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• Wall Street flat as investors eye Libya, ECB rates (Reuters)
• Japan supply paralysis spreads as firms cut output (Reuters)
• Walgreen warns of government pushback on Medicaid (Reuters)
• Stopping next financial crisis a global effort: CFTC (Reuters)
• Dollar General beats, sees higher sales, profit (Reuters)
• An SEC Rule on Global Pay Could Embarrass Companies (BusinessWeek)
• California Republicans harden anti-tax stance (Reuters)
• Carnival 1Q net income falls on higher fuel prices (AP)
• Deutsche Bank loses suit over investor losses (AP)
• Treasurys fall on news of mortgage-bond sale (AP)
• Bear Stearns Alumni Are All Over Wall Street (BusinessWeek)
• Shareholders offer 16.5M Express shares (AP)
• Business Highlights (AP)
• Oil rises as Yemen unrest escalates, dollar falls (Reuters)
• Plane used by McCaskill to be sold, taxes paid (AP)
• Toyota, Honda further delay quake-hit production (AFP)
• Online Education, With a Low-Cost Twist (BusinessWeek)

Wall Street flat as investors eye Libya, ECB rates (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PDT Reuters - Wall Street was little changed on Tuesday as fighting in Libya and chances of a interest hike in Europe kept investors from making new bets on stocks.

Japan supply paralysis spreads as firms cut output (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 07:46 AM PDT Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) cut output at five more plants and Toyota Motor (7203.T) delayed restarting assembly lines, as the global supply of parts and products began to feel the full impact of Japan's catastrophic earthquake.

Walgreen warns of government pushback on Medicaid (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 07:23 AM PDT Reuters - Walgreen Co said it could face pressure from government agencies pushing back on how much they reimburse for the prescriptions it fills in a slowly recovering economy, and shares of the largest U.S. drugstore chain fell more than 8 percent.

Stopping next financial crisis a global effort: CFTC (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:31 AM PDT Reuters - Preventing another financial crisis similar to the one that shook the markets in 2008 requires a global effort and can not be done by one nation alone, the head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Tuesday.

Dollar General beats, sees higher sales, profit (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - Retailer Dollar General Corp reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit and said this year's results would probably top analysts' forecasts, sending its shares up nearly 3 percent.

An SEC Rule on Global Pay Could Embarrass Companies (BusinessWeek) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Every year an insurer called Protective Life crunches the numbers for its shareholders to show the cost of pensions promised to executives and derivative instruments used to hedge risk. The calculations are pretty complex. Yet when it comes to figuring out how the total compensation of its chief executive officer compares with the median pay of its employees, Protective wants to take a pass.

California Republicans harden anti-tax stance (Reuters) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:28 PM PDT Reuters - After approving spending cuts in California Governor Jerry Brown's budget plan last week, state lawmakers this week will try to tackle its most nettlesome proposal -- a ballot measure that would ask voters to extend some temporary tax increases.

Carnival 1Q net income falls on higher fuel prices (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 08:39 AM PDT AP - Higher-than-expected fuel prices pushed Carnival Corp.'s first-quarter profit down 13 percent, but the cruise operator managed to meet Wall Street's earnings expectations thanks to cutting other costs.

Deutsche Bank loses suit over investor losses (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 06:13 AM PDT AP - A German court ruled Tuesday that Deutsche Bank didn't sufficiently disclose the risks when selling one of its financial products to an investor.

Treasurys fall on news of mortgage-bond sale (AP) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 02:45 PM PDT AP - Treasurys slipped Monday after the government announced plans to start selling $142 billion in mortgage bonds and worries about Japan started to fade.

Bear Stearns Alumni Are All Over Wall Street (BusinessWeek) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Three years after the collapse of Bear Stearns, which helped fuel the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, former executives of the firm are running bond businesses at onetime rivals, including Bank of America and Goldman Sachs . Alumni of Bear Stearns, which has been accused in lawsuits of misrepresenting the mortgages included in bonds, have contributed to a Wall Street rebound. Profits at broker-dealers totaled $89 billion in 2009 and 2010, the best two years on record, according to New York State's comptroller.

Shareholders offer 16.5M Express shares (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 08:46 AM PDT AP - Express' largest shareholder and others plan to sell 16.5 million shares of the fashion retailer in a public offering.

Business Highlights (AP) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:12 PM PDT AP - Home sales fell 9.6 pct. in February

Oil rises as Yemen unrest escalates, dollar falls (Reuters) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 08:28 AM PDT Reuters - Oil rose on Tuesday, reversing earlier losses, as unrest in Yemen threatened to further crimp energy exports from the Gulf region and the U.S. dollar weakened to a 15-year low on recovering risk appetite among investors.

Plane used by McCaskill to be sold, taxes paid (AP) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 07:03 PM PDT AP - A company partly owned by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and her husband has agreed to sell a small airplane that she used for official business and pay more than $287,000 in overdue property taxes, the senator said Monday.

Toyota, Honda further delay quake-hit production (AFP) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 06:53 AM PDT AFP - Automakers Honda and Toyota on Tuesday said they have delayed plans to restart assembly in Japan because of a shortage of necessary parts, with supply chains hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami.

Online Education, With a Low-Cost Twist (BusinessWeek) Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - As a military wife, Michelle Mills got used to the itinerant lifestyle but could never quite accept the fact that she hadn't finished her college degree. Over the past decade or so, Mills, a 34-year-old mother of two, sank $30,000 into college coursework, earning more than 100 credits at three different colleges as she followed her husband, an Air Force fighter pilot, to military outposts in such places as South Korea, North Carolina, and Nevada.

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