 17,824. In this period, the markets have witnessed a lot of volatility....

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 March 2010
The market regulator’s December 2009 circular on transferring funds back to client accounts periodically has created market-wide confusion. Many brokers have not followed this rule, which was supposed to be implemented by 31 March 2010 A little-discussed circular of the Securities and...

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