INDIA

If globalization were put on the balot in the U.S. it would lose, GE chief Jeffrey Immelt warns.

U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. is betting rising incomes and an aspiring middle-class in countries such as India and China will boost its international revenues, a senior company official said on Friday.

Pacific rim trade ministers pushed for a revival of stalled world trade talks on Friday, but committed themselves to work towards setting up their own trade bloc if a global deal fails.

A deal could be off, as the U.S. stepped up criticism of India and Brazil over failed talks

U.S life insurer Prudential Financial Inc. is in the final stages of picking an Indian company to form an asset management joint venture to break into the market, an executive said on Wednesday.

Security concerns and a sharp drop in the dollar helped gold hit its highest level in nearly two weeks on Monday, but investors were expected to trade cautiously ahead of the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

Honda Motor Co. is keen for its share of rapidly-growing markets like India and China to increase, its chairman said on Sunday, but Japan's second biggest auto maker is not in a hurry to enter the new battleground for very cheap small cars in India.

Marriott International Inc., the top U.S. hotel operator, said on Friday it would more than triple its hotel portfolio in India by the end of 2010 as it cashes in on rising business and leisure travel.

Saudi Telecom is to buy 25 percent of Malaysia's Maxis in a $3 billion deal that gives the Arab world's top telecom operator access to Indonesia and India, and marks southeast Asia's biggest buyout.

Zoellick will take over after a controversial two-year term by Paul Wolfowitz.

Indian fund managers and brokerages face a severe shortage of analysts as talent is snapped up by big-spending foreign firms lured by a four-year bull run in the local stock market.

Global real estate investment is still buoyant but a few cracks are starting to show as higher borrowing costs begin to bite, making 2007 a pivotal year after an extended bull run in property prices.

Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves! go the stirring words that open China's national anthem.

Key trade representatives from the U.S. , EU Brazil, and India could resume talks.

U.S. officials said India and Brazil were to blame for the breakdown on Thursday of trade talks that some were billing as a final chance to spur the Doha round toward completion.

Morgan Stanley, a top Wall Street firm, has raised an $8 billion real estate fund through its property arm to focus on North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

From depressed investment to bulging foreign exchange reserves, Asia's economies are still deeply marked by the legacy of the financial crisis that engulfed the region a decade ago.

Yahoo Inc. said it signed agreements with six mobile operators across Asia, as part of a broad global expansion that will see its mobile services in tens of millions of phones by the end of the year.

Globaliz ation is good, but people are earning less of the wealth generated by economic growth and integration as the decades go by, the OECD said on Tuesday.

Bigger is becoming better.

Planemakers are riding high on surging demand that has pushed orders well over $100 billion a year, but cracks are beginning to show and the sprawling Paris air show which opens on Monday could reveal a slowdown looms.