India-based Kale Consultants has announced that its revenues for the three month period ended December 31, 2008 rose by 26% to Rs 251.27 million against Rs 199.87 million for the corresponding quarter of the previous year (Dec 2007).

The company has recorded a net profit after tax of Rs 14.79 million, up 79% as compared to Rs 8.26 million for the same period year ago.

According to sources, company's consolidated total income climbed 29% form Rs 286.78 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007 to Rs 368.66 million for the quarter ended Dec 31, 2008.

Rate follows GBP higher; scores highs during New York at 1.3208; rally less volatile and the rate holds tech support at 1.2850/60 area overnight and 1.3180 to end the day. Rally all day today suggests a short-squeeze is in the works.

Stops baked on the dip under 1.2880 again overnight; stops around 1.3030 area and layered above cleared but more likely around 1.3280. Bulls are attempting to find a bottom. 50 bar MA failed now likely to offer resistance and a close above suggests the bottom will be in.

Rate falls back to open Asia but rallies to trade better on the day after MPC Blanchflower comments fail to depress the rate; light stops seen on the move over the 1.3700 area as late shorts get squeezed. Aggressive bids seen and the rate recovers as New York puts on weight.

The USD gave back overnight gains as the Greenback failed to follow through during New York trade; at the close the majors are all better on the day but off their highs suggesting lots of two-way action and a potential short-squeeze underway. US data was better-than-expected this morning as existing home sales showed a gain suggesting that the housing crisis might be ending but savvy traders note that it will take more than one month of gains to suggest the housing problem is mitigating.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Friday said that the sophisticated camera on board Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter has picked up the first X-ray signal from the moon.

The space agency said, “The first X-ray signature was detected from a region near the Apollo landing sites Dec 12 at 02:36 universal time. The solar flare that caused the X-ray fluorescence was exceedingly weak, about 20 times smaller than the minimum the CIXS imaging spectrometer was designed to detect.”

After a disappointing week, which saw the release of Chandni Chowk To China (CC2C), Bhatt’s Raaz - The Mystery Continues and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire have brought smile back to viewers’ faces on Friday.

The audiences welcomed both the films with open arms.

At several cinema halls, Raaz - TMC got 70-80% start that was almost double of Hashmi’s last hit ‘Jannat’, and much bigger than last week’s release ‘CC2C’.

The film Raaz, which cost just 1/3rd of CC2C, received much bigger response than that film.