Tumbling $ hardens rupee to Feb levels
Mumbai: Flying in the face of all forecasts that the rupee would tumble to Rs 50 against the dollar by the end of the current year, an internationally weak dollar is pushing the local currency the other way to a six-month high against the dollar. 
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Rogues gallery: Fortune's list of greediest execs
Mumbai: Of the big companies whose stocks dropped 75 per cent or more from their boom-time peak, Fortune has listed 25 companies where executives took out the most money via stock sales from January 1999 through May 2002. 
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Re strengthens; gilts range-bound
Mumbai: THE rupee closed at its highest this fiscal on Monday, in an otherwise lacklustre forex market, ending at 48.61/62 against the dollar as compared to last Friday's close of 48.6525.
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Restricted movement
Monday's trading witnessed restricted movement. Prices of the tradable counters moved within a close band. Bulls gained handsomely from the day's trading. The market sentiment reading of the tradable counters stands strongly bullish. 
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Pump-induced swings in BPCL, HPCL
Kolkata: The two oil PSU stocks Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) yesterday witnessed significant volatility in view of the speculation that possible litigation over withdrawal of rights to to run the allocated fuel stations of the companies will cause considerable delay in the disinvestment process of the two companies. 
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FI interest in Shyam Tele?
Mumbai: Shyam Telecom witnessed some buying interest from institutional investors, besides increased interest from operators. 
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Across-the-board gains trigger moderate rally
MUmbai: Positive news about the progress of the monsoon triggered a moderate rally in equities on Monday. Buying across-the-board pushed the market indices to a higher level and the BSE Sensitive Index closed at 3,007.85 points, higher by 31.51 points. 
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