A cure to the Russian flu will help markets
The stock market can be no exception to the meltdown that has hit the global markets. While Madrid fell by 4.3 per cent, Zurich by 3.5 per cent, Frankfurt by 4.5 per cent and London by 3 per cent, the Sensex fell by only 67 points or 2.3 per cent. What lies ahead depends upon how and how soon the Russian crisis would be resolved.

Hard volumes drive up VJIL's scrip in secondary market
The recent onset of the software boom has presented the also-rans in the industry with the perfect alibi. Software minnows, promoted by technocrat entrepreneurs, of late, have hogged the limelight and have witnessed their market capitalisation grow by leaps and bounds.