Air Products’ three nominees won election to the board of Airgas, signaling shareholder support of its takeover bid. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Workers at a Honda manufacturing plant in China have gone on strike against the company. Battling low pay and an increased work load, the young employees hope to improve their frugal lives. Read more..

Jimmy Wang - The New York Times

China will introduce credit-default swaps by year-end, allowing banks to hedge risk while restricting the contracts to avoid pitfalls the U.S. credit markets experienced over the last several years. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Citigroup’s private bank has hired a Union Bancaire Privee hedge fund executive as head of management investments and advisory for Asia-Pacific, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

The treasury secretary plans to testify on Thursday that China has kept the value of its currency artificially low. Read more..

By SEWELL CHAN - The New York Times

Unionized and white-collar workers earned pensions while at a G.M. spinoff, but when the government took over their failing pension plans, only the union retirees were spared. Read more..

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH - The New York Times

Lehman Brothers is a business again two years after declaring the biggest bankruptcy in history, with billions of dollars in cash, 500 employees, real estate and investments in other bankruptcies, Bloomberg News reports. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Taiwan’s China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) has sued Morgan Stanley in a U.S. court to recover millions of dollars in losses it suffered from its investment in a residential mortgage product. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Northern Irish militant group the Real I.R.A. have issued a warning against all banks and bankers, labelling them “criminals,” leaders of the organization told the Guardian in an interview. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

An Iowa farm received hundreds of positive results for salmonella in the two years before its eggs sickened more than 1,500 people, investigators said. Read more..

By GARDINER HARRIS and WILLIAM NEUMAN - The New York Times