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• Wall St opens flat after jobless claims data (Reuters)
• Jobless claims fall, labor market tone better (Reuters)
• Ex-Berkshire exec Sokol: I did nothing wrong (Reuters)
• AIG reorganizes its biggest unit (Reuters)
• Fed, forced by court, releases lending details (Reuters)
• SEC mulls rules on compensation committees (Reuters)
• US, France call for flexible exchange rates at G20 (AFP)
• Anglo Irish Bank confirms $25 billion 2010 loss (AP)
• German unemployment falls further in March (AFP)
• Rate on 30-year fixed mortgage rises to 4.86 pct. (AP)
• Portugal deficit rises, worsening debt woes (AP)
• H&M Q1 profit drops 30 pct on high cotton prices (AP)
• UK builder Taylor Wimpey exiting North America (AP)
• Brent heads for biggest quarterly gain in almost 2 years (Reuters)
• Japan extra budgets may top $120 billion (Reuters)
• Honda, Mazda to restart limited car production (AP)

Wall St opens flat after jobless claims data (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:41 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. stocks were little changed after the open on Thursday after new U.S. claims for jobless benefits fell less then expected last week.

Jobless claims fall, labor market tone better (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:00 AM PDT Reuters - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, a government report showed on Thursday, further evidence a material improvement in the labor market was under way.

Ex-Berkshire exec Sokol: I did nothing wrong (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:42 AM PDT Reuters - Former Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N) (BRKb.N) executive David Sokol on Thursday said he has invested in companies he then recommended for acquisition in the past, a day after Berkshire disclosed Sokol pushed Lubrizol Corp to Warren Buffett after investing in it.

AIG reorganizes its biggest unit (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:30 AM PDT Reuters - American International Group reorganized its largest unit, its Chartis property and casualty insurance division, and named Peter Hancock as chief executive of the unit, it said on Thursday.

Fed, forced by court, releases lending details (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:04 AM PDT Reuters - The Federal Reserve on Thursday released the names of banks that borrowed from its main emergency lending facility during the financial crisis after having run out of legal appeals to block publication.

SEC mulls rules on compensation committees (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:08 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. securities regulators proposed rules on Wednesday that would require publicly listed companies to have independent compensation committees and make key disclosures about their use of compensation consultants.

US, France call for flexible exchange rates at G20 (AFP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:50 AM PDT AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday called for more flexible exchange rate regimes as G20 nations met on global monetary reform in China.

Anglo Irish Bank confirms $25 billion 2010 loss (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:04 AM PDT AP - Anglo Irish Bank, the dying institution at the heart of Ireland's journey to near bankruptcy, confirmed Thursday an Irish-record 2010 net loss of euro17.7 billion ($25 billion) because of property development loans gone bad.

German unemployment falls further in March (AFP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PDT AFP - The German unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent in March as the number of people out of work declined to 3.21 million, the national labour office said on Tuesday.

Rate on 30-year fixed mortgage rises to 4.86 pct. (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:01 AM PDT AP - Fixed mortgage rates rose slightly this week, but the average rate on the 30-year loan remained below 5 percent.

Portugal deficit rises, worsening debt woes (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:45 AM PDT AP - Portugal's National Statistics Institute estimates the debt-stressed country's national budget deficit last year was 8.6 percent — way above the government's target of 7.3 percent.

H&M Q1 profit drops 30 pct on high cotton prices (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:01 AM PDT AP - Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB said Thursday that its profit fell 30 percent in the first quarter of the year as a result of higher cotton prices and negative currency exchange effects.

UK builder Taylor Wimpey exiting North America (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:30 AM PDT AP - U.K. home builder Taylor Wimpey is selling its North American business to an investment partnership for $955 million.

Brent heads for biggest quarterly gain in almost 2 years (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT Reuters - Brent crude rose over $1 on Thursday to $116.78 a barrel, heading for its biggest quarterly gain in almost two years as Middle East supply worries led concerns.

Japan extra budgets may top $120 billion (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:22 AM PDT Reuters - Japan's government may need to spend over 10 trillion yen ($120 billion) in emergency budgets for post-quake disaster relief and reconstruction, with part of them possibly covered by new taxes, deputy finance minister Mitsuru Sakurai signaled on Thursday.

Honda, Mazda to restart limited car production (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:55 AM PDT AP - Honda and Mazda say they will resume limited production at several Japanese factories in early April, but full production depends on the flow of parts.

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