Market Roundup

• Hero Honda to foray into 4-wheelers
• Tata Motors reports 43 pc growth in November sales
• HMI's wholly-owned arm begins operations
• Thomas Cook to buy Travel Corp for Rs182-cr
• SPIC to invest $200mn in its Jordan operations
• Bajaj motorcycle sales rise 36 pc in November
• TVS motorcycle sales up 1.1 pc in Nov
• Guidelines followed for Wal-mart entry: Mittal
• Maruti sales up 21 pc at 52,574 units in November
• Shoppers Stop can do biz at Bangalore airports
• Malaysia's top cell phone operator to expand India operations
• Shringar Cinema flags off operations at Fame Aurangabad
• Ranbaxy acquires South African generics firm
• Sun TV's equity base to rise

• Inflation rises to 5.45 pc
• US introduces new citizenship test
• Train tickets may be sold in post offices
• DoT lays out tougher subscriber verification norms
• Israel considering free trade agreement with India

• Rupee firms up
• Citibank starts biometric ATMs
• Barclays to foray into credit cards in India
• Forex reserves jump by $5.9bn in November

• Essar Shipping plans delisting from BSE
• Reliance Communication touches $20bn market cap
• LT Overseas IPO oversubscribed seven times
• Nifty touches 4,000 in intraday trade

• ADB picks up 4.99 per cent stake in Chinese bank
• Microsoft releases new versions of Windows, Office
• Lucent deal completed
• Kerkorian sells entire stake in GM

• Zubair Ahmed resigns from Gillette India