Monday, April 11, 2011

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Wall St higher on earnings optimism, Alcoa gains (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Stocks rose on Monday as investors bet on a strong corporate earnings season, which Alcoa Inc unofficially launches after the market's close.

Adventurer Murray says tapped for Glencore (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Simon Murray is seen at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, in this May 23, 2007 file photo. Murray, the South Pole adventurer and former Vodafone Group Plc board member, told Reuters on Monday that he's in the running for the chairman role at Glencore International AG the commodities trading giant planning a roughly $10 billion dual listing in London and Hong Kong. REUTERS/Mike StoneReuters - Simon Murray, the South Pole adventurer and former Vodafone board member, is in the running for the role of chairman at Glencore, the commodities giant set to detail plans for a $10 billion-plus listing later this week.

IMF says sluggish U.S. growth requires easy money policy (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:28 AM PDT

Job seekers prepare for a career fair to open at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 6, 2011. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - The U.S. economy is recovering at such a sluggish pace that the Federal Reserve needs to keep an easy monetary policy in place while the government comes to grip with its debts, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

Rajaratnam defense targets witness credibility (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:32 AM PDT

Reuters - Lawyers for Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam called two witnesses at his insider trading trial on Monday in an effort to undermine the credibility of a former employee who testified against him.

D.Boerse has no plans to raise NYSE offer: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Traders at their desks in front of the DAX board at the Frankfurt stock exchange, February 15, 2011. REUTERS/Alex DomanskiReuters - Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE) has no plans to raise its offer for NYSE Euronext , two people familiar with the company's thinking said on Monday.

High hopes for first-quarter earnings reports (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT

AP - Look for a lot of winners when companies report their first-quarter earnings.

BOJ Shirakawa says recovery path intact, regional (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa on Monday reiterated that Japan's economy is likely to return to a recovery path once supply constraints caused by last month's earthquake and tsunami ease, and as exports grow.

Political fights could unravel Portugal's bailout (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:11 AM PDT

Portugal's Prime-Minister and Socialist Party leader Jose Socrates delivers a speech in Matosinhos, on the outskirts of Porto, Portugal, Sunday, April 10, 2011 during the closing ceremony of the party's national congress. Socrates resigned late last month after opposition parties rejected unpopular spending cuts and tax increases that the government said were necessary to get the country's struggling economy back on track. On Friday, EU finance ministers agreed to grant financial help to Portugal once the debt-ridden country has signed on to a radical overhaul of its economy. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)AP - Portugal's massive rescue package was threatened on two sides Monday — by internal political squabbling and external bailout fatigue among EU neighbors — and it was not clear whether the proposed deal would last.

How to Save for Retirement on a Low Income (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:25 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Saving for retirement is especially difficult for workers with small salaries. Many low-income workers don't have access to a retirement account at work and simply have less money to build a nest egg after paying their monthly bills. Here are some strategies to save for the future on a small wage:

Oil falls as hopes grow for Libyan cease-fire (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 4, 2011 file photo shows environmental activist Alex Moore, left, joining protestors gathered across the White House in Washington, during a rally against the 1,900-mile oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands which would stretch through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to Texas. A proposed tar sands mine on Utah's eastern Uinta basin, that would be the first commercial project of its kind in the U.S. has environmentalists concerned that shortsightedness may trump reason. A Canadian company aims to mine roughly 62 acres on the Uinta basin to produce bitumen, a tar-like form of petroleum, from oil-soaked sands. For decades, other Utah operators have used oil sands as a poor-man's asphalt, and Canada has been wringing oil from the dirt for years, but nobody has yet tried to produce petroleum from U.S. soil on such a large scale. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Oil fell Monday as Libya's Moammar Gadhafi appeared to accept a cease-fire plan with rebel forces, increasing the chances that Libyan crude ill return to world markets soon.

British banks 'need to ringfence retail operations' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 04:40 AM PDT

A picture taken in 2008 shows London's finance district at Canary Wharf. British banks should ringfence their retail operations from investment bank activities, the Independent Commission on Banking has said in a report launched after the global financial crisis.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Britain's banks need to ringfence their retail operations from investment bank activities, the Independent Commission on Banking urged Monday in a report aimed at preventing more state bailouts.

IMF says world growth not enough to create jobs (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:27 AM PDT

A man has his lunch at a noodle restaurant in Beijing on Monday. The International Monetary Fund predicts economic growth of 9.6 percent in China this year, the fastest of any major country.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - The global economy is firmly on the mend in 2011 but downside risks are on the rise, particularly from surging oil prices, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.

Fiat: to raise Chrysler stake in days (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2011 file photo, Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne is seen at a news conference at the Windsor Assembly Plant in Windsor, Ontario. Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday, April 11, 2011, that the Italian automaker will increase its stake in Chrysler by 5 percent within days.(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)AP - Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday that the Italian automaker will increase its stake in Chrysler by 5 percent within days.
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