Market roundup

COMPANIES

• Crucial time ahead for Cumi
• Biocon in pact with Abraxis to market breast cancer drug Abraxane in India
• ONGC demands $4.75 per mBtu for gas, hike in APM price
• Air India drops Mumbai-New York non-stop flight fare
  
• Haier launches first refrigerator manufacturing and R&D facility in India
• Air India to join Star Alliance
  
• Apollo Hospital set to acquire medical BPO in US
• AI, Indian still operating separately
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to source power tools from India
• Reliance to invest $40,000 crore in Egypt
• Tata Steel restructuring Corus buyout loan
• BHEL bags Rs 2,900-crore order from Aravali Power

• Cabinet clears Rs5,611-crore highways six-laning project
• Punjab's organic cotton looking at German markets
  
• China's growth to continue unabated in 2008, despite overheating concerns
  
• Israel to partner in Nagpur airport project
  
• Flying abroad soon to be cheaper?
  
• Cooch Behar airport to open on I-Day
  
• Indian airports to get modern facilities
  
• New ECB Norms: Robbing Peter to Paul?
• Oil falls below $72 on US economic worries
• RBI seen opting for another CRR hike
• Government approves changes in livestock, fisheries package

• BNP freezes funds worth $2.2 billion on liquidity crunch
• RBI constitutes working group on interest rate futures

• Nokia teams up with STMicro for mobile phone chips, widens supplier base
• Campbell considers divesting Godiva chocolates business
• Tesco extends £155.6m offer for Dobbies to 19 August
• Vodafone to retrain stake in its joint venture with Verizon
• E.ON buys Spanish wind farm company
• Final Report on New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia airspace redesign issued
  
• Air Methods Corp to acquire CJ Systems from FSS Airholdings
  
• Vijay Mallya and Epic Aircraft: Buying a stake or a plane?
  
• LSE investors back Italian deal
  
• Dubai's Isthimar to acquire Barneys as Fast Retailing drops out
  
• Continuing warfare in Iraq fuels BAE profits
  
• Google's Postini acquisition approved by US regulator