COMPANIES

• US dumping decision will affect SAIL
• Telstra exits JV with Modi group
• Reliance records increased Q3 profit, sales
• Jindal Strips buys holding in US company
• Birla group to reduce stake in India Gypsum
• ICICI Venture invests in Indus-League
• Techpack plans JV
• Tata Finance Amex buys forex business
• Dishnet proposal okayed
• Dr Reddy’s wins case in Moscow
• Warner-Lambert looks to P&G
• Crusoe family of chips from Transmeta
• Vodafone ready to hike Mannesmann bid price
• Clariant bids for BTP

GENERAL

• ICICI cuts home loan interest rate
• RBI’s auction oversubscribed
• Dena Bank to launch net banking
• Insurance companies oppose revised tariff
• IDBI Bank plans factoring service
• Citibank has two web-based products

CAPITAL MARKET

• Sensex tumbles as stocks turn wea
• BSE identifies 100 cos for higher trade band
• Sebi to review book-building norms
• CMC issue plan shelved
• IOB’s IPO in March
• Cinevista IPO
• Satyam Infoway gets nod for ADR
• RBI relaxes GDR/ADR issue rules
• Sell and Cash product from SHCIL

PEOPLE

• MAC passes away
• Ravi Ramu quits KPMG, joints infotech startup