IBT Staff Reporter

India's third-largest software services exporter, Wipro Ltd., is in talks for software and technological support contract for an upcoming Boeing facility in India, an official said on Monday.

Internal investigators have uncovered more than 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) of dubious payments at Siemens' telecoms and turbines divisions, far more than previously thought, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung said.

World oil prices are headed for $100 per barrel, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez predicted on Saturday, and said he will cut supplies to the United States if the U.S. government attacks the South American nation again.

A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced a television reporter to one year in jail for fabricating a report that Beijing dumpling makers used cardboard as a filling.

Years of economic policy mistakes after the fall of Saddam Hussein left unemployed young Iraqis easy targets for recruitment by al Qaeda and other insurgents, a U.S. Defense Department official said on Sunday.

China's economic indicators may have entered the danger zone, forcing the central bank to continue tightening steps to prevent the economy from overheating, a senior central bank official said in remarks published on Monday.

Noisy protests against a historic but controversial nuclear energy deal between India and the United States disrupted the Indian parliament on Monday as lawmakers demanded the government cancel the agreement.

In Manhattan, the much maligned apartment co-op board, famous for rejecting notables such as Richard Nixon and Mariah Carey, may turn out to have been the last line of defense against risky lending practices.

The boss of a Chinese toy manufacturing company involved in a Mattel recall after its products were found to contain excessive lead levels has hanged himself, Chinese media reported on Monday.

The world's No.2 soft drink firm PepsiCo has agreed to buy Russia's top juice maker Lebedyansky for $1.5-2 billion to boost its modest Russian juice market share, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Asian stock markets made a tentative recovery on Monday following last week's hammering as fears of a global credit crisis eased after central banks around the world pumped money into banking systems.

The quality of Chinese home loans is worse than in the United States, where a subprime mortgage crisis is causing turmoil in global financial markets, according to a prominent academic quoted in a Hong Kong newspaper on Sunday.

Stock of Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No. 3 maker of personal computers, may be overpriced when compared with its peers Hewlett-Packard and Dell , Barron's said on Sunday.

Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. is considering selling its loss-making mobile phone operations and is already in preliminary talks with several domestic cellphone makers, a source close to the matter said.

Between the shelves of product catalogues on the wall of a spartan office in an eastern German lighting factory sits a framed quotation, in bold black lettering on silver paper, from Winston Churchill.

Biotechnology giant Amgen Inc is gearing up for cost cuts as it weathers a siege on its lucrative anemia drug business that accounted for about half of its sales last year.

Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC), top shareholder of South Korea's Hyundai Oilbank Corp., will pick preferred bidders for a 35 percent stake in the refiner, sources close to the deal said on Monday.

U.S.-financed China Public Security Technology will provide software that links to at least 20,000 police surveillance cameras being installed along streets in southern China, according to the New York Times on Sunday.

The havoc in the credit markets could reduce prices that office, industrial, apartment and shopping-center properties have commanded over the past few years.

Japan's economy grew an anemic 0.1 percent in the April-June quarter, reinforcing expectations that a shake-out in global markets will prompt the central bank to rethink a rate hike this month.

AirTran Holdings Inc. said on Sunday it has walked away from its hostile bid to acquire Midwest Air Group Inc. as Midwest has accepted a rival takeover offer.

Dutch chemicals company Akzo Nobel is set to announce on Monday it has agreed to buy British rival ICI for about 8 billion pounds ($16.18 billion), people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Politicians need to address problems such as pollution and accelerating urbanization to ensure sustainable wealth creation in Asia, the United Nations said.

POSCO, the world's third-largest steel maker, is seeking approval from the Vietnamese government to establish a steel mill at a cost of $4.5 billion, state media reported on Monday.

Stock index futures signaled a rebound on Wall Street on Monday after gains in overseas markets and data showing U.S. retail sales grew last month, reassuring investors about consumer spending.

On the heels of a crisis, investment bank shares are looking cheap. Some say it's a great time to buy.

For investors, the subprime crisis is the first real test of will since the Internet stock bust six years ago.

As the market punishes banks and lenders for loose lending practices, investors want to know what's really at stake.

Credit spreads and collateralized debt obligations may not mean much to the average U.S. consumer, but if market gyrations persist, Wall Street's pain may come home to hurt Main Street.