Bollywood hottie Mallika Sherawat can’t stop raving about ace Hollywood director Oliver Stone with whom she met at the Global Brand Forum 2008 held in Malaysia.

Mallika was invited last week as a guest speaker at the Global Brand Forum to talk about the challenges and chances in front of the movie business plus about the impact of Indian movies in brands as well as business.

Concerned over declining crude oil prices in the international market, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced to cut production by 2.2 million barrels a day from January 1. Meanwhile, crude prices touched four year low at $40.06 a barrel in the market. Crude prices were $39.44 a barrel on July 13, 2004 and touched peak level of $147 a barrel in July.

OPEC expects increase in demand following proposed production cut. Crude oil demand declined following global financial crisis and fears of recession. Next meeting of oil exporting countries would be held on March 15, 2009 in Vienna.

It’s time for Yash Raj Films (YRF) to begin their grand celebrations as ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ has had a successful run at the box office since its release during the last week.

And if that was not sufficient the news is that Oscar library had made a request to YRF for the script of ‘Rab Ne...’ for its permanent collection.

All this happened because of sensitivity of the script and the strange love story, which pulled the attention of the staff at the library immediately.

Government may take more monetary measures to mitigate the impact of global slow down on Indian economy. Its primary concern is to maintain stability of growth rate and it believes in proactive approach in monetary policy. The chief economic advisor to Finance Ministry, Mr. Arvind Virmani said that aggressive monetary policy is a need of hour to ensure stability of finance system.

Indian real estate firms demanded more monetary measures by government to increase demand in reality sector. Developers urged government to restructure debt and cut in interest rates to push growth rate of home segment. A team of reality firms, headed by National Real Estate development Council (NAREDCO) President, Rohtas Goel met Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and apprised him about the demands of developers.

Copper prices fell to about four-year low in international market following fears of low demand in the wake of global financial crisis. According to recently released data by the World Bureau of Metal Statistics, copper prices declined more than 55 per cent in this year. Analysts at Barclays Capital said that adverse is yet to come and next few quarters would see huge decline in demand as compared to current demand level in the market.