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• Wall Street hits session highs (Reuters)
• Durable goods orders fall, job market healing (Reuters)
• ECB talks rate hikes, braces as Portugal crisis deepens (Reuters)
• Smartphones help Best Buy's Q4; analysts cautious (Reuters)
• Warren Buffett says collapse of euro not unthinkable: TV (Reuters)
• European stocks climb before UK budget (AFP)
• February durable goods orders fall 0.9 percent (Reuters)
• ConAgra Foods 3Q net income drops on rising costs (AP)
• Irish economy slumps, stoking eurozone tensions (AFP)
• Summary Box: Fixed mortgage rates rise this week (AP)
• Portugal edges toward bailout after govt quits (AP)
• Walgreen to spend about $429M for drugstore.com (AP)
• Mortgage rates for the past 52 weeks at a glance (AP)
• Oil down $1 to $114.50 after U.S. data (Reuters)
• WPP eyes return to Britain as government cuts tax (AFP)
• Union expects GM to bring back laid-off workers (AP)
• Rebuilding Japan, Without the Graft (BusinessWeek)

Wall Street hits session highs (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PDT Reuters - Stocks hit session highs and the Nasdaq rose more than 1 percent on Thursday, helped by strong gains in technology and consumer discretionary shares.

Durable goods orders fall, job market healing (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:13 AM PDT Reuters - New orders for long-lasting manufactured goods fell in February, hinting at some unexpected softness in manufacturing activity and business investment plans.

ECB talks rate hikes, braces as Portugal crisis deepens (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:35 AM PDT Reuters - European Central Bank policymakers underscored the case for an April rate hike on Thursday as Portugal's political crisis raised the prospect of another spell of reluctant ECB bond market intervention.

Smartphones help Best Buy's Q4; analysts cautious (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:53 AM PDT Reuters - Best Buy Co Inc beat quarterly profit estimates as strength in its mobile business offset weak demand for televisions and entertainment software in the all-important holiday season.

Warren Buffett says collapse of euro not unthinkable: TV (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - A collapse of the euro currency was not "unthinkable" if it comes under too much strain, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Thursday.

European stocks climb before UK budget (AFP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:43 AM PDT AFP - European stock markets rose in morning deals on Wednesday, as investors in London awaited Britain's annual budget and German reinsurers estimated their losses from the Japanese earthquake.

February durable goods orders fall 0.9 percent (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:44 AM PDT Reuters - New orders for long-lasting manufactured goods unexpectedly fell in February after a strong showing in January, a government report showed on Thursday, hinting at decelerating manufacturing activity.

ConAgra Foods 3Q net income drops on rising costs (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:06 AM PDT AP - Escalating costs helped push ConAgra Foods Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter net income down 6 percent, but the maker of Healthy Choice and Chef Boyardee absorbed some of the impact through increased prices.

Irish economy slumps, stoking eurozone tensions (AFP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:53 AM PDT AFP - Ireland's economy shrank in the fourth quarter of 2010, data showed Thursday, sparking new tensions over the eurozone debt crisis amid fears that Portugal could be next for an EU-IMF bailout.

Summary Box: Fixed mortgage rates rise this week (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:18 AM PDT AP - RATES EDGE UP: Freddie Mac said the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week to 4.81 percent from 4.76 percent the previous week. The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage increased to 4.04 percent from 3.97 percent.

Portugal edges toward bailout after govt quits (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:25 AM PDT AP - Portugal's financial collapse appeared inevitable on Thursday, as markets took the government's resignation as proof the debt-heavy country will lose its year-long battle to avoid a bailout.

Walgreen to spend about $429M for drugstore.com (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:53 AM PDT AP - Drugstore operator Walgreen Co. said Thursday it will spend about $429 million to buy online retailer drugstore.com in a deal that gives it access to 3 million online customers.

Mortgage rates for the past 52 weeks at a glance (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:14 AM PDT AP - Mortgage rates for the past 52 weeks at a glance

Oil down $1 to $114.50 after U.S. data (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:54 AM PDT Reuters - Brent crude fell over $1 on Thursday after mixed U.S. data, against a backdrop of instability in the Middle East and new eurozone debt worries following the resignation of Portugal's prime minister.

WPP eyes return to Britain as government cuts tax (AFP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:58 AM PDT AFP - WPP, the world's largest advertiser, could move its headquarters back to Britain after the government cut tax on company profits in its annual budget, its chief executive Martin Sorrell said Thursday.

Union expects GM to bring back laid-off workers (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:05 AM PDT AP - The United Auto Workers union says General Motors Co. plans to recall the last 2,000 of its laid-off workers by this fall, clearing the way for new hiring at its U.S. plants.

Rebuilding Japan, Without the Graft (BusinessWeek) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - At the end of World War II, the Japanese had a saying that, thanks to American bombers, a person could roll a bowling ball from Tokyo all the way to Yokohama. The half-century that followed was an almost uninterrupted construction binge. Japanese firms built factories and office buildings, apartment blocks and highways, dams and bridges, bullet trains and airports -- the links in the nation's vast, intricate, just-in-time supply chains. The outside world thinks of Japan's rise from smoldering wreck to the world's second-largest economy as being built on cars and electronics. ...

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