Market roundup

COMPANIES

• Tata Steel acquires stake in Riversdale's Mozambique coal project
• Jaiprakash Associates acquires Malvika Steel, enters steel sector
• Punj Lloyd enters realty business
• Siemens and Shanghai Electric in new JV pact
• Tata Tea postpones open offer for Mount Everest Mineral Water
• Dabur India targets Rs55 crore from Odomos
• Kaveri Medical Centre to acquire Seahorse Hospital in Trichy
  
• Dunlop India disputes its land sale
  
• Delphi to supply driver information systems for Mahindra & Mahindra's Ingenio
  

• RBI considers rupee futures exchange
• American hostility to oil above nuclear power: MIT survey
• Thailand wants to build a UAV for its military
• RQ-4B Global Hawk: Mother of all UAVs?
• Electronic equipment production in India to reach $32 billion by 2011: Gartner
• Fiserv to acquire CheckFree
• Deora rules out government intervention in RIL gas pricing
• Inflation rate dips marginally to 4.36 per cent
• Mutual fund kitty swells by Rs86,180 crore in July
  
• Trebling India-South Africa bilateral trade by 2010 achievable: minister

• Markets end with moderate gains; US markets downed bymortgage fears

• SBI to float holding company; shortlists 3 for general insurance JV

• DaimlerChrysler, Cerberus complete Chrysler deal
• Ford plans to sell Land Rover, Jaguar by 30 September
• Nissan unveils concept cars
• South Africa's Medi-Clinic to buy Hirslanden of Switzerland
• Shell to sell two French refineries and Norwegian assets stake
• Esmark-led group to acquire Mittal Steel's Baltimore plant
• Sony/ATV Music Publishing completes acquisition of Famous Music LLC from Viacom
• Marubeni wins Fujairah-2 power and water project in the UAE
• Lockheed Martin to make 30 F-16s for Turkey
• Helicopter service to cover Pune-Mumbai in 19 minutes
• Proxy Aviation to display its SkyRaider UAV at Webster Field
• Lockheed tempts India with F-35 Lightning II
• Mattel to take a $30 million charge on recall of China-made toys
  
• Pratt & Whitney bags $1.05 billion deal for F117 engines
  
• AMO drops its bid for Bausch & Lomb
  
• Nasdaq's new private equity portal starts on 15 August
  
• DuPont settles patent infringement case against Chinese company
  
• Albemarle Corporation acquires controlling stake in antioxidant JV in China
  
• Huntsman and Flint Hills Resources close on sale of US polymers business