Lending fatigue
The Centre tapped Rs 9,000 crore from the market through the sale of dated securities last week. More could have been garnered, judging by near-equivalent repos sales immediately thereafter. Even so, banks are flush.

Time for change
While R C Mathur's resignation as executive director of the Bombay Stock Exchange was much in line with expectations, it marks the end of the controversy over bailing out some members of the exchange during the payments crisis late last year.

Nato strikes -- What will be left of Yugoslavia
The second strike in the past four days on the Zastavka industrial complex in Kragujevac, 45 miles southwest of Belgrade, which produces the Yugo automobile.

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