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Factors behind the wild oil price swings
Even after the recent fall, oil prices are much above last year's levels and are hurting particularly oil-intensive Asian economies including India, says Vinish Kathuria.

FINANCIAL SCENE
NBFCs in 1998 and 2005
The RBI is belatedly trying to extend regulation over the residuary non-banking companies. However, as happened in the aftermath of the NBFC shakeout (when many failed NBFCs blamed the RBI), the RNBCs too may blame regulation for all their problems.

NETSPEAK
Blinkx with smart folders
THIS WEEK'S column explores the new features of the innovative search tool Blinkx. Popular search tools — search engines such as Google/A9 and the desktop search programs such as copernic/google desktop search — respond to our query ...

WEEK IN FINANCIAL MARKETS
Bourses in bull orbit
IT WAS Merry Christmas for retail investors and stock market operators. A day ahead of Christmas, the benchmark Sensex and the Nifty touched all time highs, both intra-day and closing, last week. Breaking all previous records, the BSE Sensex shot ...

TAX FORUM - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Senior citizens savings scheme
QUESTION: Is nomination available in the case of deposit in joint names or only for deposits in single name? The doubt arises because the share of each nominee, where there is more than one nominee, is required to be indicated. In the case ...



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