Corporate News Headline
•ONGC said its overseas crude output will fall this year as fields age, and an increase is likely after new areas in Brazil and Myanmar start production by 2012. (Bloomberg)
•NTPC has agreed to buy natural gas from RIL but is opposed to paying marketing margin to the private firm and wants to use the fuel at plants other than Kawas and Gandhar that were identified by the government. (BS)
•Infotech Enterprises has secured a multi-million dollar contract from Malaysia-based inCONTROL Tech for implementing GIS information system for a power utility in that country. (BS)
Economic and Political Headline
•The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the country's economy is even now capable of growing by 8%-9%, the same rate as it did before the global financial meltdown set in. (BS)
•JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Morgan Stanley were among 10 lenders that won the US Treasury approval to buy back USD 68 bn of government shares, freeing them from added oversight that curbed lending practices, hiring, and pay. (Bloomberg)
•China's passenger-vehicle sales rose 47% in May, the biggest jump since February 2006, as tax cuts and government subsidies helped extend the country's lead over the US as the world's biggest auto market this year. (Bloomberg)
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