http://www.livemint.com/ Home- Livemint.com | © CopyRight HT Media Ltd. 2009 en-Us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:10:46 GMT 60 http://www.livemint.com/ http://www.livemint.com/Images/livemintbeta_rss.gif 144 33 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22230254/Sales-boost-only-way-to-push-p.html Companies have enjoyed an earnings surge, mostly thanks to costs shrinking; now they need to sell more Ravi Krishnan and Ashwin Ramarathinam Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:32:00 GMT 35a76c32-d790-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22230958/Firms-wooing-banks-for-foreign.html A low London interbank offered rate is making these loans more attractive to domestic firms Anup Roy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:00 GMT c1396c90-d791-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22233303/Their-story-is-the-story-of-Bh.html Rashida Bee hadn’t heard of Union Carbide Corp. till the night she woke up with a burning sensation in her eyes. For a while she thought someone in the neighbourhood was burning chillies, but then she heard the sounds of people running Akshai Jain Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:29:00 GMT 6009a428-d794-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/23002231/The-wrong-place-at-the-right-t.html If every conflict produces one iconic image, 26/11’s is undoubtedly Sebastian D’Souza’s photo of Ajmal Kasab, frozen mid-rampage at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Samanth Subramanian Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT c01afc9c-d797-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/23004353/Quick-Edit--On-the-prowl-agai.html Companies have been able to raise new equity and refinance old debts over the past six months, thanks to the easing of financial conditions Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:13:00 GMT 00bdb54e-d79f-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22214403/Back-to-the-bubble-territory.html It would be wrong to compare the current market cap with last fiscal year’s GDP. We need to compare it with the GDP for 2009-10 Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty, Mobis Philipose, Ravi Ananthanarayanan and Vatsala Kamat Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14:00 GMT 806c8478-d77c-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22214438/Shree-Renuka8217s-unique-st.html In fiscal 2009, Shree Renuka’s sugar produced from cane declined by 28% to 377,750 tonnes but sugar processed from raw sugar jumped nine fold to 637,089 tonnes Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty, Mobis Philipose, Ravi Ananthanarayanan and Vatsala Kamat Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14:00 GMT 8b47f0f6-d77e-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22214515/Spate-of-bad-news-expected-to.html The trend of falling tariffs has set in. When new operators start services, there may be fresh tariff cuts Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty, Mobis Philipose, Ravi Ananthanarayanan and Vatsala Kamat Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:00 GMT e517e694-d77f-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22214608/GVK-Power-raising-stake-in-Bi.html GVKPIL’s intent to increase stakes in both Mumbai and Bangalore is well timed as air traffic in the second quarter of fiscal 2010 rose 3% over the year-ago period, with passenger traffic rising by 10% Mark to Market | Manas Chakravarty, Mobis Philipose, Ravi Ananthanarayanan and Vatsala Kamat Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:16:00 GMT c90934e8-d780-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22220323/What-if-a-recovery-is-all-in-y.html In important ways, we are still using that 1930s pattern of thinking Recession Theory | Robert J. Shiller Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:33:00 GMT 82fbd0de-d788-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22211539/LyondellBasell-may-lift-RIL-re.html Reliance aims to attain global scale, but the deal is seen bringing limited value to its business in India Bhuma Shrivastava Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT 924589d4-d780-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22222559/Cadbury-aims-for-a-bigger-bite.html Firm targets new customers, expects to double retail presence in two-three years with bigger packs, new Perk Anupama Chandrasekaran Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:55:00 GMT eeac0ef0-d78a-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22223937/Sustaining-the-level-of-growth.html A key effort with the Glucose Perk is to get into shops where the old Perk never existed Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:09:00 GMT b8a9b2c4-d78c-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22220012/Web-firms-try-offline-options.html Analysts say factors such as India’s low Internet penetration, cultural differences and the access that’s provided through knowing the local language, makes such firms to offer an off-line option K. Raghu Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT ab1d121e-d786-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613 http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/22224920/Big-realty-companies-picking-u.html There are several such opportunities in a market where there is still a credit crunch and smaller developers are looking for a rescue Madhurima Nandy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:19:00 GMT 2d4e67a4-d78e-11de-b0f7-000b5dabf613