SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor may miss its overseas sales target next month because of strikes at its South Korean plants, said a company executive with direct knowledge of the sales.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge has denied a request by Orbitz Worldwide Inc , Sabre Holdings Corp and Travelport Ltd to dismiss a lawsuit filed by American Airlines Inc that accuses the companies of antitrust violations.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The euro, Asian shares and commodities held steady on Wednesday as investors awaited U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech to international central bankers gathering in Jackson Hole on Friday and a European Central Bank meeting next week.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy is stabilizing slowly as pro-growth government policies gain traction while real estate curbs have surpressed speculation, the head of the country's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flight attendants at American Airlines on Sunday accepted the company's last and final contract offer, a decision that will help the bankrupt carrier in its bid to cut labor costs.

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The City of London financial district, though diminished by scandals and job cuts, is proving irresistible to fed-up Parisian bankers fleeing France's rising taxes and the feeling that they're not best loved at home.

LONDON (Reuters) - G4S is set to pull out of Pakistan amid an increasingly hostile environment for foreign security companies, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top four banks extended 70 billion yuan ($11 billion) of new local-currency loans during the first half of August, up from 50 billion yuan in the same period a month earlier, an official newspaper reported on Monday.

(Reuters) - Shares in Samsung Electronics, South Korea's most valuable firm, fell 3 percent in early trade on Monday, extending falls into a second day as investors took profits following a one-month surge.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares inched lower on Monday, taking a break after investor risk appetite had risen on hopes that Europe's policymakers will take decisive steps to tackle the euro zone's debt crisis in coming weeks.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's domestic migrant labor force could power consumer spending growth in the world's second biggest economy if workers had better access to basic welfare services in the cities where they live and work, a new government report says.

(Reuters) - Insurer Aetna Inc has signed a deal to buy rival Coventry Health Care Inc for $5.7 billion in cash and stock, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.