April 8 (Reuters) - GLOBAL MARKETS ROUNDUP
* Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange (SES: S68.SI - news) fell 0.42 percent, while the MSCI (NYSE: MSCI - news) -Asia Pacific index excluding Japan was down 0.37 percent.
* The yen tumbled broadly and Japanese stocks soared on Monday, reflecting high expectations for the Bank of Japan's ambitious stimulus drive, but U.S. weak jobs data weighed on other assets.
* U.S. stocks ended their worst week this year with losses on Friday after a weaker-than-expected jobs report undermined confidence in the economy and first-quarter earnings growth.
FACTORS TO WATCH
* Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram meets bankers in Mumbai and investors in Chennai.
* The Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition by billionaire Sunil Mittal, chairman of the country's top mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel Ltd, seeking to overturn a lower court order that asked him to appear before the court in a spectrum allocation corruption case
* TVS Motor Co Ltd, India's fourth-biggest motorcycle company by sales holds a press conference in Chennai on Monday, where it is expected to announce a long awaited technology sharing agreement with the motorcycle division of Germany's BMW (Xetra: 519000 - news) . (1500 GMT)
* India central bank governor to meet economists, economic editors for a pre-policy consultation. (0630 GMT)
* Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BSE: BHEL.BO - news) , India's top power equipment maker, will post its provisional fourth quarter results. (0745 GMT)
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