Market roundup

COMPANIES

• Jindal Steel & power signs contract for El Mutun with Bolivian government
• Biocon licenses biosynthetic cancer drug to Abraxis BioScience
• United Airlines to start taking pilots' job applications online
• IndiGo's new flights: Mumbai to Delhi and Bangalore
• Wipro eying acquisitions in Canada, Germany
• Reliance Communications 5 per cent in towers business to investors
• HPCL, ONGC sign infrastructure sharing accord
• Glenmark acquires rights to two therapeutic antibodies from Chromos
• Air India Express to operate Malaysia flights from October
• After withdrawing form Alitalia bid, Air One now after Jat

• US asks India to reopen Army's helicopter contract
• US firms to lobby for Indo-US N-deal?
• Nepal approves West Seti project for hydropower exports to India
• Six Indian Hawk AJTs ready for deployment
• Domestic flights: Both pilots can be foreigners
• India-Malaysia aviation pact will boost tourism

• Sensex above 15,600 points
• Dow crosses 14000 mark
• Oil prices ease

• Rupee up against dollar
• Corporation Bank cuts interest rate on home loans
• BoI in bancassurance deal with ING products
• Union Bank office in Abu Dhabi

• Alitalia auction closes without a serious bidder
• Delphi backs Appaloosa's $2.55 billion bid, rejects Highland's offer
• Eaton to supply hydraulics package for Sikorsky CH-53K
• China's GDP growth hits 11-1/2-year high of 11.9 per cent in Q2 '07
• Pacific theatre missile defence experts meet in Hawaii
• First unmanned aircraft squadron to fight Iraq insurgency
• CAE gets $105 million in long-term financing for aviation training
• Brazil signals tough talks to save WTO deal
• Standardising European mobile broadcast TV may retard competition: Datamonitor
• Buyout firms may join fray for Jaguar, Rover, say reports