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• Largecap tech shares, materials boost Wall Street (Reuters)
• Treasury's toxic asset funds gain 27 percent (Reuters)
• Intel raises dividend, expands stock buyback (Reuters)
• McDonald's sees costs climbing; shares down (Reuters)
• Halliburton tops forecast on North American sales (Reuters)
• Summary Box: GE sends industrial stocks higher (AP)
• Fed to go easy on applause (Reuters)
• Halliburton more than doubles 4Q profit (AP)
• At Davos, a litany of problems awaits leaders (AP)
• Supermarket Surprise: Smaller Servings, Same Price (The Motley Fool)
• Ireland's political parties hold crisis talks (AFP)
• RadioShack CEO Julian Day retiring (AP)
• Judges to weigh mortgage document destruction (Reuters)
• Oil prices fall as Saudis hint at raising supplies (AP)
• WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest (Reuters)
• GM's China sales pass US for first time in history (AP)

Largecap tech shares, materials boost Wall Street (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:53 AM PST Reuters - Stocks rose in early Monday trading, lifted by natural resource shares on bets on global growth and a buyback plan at Intel that focused investor attention on the largecap technology sector.

Treasury's toxic asset funds gain 27 percent (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 09:12 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. Treasury's toxic asset funds have gained 27 percent since they were created to help revive the mortgage-backed securities market, according to data expected to be released later on Monday.

Intel raises dividend, expands stock buyback (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 06:57 AM PST Reuters - Intel Corp raised its dividend by 15 percent and authorized another $10 billion in its share buyback program after posting solid results earlier this month.

McDonald's sees costs climbing; shares down (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST Reuters - McDonald's Corp forecast higher food costs for 2011 and reported weaker-than-expected December sales at established European and U.S. restaurants as poor weather hurt demand.

Halliburton tops forecast on North American sales (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:27 AM PST Reuters - Oilfield service company Halliburton Co posted higher-than-expected profits, boosted by oil projects in North America, and forecast steady growth elsewhere even if pricing competition is tough.

Summary Box: GE sends industrial stocks higher (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:49 PM PST AP - GE BUMP: General Electric Co. gained 7.1 percent, leading the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average. The conglomerate's earnings rose 52 percent on growth in equipment orders and lending.

Fed to go easy on applause (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 12:01 PM PST Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may have to muffle his applause for the sturdier U.S. economic recovery.

Halliburton more than doubles 4Q profit (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:02 AM PST AP - Halliburton Co. said net income more than doubled in the fourth quarter as oil drilling activity remained strong away from the Gulf of Mexico.

At Davos, a litany of problems awaits leaders (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:17 AM PST AP - The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum gets under way this week under a cloud of economic worries, concern over China's growing influence in politics and business, and simmering anxieties over the European debt crisis.

Supermarket Surprise: Smaller Servings, Same Price (The Motley Fool) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:39 AM PST The Motley Fool - Out of toilet paper so soon? Who the heck ate all of the Haagen Dazs? Why is this grilled cheese sandwich less cheesy than before?

Ireland's political parties hold crisis talks (AFP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:50 AM PST AFP - Ireland's crumbling government held crisis talks with opposition parties on Monday over their demands to bring elections forward to February and fast-track a finance bill to secure an EU-IMF bailout.

RadioShack CEO Julian Day retiring (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:39 AM PST AP - RadioShack said Monday its chairman and CEO Julian Day is leaving and announced disappointing fourth-quarter guidance that sent shares down 12 percent in midday trading.

Judges to weigh mortgage document destruction (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 05:07 AM PST Reuters - Federal bankruptcy judges in Delaware are due to hold separate hearings Monday on requests by two defunct subprime mortgage lenders to destroy thousands of boxes of original loan documents.

Oil prices fall as Saudis hint at raising supplies (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:21 AM PST AP - The price of oil fell on Monday after the Saudi oil minister hinted that his country, the world's biggest oil producer, may raise supplies to put the brakes on higher oil prices.

WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 06:13 AM PST Reuters - The founder of whistleblower site WikiLeaks attacked Switzerland on Sunday for arresting a Swiss banker on suspicion of breaching banking secrecy instead of investigating the tax evasion he said he had uncovered.

GM's China sales pass US for first time in history (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2011 06:29 AM PST AP - General Motors Co. sold more cars and trucks in China last year than it did in the U.S., for the first time in the company's 102-year history.

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