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Consumer Borrowing Increases in March (AP)
AP - Americans increased their borrowing for auto loans and other types of consumer debt at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in March, the smallest gain in four months, the Federal Reserve ...
Employers Hire More, Jobless Rate Steady (AP)
AP - Employers ramped up hiring in April, adding 274,000 jobs, enough to hold the nation's jobless rate steady at 5.2 percent. The latest figures offered a hopeful sign that the labor ...
Treasuries sink after strong jobs report (Reuters)
Reuters - Treasury debt prices sank on Friday
after an unambiguously strong U.S. jobs report scotched talk of
an economic soft patch and even revived speculation the Federal
Reserve might ...
Payrolls grow much more than expected (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. employers added a surprisingly
large 274,000 jobs in April and payrolls grew in each of the
two prior months more than first estimated, the Labor
Department said on Friday in ...
Ousted AIG chief in stock probe -report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, ousted head of insurance giant American International Group
Unilever profits up, shares on recovery
LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever Plc/NV
Stocks higher after strong April payrolls
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Friday after government data showed U.S. employers created a surprisingly large 274,000 new jobs in April and added more workers in each of the ...
Albertsons reorganizes key operations (Reuters)
Reuters - Albertsons Inc., the No. 2 U.S.
grocery chain, on Friday said it was reorganizing its supply
chain and food operations, as U.S. supermarkets face greater
competition from ...
Money Funds Fall by $5.87 Billion (AP)
AP - Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell by $5.87 billion in the latest week to $805.96 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
Mercedes sales rise 2 pct in April (Reuters)
Reuters - Sales at DaimlerChrysler's premium
Mercedes Car Group rose 2 percent in April to 104,900 units,
helped by the first monthly rise in deliveries of its core
Mercedes-Benz brand ...
Unilever Q1 earnings jump 25 percent (Reuters)
Reuters - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant
Unilever Plc/NV beat forecasts with a 25 percent jump in
first-quarter earnings, and further signs of a turnaround from
a disastrous 2004 pushed ...
Stocks seen higher on strong payrolls (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. stock futures rose on Friday
after government data showed April nonfarm payrolls grew by
274,000, with economists expecting 170,000, easing investor
concerns of slowing ...
GE restates some earnings going back to 2001 (Reuters)
Reuters - General Electric Co. on Friday said it
was restating earnings for the years 2002 through 2004 after an
internal audit found that its accounting for certain hedging
transactions ...
Jobs growth surprisingly robust in April (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. employers created a
surprisingly large 274,000 new jobs in April and added more
workers in each of the two prior months than first thought, the
Labor Department said on ...
Dollar surges on robust April jobs report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar surged on Friday after the influential April jobs report signaled the U.S. labor market was stronger than expected.
Ousted AIG chief in stock manipulation probe -paper
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, ousted head of insurance giant American International Group, tried to manipulate the ...
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