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 | AFP - Wall Street heads into next week with strong tailwind from recent days\' rally and brighter outlook as traders keenly await President Barack Obama to unveil new plans for boosting the shaky US economy. |
| Turkey and the United States are ?not just allies? but ?good friends?, the US military?s top commander said after a visit to Ankara aimed at papering over the cracks in an increasingly fractious relationship |
| A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be ?very interested? in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India?s Kingfisher Airlines |
| AP - The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement in its civil lawsuit against former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio. |
| Stocks jumped and commodities rose on Friday after data showing fewer U.S. job losses than expected reinforced other reports this week to ease fears the American economy is on the cusp of a new recession. |
| The company faces the first broad antitrust probe of its core search business, in its latest fight to contain legal challenges prompted by its spreading influence on online life |
| Friedman Industries doubles its quarterly dividend to eight cents per share. |
| U.S. markets lift higher on positive manufacturing, consumer confidence and jobs reports. Burger King goes private again. |
| Also, Celldex Therapeutics plunges 30% to a new 52-week low after Pfizer pulls back from cancer vaccine project. |
| All the major indexes were solidly higher as investors drew optimism from a better than expected jobs report. |
| Lloyd?s of London is to test whether Apple iPads could replace the traditional paper slips containing all the information on bespoke policies sold at the 300-year-old insurance market |
| Staffing and outsourcing services stocks gain on Friday with luxury stocks. |
| Stocks jumped and commodities rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected in August, the second major report this week to ease fears the American economy may slip back into recession. |
| In 2002, Ben Bernanke deemed deflation such a threat that he referred to Milton Friedman?s notion of handing out cash to stop falling prices |
| In afternoon trading Friday, makers of diagnostic substances were trailing the overall market. |
| More market professionals are asking if the brutal de-rating suffered by equities during the past decade means the cult of equity is dying |
| Stocks jumped and commodities rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected in August, the second major report this week to ease fears the American economy may slip back into recession. |
| AP - SEPTEMBER RALLY: The stock market had its first winning week in a month after better news on employment and manufacturing lifted shares. |
| Finisar posts a 62% jump in revenue and the stock gets busy. |
| AP - The stock market had its first winning week in a month after news on the economy started getting better. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 128 points Friday, its fourth straight day of gains. Even after its four-day run, which added 438 points to the Dow, the index is still 6.8 percent below its April high. |
| Wall Street closed a stellar week on Friday after recent economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, bolstered optimism that the economy would not fall back into recession. |
| Also, aerospace outfit Esterline reports a 23% pop in profit |
| Omnicare takes Walgreen\'s long-term care pharmacy business, Walgreen gets Omnicare\'s home infusion business. |
| The broad S&P 500 index closed its best week in eight on Friday after recent economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, bolstered optimism that the economy would not fall back into recession. |
| The video game maker blows past analysts\' expectations and the stock surges. |
| Disney and Time Warner Cable strike a deal for ABC, ESPN, and Disney channels. |
| Also, Citigroup raises its price target on Burger King Holdings to $24, matching the buyout price. |
| Barclays lowers its price targets on shares of both Lexmark and Xerox. |
| Wall Street was set to close its best week in six on Friday after economic data, including a stronger-than-expected labor market report, helped soothe fears the economy could fall back into recession. |
| European shares hit a three-week closing high on Friday and posted their biggest weekly gain in about 8 weeks as investors grabbed equities after figures showed that U.S. employment declined far less than expected in August. |
| Stocks jumped and the dollar rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. job losses were less than expected in August, the second major report this week to ease fears the economy would slip back into recession. |
| The contrast between technologies at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin underline rapid advances set to revolutionise the humble ?box? that has sat in most living rooms since television became the focal point in family homes |
| Brazilian state oil company Petrobras on Friday filed to sell up to $64.5 billion of new stock -- the largest in capital markets history -- sending its stock sharply higher after months of uncertainty that dragged on its share price. |
| Petrobras, Brazil?s national oil company, is preparing to raise as much as R$55bn from minority shareholders in one of the biggest capital market transactions |
| Hewlett-Packard says its victory over Dell in the bidding war for storage technology company 3Par, should secure its lead over its rival in the important data storage segment |
| This piece from the Financial Times is about a month old; just have not had time to get around to writing the entry it deserves. It is a pretty comprehensive piece, and I always find it interesting to see views looking in on the U.S. from abroad. This should be nothing new to long. |
| The Chinese government has backed Sinochem, the state-owned chemicals giant, to pursue a counterbid that could trump BHP Billiton?s $39bn hostile offer for PotashCorp |
| Tax prep company H&R Block (HRB) posted a narrower loss in its fiscal first quarter, or $131 million, or $0. 41 per share, late yesterday, compared to a loss of $133. |
| US defence chief strikes an optimistic note on his trip to the spiritual homeland of the Taliban, the new front line in the war in Afghanistan, forecasting ?an inexorable process? in strategy over the next two to three years |
| Having persuaded many of their billionaire peers in the US into giving away chunks of money, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are travelling to China to host newly minted Chinese tycoons to sell them on the value of philanthropy |
| Wall Street was set to close out its best week in six on Friday after recent economic data, including a stronger-than-expected jobs report, showed the U.S. economy may be in better shape than thought. |
| Interestingly with so many stocks going from oversold to overbought in the span of 72 hours, F5 Networks (FFIV) is not among them. While it barely suffered a scratch during the selloff the past few weeks, it has not really advanced much either. Instead it has built a nice 5-6 week base b. |
| As better-than-expected economic data boosted investor morale this week, the greenback lost some of its luster, falling against a basket of currencies. |
| AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: |
| World stocks jumped on Friday while the low-yielding yen and government bonds tumbled after a closely-watched U.S. jobs report showed a smaller-than-expected decline in non-farm payrolls. |
| Wall Street advanced for a third day on Friday as the monthly payrolls data showed the U.S. economy may be in better shape than investors had thought and helped whet some investor appetite for risk. |
| Campbell Soup posted fourth quarter earnings today that topped analyst expectations. The company said profits totaled $113 million, or $0. |
| Tokyo has tightened its sanctions against Iran, banning new investment in energy development, restricting financial dealings and freezing the assets of people and institutions linked to Tehran?s ?nuclear activities? |
| Here are some replacement names for some of the long exposure I cut.First, a name we\'ve held many times the past 3 years Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa (GFA) [thanks to the reader who reminded me of it this morning]. Gafisa has been under pressure but Brazil\'s sizzling economy has put pressure o. |
| Goldcorp acquires all outstanding shares of Andean Resources, for a total value of $3.6 billion Canadian. |
