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Toyota, the world's top-selling carmaker, is considering downgrading its US sales forecast to account for a worsening outlook for pick-up trucks and other big vehicles in its largest market

While the price tag for the deal is not huge in merger terms, it might be a sign of things to come from India and other emerging markets.

Gulf stock markets posted strong performance in Dubai and Doha today, while KSA and Kuwait registered a slight decline. The stock market in Doha led the rise, gaining 1.4%, followed by Dubai, which rose 1.1%, while markets in Abu Dhabi, Muscat and Bahrain rose by less than 0.5%.

FOSTER'S has announced a limited release of 5000 champagne-style bottles of beer - to be sold at $60 each.

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. urged oil-producing countries to open their markets to investment that can increase yields, exploration and production.

US mortgage rates soared last week amid a sharp rise in Treasury market yields, as investors started to bet that inflation pressures could prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates later this year

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- A growing number of mutual fund sales are made by financial advisers, but a shrinking number of those transactions are carrying traditional point-of-sale commissions.

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Investors are getting new ways to tap fixed-income markets through bond exchange-traded funds, but the planned liquidation of some unique Treasury ETFs is a reminder that not every new product is a hit.

THE Australian sharemarket may open slightly higher today after mixed and relatively flat trading on US markets on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico primary on Sunday, taking the majority of the U.S. territory's 63 delegates and superdelegates over her rival, front-runner Sen. Barack Obama, news networks said. Clinton was expected to win by a wide margin, based on exit surveys at Puerto Rico polls. The primary was marked by low turnout as voters there aren't be allowed to cast ballots in the November general election.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.