Sunday, October 31, 2010

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Stocks' week of reckoning arrives (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:58 AM PDT

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, October 14, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - The wait is almost over.

BHP Billiton plans to sweeten Potash bid: report (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:42 AM PDT

A worker at the Mosiac Belle Plaine potash mine walks past part of the site which is undergoing major expansion in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan September 29, 2010. REUTERS/David StobbeReuters - BHP Billiton is planning to raise its $39 billion hostile bid for Canada's Potash Corp , the world's largest fertilizer supplier, the Sunday Times reported, citing sources close to the situation.

Cablevision and Fox reach programming deal (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Cablevision Systems Corp and News Corp have a reached a programing deal which sees the return of the Fox local stations to more than three million New York area homes after a 15-day blackout.

Tribune creditors file three reorganization plans (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 08:18 PM PDT

Reuters - Three different groups of creditors to Tribune Co filed rival proposals for ending the newspaper publisher's near two-year stay in bankruptcy.

UK and Germany seek ways to boost global trade (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain, Germany, Indonesia and Turkey are setting up an experts' group to suggest ways to boost global trade, Britain and Germany said on Sunday.

Le Gaga rises in its 1st day of Nasdaq trading (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:49 AM PDT

AP - Shares of Le Gaga Holdings Inc. rose about 5 percent in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq Global Market Friday.

U.S. Economy Grew At 2% Rate In Q3, Consumers Step Up (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - The world's largest economy expanded at a lackluster 2% annual rate in the July-September period, the government said Friday, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will take further steps this week to spur growth.

India Reliance Industries quarterly profit jumps 28 percent (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:34 AM PDT

The chairman of India's largest private sector firm, Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani is pictured in June 2010. India's largest private sector firm Reliance Industries reported a 28 percent rise in quarterly net profit Saturday, boosted by earnings from refining crude and higher gas output.(AFP/File/Punit Paranjpe)AFP - India's largest private sector firm Reliance Industries reported a 28 percent rise in quarterly net profit Saturday, boosted by earnings from refining crude and higher gas output.

WTO chief says 'worried' by currency interventions (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:33 AM PDT

World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy, pictured, has expressed his concern over unilateral interventions on currency markets, amid tensions between China and the United States over a so-called currency war.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - The head of the World Trade Organisation on Sunday expressed his concern over unilateral interventions on currency markets, amid tensions between China and the United States over a so-called currency war.

Oil price 'very comfortable': Kuwait (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:02 AM PDT

A man refuels his car at a petrol station. The price of oil is AFP - Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah al-Sabah said on Sunday the price of oil is "very comfortable" despite crude having slid below 82 dollars a barrel.

Deal or punt decision on Bush tax cuts is Obama's (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 4, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama makes a statement on tax reform with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington. Whether Congress extends former President George W. Bush's tax cuts into 2011 in the weeks after Tuesday's mid-term election or lets the automatic increase start cutting into most people's paychecks early next year is pretty much up to Obama. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Will Congress extend the Bush tax cuts into 2011 in the weeks after Tuesday's election or let the automatic increase start cutting into most people's paychecks early next year?

Special Report: For GM IPO, the government is back-seat driver (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:09 AM PDT

General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre talks about the first assembled lithium-ion battery for the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle during a news conference in Brownstown Township, Michigan January 7, 2010. REUTERS/Rebecca CookReuters - Steve Girsky remembers sitting at his kitchen table in New York on the eve of President Barack Obama's election when he realized that General Motors was going to run out of cash.
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