STOCKS TO WATCH - MAY 10

GLOBAL MARKETS ROUNDUP
* Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange are 0.09 percent up and the MSCI-Asia Pacific index excluding Japan is 0.68 percent lower.
* Asian shares eased on Friday, taking their cues from global equities which took a breather from recent rallies overnight, but Japanese equities soared to fresh five-year highs as the dollar's break above the symbolic 100 yen level underpinned sentiment.
* The S&P 500 broke a five-day streak of record closing highs on Thursday, ending a fairly volatile session lower as the market's recent momentum faded and Apple's shares declined.

FACTORS TO WATCH
* India's car industry lobby group releases sales data for April. (0500 GMT)
* India's Industrial output data for March, and 2012/13. The industrial output remained almost flat, growing at 0.9 percent in April-February 2013 period, and is likely to remain subdued in March as well. (0530 GMT)
* Earnings of NTPC Ltd, Apollo Tyres Ltd and Reliance Communications Ltd.

INDIAN STOCKS TO WATCH

*India's Jet set to order over 100 planes at airshow-consultancy - Reuters
*Indian Hotels Company seeks RBI nod to hive off international operations - Economic Times
*Fortis Healthcare plans to raise $100 mln from IFC - Business Standard
*CCI to probe Cipla and 4 others for anti-competitive pricing in Himachal Pradesh - PTI in Economic Times
*Foreign chains get leeway on back-end investments - Business Standard
*ONGC may lose $10 bln global bids - Economic Times
*ONGC, Shell may enter into JV to bid for overseas assets - Economic Times
*RIL to invest $5 bln to reverse KG-D6 gas output fall - Times of India
*India's Escorts Jan-March net up 61.58 pct - Reuters
*Iran courts Indian companies with sweeter oil contracts - Reuters
*Wipro gets nod to meet public holding rules by share transfer - Reuters
*PTC puts coal mine acquisition plan on back burner - Business Standard
*JSW Energy ready for acquisitions - Business Standard
*Supreme Court upholds Cairn-Vedanta Deal, brings relief to government - Economic Times
*GVK awards duty-free & retail contracts to Dufry and DFS at Bali airport - Economic Times
*Air Force invites pvt companies to 100 bln rupee bid for transport aircraft manufacturing - Economic Times
*Gammon infra gets security clearance for port projects - Economic Times
*Rolta to raise $250 mln in Singapore- Economic Times

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