Less Frito-Lay, same pack
New York: PEPSICO, the nation’s largest salty snack maker, on Tuesday said it will cut the number of Lay’s potato chips it puts in a common-sized bag sold in the US Northeast.

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In bear market, investors tuning out media
New York: Novice investors who devoured huge helpings of financial news during the boom years are being driven away by the relentless drumbeat of bad news, with dire results for news channels, magazines and Web sites.
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EU raids offices of ExxonMobil, Bayer in price fixing probes
Brussels: US giant ExxonMobil and other companies are being investigated by the European Union on suspicion of fixing prices for a material used in making asphalt, officials said on Thursday.
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World economy to recovery in 2003: UN
United Nation: Pushing its earlier growth forecast by six months the United Nations has predicted that world can recover from the present economic gloom only by the mid of 2003.
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Bofors hopeful of winning Indian howitzer order
Swedish arms group Bofors Defence is confident it will win a billion-dollar order from India for up to 400 new howitzers and will be allowed by Sweden to export the weapons, the company said on Wednesday.
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Bush wins end to West Coast lockout
Washington: President Bush won an 80-day halt to a management lockout of West Coast ports on Tuesday as a federal judge granted a court order to reopen the docks and start clearing a huge backlog of cargo from more than 200 ships now idled offshore.
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