AP - Investors hope to gain some clarity on the future of consumer electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. at its annual shareholder meeting Tuesday.
Reuters - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index
fell more than 200 points on Friday as financial issues were
hurt by inflation fears and worries over more U.S.
mortgage-related problems, while consumer stocks also fell.
Reuters - U.S. fertilizer producer and oilseed
processor Bunge Ltd has agreed to buy Corn Products
International Inc for $4.4 billion in stock, The Wall
Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with
the matter.
Reuters - Record foreclosures and limited access
to credit will make it harder than usual to rebound from this
U.S. housing market slump, the worst at least since World War
Two, according to a Harvard University study on Monday.
Reuters - Altria Group Inc's Philip
Morris USA has cancelled its Marlboro Ultra Smooth cigarettes,
highlighting challenges it faces in trying to grow its tobacco
business despite a decline in U.S. cigarette sales, The Wall
Street Journal reported on Monday.
Reuters - Google Inc's famous employee perks --
from providing "nap pods" for a quick break during the day to
allowing engineers to spend 20 percent of their work time on
side projects that may spark new ideas -- have given the
Internet leader the best reputation in corporate America,
according to a study released on Monday.
Reuters - U.S. oil services firm Halliburton said
it has ended talks to buy UK rival Expro after its
target refused to open an auction and opted for a 1.8 billion
pound ($3.5 billion) rival bid. -- read full article
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Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected
to hold interest rates steady at a meeting this week and
suggest it is in no rush to raise them, even as it acknowledges
some troubling signs on the inflation front.
Reuters - World energy powers
embarked on a new level of dialogue to try to rein in runaway
oil prices at an emergency meeting in this Red Sea city, but
were unable to come up with a quick fix.
Reuters - Years ago, when the first Armani
boutiques opened in China, a furious customer walked into one
of the shops, brandishing two Armani T-shirts.
Reuters - Andrew D. Busch, a nonemployee member
of Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc's founding Busch family, said
on Saturday that he supports the U.S. brewer's efforts to
remain "a strong company headquartered in St. Louis."
Reuters - The world's top energy
policy makers meet in this Red Sea city on Sunday for emergency
talks on halting oil's unrelenting rally, but divided views
over the cause of recent gains emerged early.
Reuters - British bank Lloyds TSB would
consider a significant acquisition and is looking at a possible
deal in Germany, people familiar with the situation said on
Saturday.
Reuters - OPEC members with any
capacity to spare will discuss boosting output together with
top oil exporter Saudi Arabia at an emergency meeting to try to
tame record oil, a senior Gulf OPEC official said on Saturday.