Market Roundup

• HCL to create 600 more jobs in UK
• BSNL to float Rs.20,000 crore tender for 40-60 million lines
• ONGC-MRPL combine win nomination for Rajasthan crude oil purchase
• Country's mobile user base crosses 63mn mark in August
• Tata Steel and Jharkhand signs MoUs for Rs.55.000 crore greenfield projects
• Foreign investors to pick up equity in Spicejet
• Ashok Leyland April-Aug sales up 18 per cent
• Bharti and IBM to offer managed services

GENERAL

• ADB report: China, India lead Asia in oil consumption
• Sensex at 8,000: India Inc says its thanks to a healthy economy
• Baalu asks global investors to tap 'infrastructure revolution'
• Govt. to review FBT distortions

• Rupee firms up as securities fall
• RBI: Eleven State govt.'s to raise Rs.2,900 crore
• RBI: NBFCs of asset size Rs.100 crore and above to file monthly returns
• Kotak Life aims for 100 per cent year-on-year growth
• Fifteen per cent dividend and bonus issue from GIC

MARKETS

• Sensex at 8,000: still in comfort zone, says Chidambaram
• Tribunal asks Sebi to clarify stance on ADR/GDR holdings
• Himatsingka board clears stock split and bonus issue
• Nagarjuna Const to go in for GDR issue of US$120mn

• Mark Fields takes over Ford's American operations

• Vishal Dhupar to head Symantec India
• Anuj Poddar to head strategy for MTV, South Asia