AirTran Pilots Take Step Toward Strike on Union Vote (Update3) May 18 (Bloomberg) — AirTran Holdings Inc. pilots voted to give union leaders the power to call a strike, a step toward a walkout after more than five years of contract talks at the second-largest U.S. low-fare airline. Read more on Bloomberg

Forest Labs Option Trades Bet on Positive FDA Review (Update3)
March 31 (Bloomberg) — Forest Laboratories Inc. investors are betting the experimental lung treatment Daxas will win support from U.S. drug reviewers next week.

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Google China Exit Means Growth Rests on Korea, Japan (Update3)
March 22 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. ’s looming withdrawal from China adds to pressure to expand in South Korea and Japan, where the Web-search company has won a fraction of the popularity it enjoys in the U.S. and Europe.

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India Said to Propose Sovereign Fund for Oil Assets (Update3)
March 17 (Bloomberg) — India , with $254 billion of foreign-exchange reserves, may create a sovereign wealth fund to help state companies compete for overseas energy assets with China, a government official said.

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BTIG Hires Goldman’s Lentchner as Asia-Pacific Chief (Update3)
BTIG LLC hired Jesse Lentchner, who spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Asia, as chief executive officer of its Asia-Pacific operations.

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Sasol’s First-Half Profit Falls 52% as Oil Declines (Update3)
March 8 (Bloomberg) — Sasol Ltd. , the largest producer of motor fuel made from coal, said first-half profit fell 52 percent as the rand strengthened against the dollar and as the price of competing crude oil declined.

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China Mobile Falls on Pudong Bank Investment Concern (Update3)
March 4 (Bloomberg) — China Mobile Ltd. fell in Hong Kong trading on concern the world’s biggest phone company by value is deviating from its main business by considering an investment in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co.

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Magnitude-6.4 Quake Strikes Taiwan; 12 People Injured (Update3)
March 4 (Bloomberg) — A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan, leaving 12 people injured and shaking buildings in the capital, Taipei. The temblor cut power supplies and caused the country’s high-speed train to halt services.

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Google to Build Network in Challenge to AT&T, Verizon (Update3)
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is planning to build high-speed fiber-optic broadband networks in the U.S. to offer Internet speeds that are more than 100 times faster than what Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. sell today.

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