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• Wall St rises after payrolls data (Reuters)
• Private hiring surprises with 67,000 new jobs (Reuters)
• Campbell Soup profit beats Street but sales light (Reuters)
• Obama says to address new economic ideas next week (Reuters)
• Walgreen same-store sales miss expectations (Reuters)
• Ex-hedge fund manager charged with insider trading (Reuters)
• White House: August jobs report reassuring (Reuters)
• Summary Box: Campbell Soup 4th-qtr results (AP)
• Experts see trouble ahead for developed world (AP)
• Sirius XM Has a Stern Decision to Make (The Motley Fool)
• Asia leads world tourism recovery in 2010: UN (AFP)
• Billionaire investor seals deal to buy German retail chain (AFP)
• Con man could get life under Calif. 3-strikes law (AP)
• Crews prepare to raise failed blowout preventer (AP)
• 3 Ways Obama Could Boost Hiring (U.S. News & World Report)
• S.Korea's Kia to recall 35,000 cars in US (AFP)
• Crafting a Career in Eco-Chic Jewelry (BusinessWeek)

Wall St rises after payrolls data (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - Wall Street advanced on Friday after a better-than-expected jobs report lifted investor optimism on the economy but gains were checked after data showed services sector activity slowed.

Private hiring surprises with 67,000 new jobs (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected and private hiring surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up economic growth.

Campbell Soup profit beats Street but sales light (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:45 AM PDT Reuters - Campbell Soup Co posted lower-than-expected quarterly sales and forecast sales growth for the new fiscal year below its long-term target as the world's largest soup company grapples with a weak economy.

Obama says to address new economic ideas next week (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:53 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday said he would address a package of new measures next week to boost U.S. growth and hiring as he greeted the August job report as positive news.

Walgreen same-store sales miss expectations (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 06:15 AM PDT Reuters - Walgreen Co posted weaker-than-expected August sales at stores open more than a year, hurt by generic drug introductions and a decrease in customer traffic.

Ex-hedge fund manager charged with insider trading (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2010 10:15 AM PDT Reuters - A former hedge fund manager has been accused by a U.S. regulator of illegal insider trading in MedImmune Inc securities prior to the acquisition of the pharmaceutical company by Britain's AstraZeneca Plc.

White House: August jobs report reassuring (Reuters) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:18 AM PDT Reuters - The White House on Friday greeted a better than expected August employment report as reassuring news after a recent spate of "unsettling" economic data, and reiterated it was working with Congress to take additional steps to boost U.S. growth and hiring.

Summary Box: Campbell Soup 4th-qtr results (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:56 AM PDT AP - SALES DOWN, PROFIT UP: The Campbell Soup Co. said Friday that its adjusted fourth-quarter profit was up 7 percent, even though its sales were down 1 percent.

Experts see trouble ahead for developed world (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:56 AM PDT AP - Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook — especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.

Sirius XM Has a Stern Decision to Make (The Motley Fool) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:43 AM PDT The Motley Fool - Satellite-radio star Howard Stern is negotiating in public again.

Asia leads world tourism recovery in 2010: UN (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:30 AM PDT AFP - World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia and the Middle East, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said Friday.

Billionaire investor seals deal to buy German retail chain (AFP) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 07:14 AM PDT AFP - The future of Germany's Karstadt, Europe's third-largest department store chain, appeared to be secured Friday as a court approved its acquisition by a billionaire investor, safeguarding 25,000 jobs.

Con man could get life under Calif. 3-strikes law (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2010 02:26 PM PDT AP - A man accused of bilking elderly South Los Angeles residents out of their homes in a foreclosure scam is facing a potential life sentence in a rare use of California's three-strikes law for a white-collar crime.

Crews prepare to raise failed blowout preventer (AP) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:52 AM PDT AP - A vessel has latched onto a key piece of evidence in the oil spill investigation so crews can raise the 300-ton device to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

3 Ways Obama Could Boost Hiring (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:04 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Nearly three years after the recession began, President Obama wants to pass a jobs bill. It's not his first jobs bill, but the others--including the big $800 stimulus plan from 2009--haven't quite done the trick. So Obama is pushing for new tax breaks and cheap, government-backed loans for small businesses, with the hope that easier credit and a bit more take-home pay will spur them to hire more workers.

S.Korea's Kia to recall 35,000 cars in US (AFP) Posted: 02 Sep 2010 07:00 PM PDT AFP - South Korea's second largest carmaker Kia Motors said Friday it is recalling about 35,000 vehicles sold in the United States due to faulty wiring in interior lights that could cause fires.

Crafting a Career in Eco-Chic Jewelry (BusinessWeek) Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Goldman Sachs may not have a lot of friends in the White House these days, but one of its former employees has made a good impression. After three years as an analyst in Goldman's fixed-income, currencies, and commodities division, Monique Pean began her own jewelry line that can now be found in Barneys, Jeffrey New York, and around the neck of Michelle Obama.

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