StanChart-Aviance card elicits good response
Nearly 30 per cent of Aviance Ltd's -- a 100 per cent subsidiary of Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) -- over 10,000 beauty consultants have opted for the StanChart-Aviance co-branded credit card.

ING fails to reach consensus on price for Aetna units
ING Group NV's negotiations to acquire Aetna Inc's financial-services and international units reached an impasse after the companies failed to agree on a price.

Emerging markets shunned bank lenders in fourth quarter -- BIS
Emerging market debtors continued to repay debt to foreign bank lenders in the fourth quarter of 1999, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a report to be released on Monday.


  World Bank may not give loan forcyclone-hit Orissa
  LIC Housing Finance to distribute insurance policies
  Euro rides buying waveas growth tides reverse
  Japan 10-yr bond yields may tumble further -- Traders
  Market round-up
  Jagmohan sticks to his guns on farmhouses
  India, France MoUfor highwaysdevelopment today
  MbPT invites bids for liquid chemical berth
  World Bank pulls up Maharashtrafor dilly-dallying on power reforms
  Hudco seeks nod to raise interest on EWS scheme
  Forum for speedy clearance of power reform report urged
  EEPC meet to boost tradewith LatAm countries
  Maharashtra SEB ropes in Crisilto appraise escrowable capacity
  Southern Rly eyes transport ofhigh-value goods
  Shareholders cool to Dresdner-Commerzbank talks
  Insurance regulators want global capital standards
  Blast at Colgate's Nepalunit disrupts production
  Sri Lankan Airlines finds theright flight path with Emirates
  Divestment body drafts 3yr plan; Cabinet panel to discuss on Friday
  `Centre against creation of monopolies'
  HDFC Bank to sanction car loans within a minute
  Executive briefing
  Vajpayee calls CMs' meet to discuss state finances