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• Ireland wants bank bondholders to share the pain (Reuters)
• Would make sense for Portugal to seek aid: Nowotny (Reuters)
• Hot sectors, jobs on investors' radar (Reuters)
• ICI: Stock Fund Expenses on the Decline (U.S. News & World Report)
• Summary Box: Gold, silver fall after economic news (AP)
• Brown urges G-20 to seal 'global growth pact' (AP)
• New York Times Gives False Information on General Electric's Zero Income Tax Bill (ContributorNetwork)
• China's Sinopec profit up 14% on oil price rise (AFP)
• Ford to idle Belgian plant for 5 days (AP)

Ireland wants bank bondholders to share the pain (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:33 AM PDT Reuters - Ireland's government wants to impose losses on some senior bondholders in Irish lenders to reduce the burden on taxpayers from a prolonged banking crisis, a senior minister said on Sunday.

Would make sense for Portugal to seek aid: Nowotny (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:40 AM PDT Reuters - It would make sense for Portugal to seek aid from the European Union bailout fund, although such a decision will be caught up in domestic politics, European Central Bank Governing Board member Ewald Nowotny said.

Hot sectors, jobs on investors' radar (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. stock investors could scramble to pick up some of the market's recent best performers this week as the quarter comes to an end, putting the spotlight on energy and industrial companies.

ICI: Stock Fund Expenses on the Decline (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:48 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Good news for fund investors: Annual fees for stock funds are falling, according to a new study from the Investment Company Institute (ICI). In 2010, the average expense ratio for stock funds fell two basis points from a year earlier to 0.84 percent, while the average expense ratio for bond funds stayed flat at 0.64 percent.

Summary Box: Gold, silver fall after economic news (AP) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PDT AP - GOLD, SILVER FADE: Gold and silver prices fell Friday after the government said the economy grew faster than many economists predicted at the end of last year. That sent investors searching for riskier assets.

Brown urges G-20 to seal 'global growth pact' (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:37 PM PDT AP - Less than a week ahead of a meeting of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations in China, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged the world's most powerful economies to seal a "global growth pact" to fight unemployment.

New York Times Gives False Information on General Electric's Zero Income Tax Bill (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 26 Mar 2011 03:47 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It is hard to imagine that General Electric (GE), whose nuclear plants have been in the spotlight since the recent Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami, would have anything positive to say about that natural disaster, but the media uproar that followed it meant that the world's newspapers were distracted from the multinational corporation's recent SEC filing.

China's Sinopec profit up 14% on oil price rise (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:55 AM PDT AFP - China's Sinopec said Sunday its 2010 net profit rose nearly 14 percent on higher oil prices and strong domestic demand for refined oil and chemical products.

Ford to idle Belgian plant for 5 days (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:53 PM PDT AP - Ford Motor Co. said Saturday it will idle an auto plant in Belgium for five days, trying to conserve supplies of Japanese parts that could run low following an earthquake and tsunami.

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