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Most Asian Shares Up; Oil Tempers Demand
Asian stock markets were mostly higher as many investors took the opportunity to buy into beaten down stocks, but the turmoil in the Middle East and the surge in oil prices continued to temper demand. The Nikkei was up 0.4%.
- U.S. Stocks Finish Higher

Stocks Finish Higher
U.S. stocks ended a touch higher after the previous session's sharp selloff, even as crude oil rose above $100 a barrel and gold rose to a new record.

For Muni-Bond Market, Calm After Storm
The battles roiling state capitals are being ignored by the muni-bond market, which has been coasting through a period of calm after a selloff late last year spooked investors and led to tens of billions of dollars of redemptions from muni-bond funds.
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Food Companies Under Pressure Over Pricing
Ahead of the Tape: Companies largely were able to shift costs to consumers during a run-up in prices in 2008. Today, they can pass on only a portion of them.

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SEC Probes Bank-Loan Practices
The agency is zeroing in on lenders that have restructured troubled loans in order to make them appear healthier than they really are.
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Hedge Funds Scramble as Rivals Exit
Moves by two hedge funds that bet on or against stocks to return money to investors are creating opportunity for rivals.
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AIG MetLife Sale Nets $9.67 Billion
American International Group and MetLife said all the MetLife securities offered to investors were sold for a total of $9.67 billion, putting AIG closer to its goal of fully repaying its government bailout.
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Small Idaho County Files for Bankruptcy
Boise County, Idaho, has filed for municipal bankruptcy protection because of an inability to pay a multimillion-dollar judgment against it.
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A Stock Play on Commodity Theme
The commodity boom has attracted a flood of speculative money, but for many investors, that surge is nothing more than a potential inflationary headache. The Fidelity Global Commodity Stock Fund is more interested in preventing the headache than it is in riding the commodity wave.
Arab Turmoil Hits Markets
Political unrest has sent stock markets tumbling across the Middle East and is threatening economic growth and the employment prospects of populations already hungry for change.
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Traders Signal Little Weatherford Worry
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Dollar Tumbles vs. European Rivals
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Toronto, London Exchanges Defend Merger
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Rebound Aside, CMBS Market Faces Hurdles
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Fed Finds Higher Costs Hitting Shoppers
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Money Keeps Flowing Into Long-Term Mutual Funds
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Beige Book Notes Modest Growth
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Cargill Takes Near-Record Sugar Delivery

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Investors Ask, Where's Home for Standard Chartered?
As Standard Chartered PLC delivers its eighth consecutive year of record results, its shareholders are naturally going to be asking once again why the emerging markets-focused bank is choosing to subject itself to costly U.K. regulation.
Governments' Inflation Solution - Money? [Video]
Bowing to public pressure, Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang has done an about-face and decided give 6,000 Hong Kong dollars (US$770) to every adult permanent resident of Hong Kong, the latest sweetener offered by an Asian government in the face of rising inflation.
On Tap Wednesday: Standard Chartered Earnings
HSBC Shareholders are a Hard Bunch to Please
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Tomorrow’s Tape: Kroger, Heinz, Jobless Claims, ISM Services
Earnings reports from foodies Kroger and H.J. Heinz are due to hit the tape, along with weekly jobless claims data and the February non-manufacturing ISM reading.
Apple iPad 2 Debut: Three Analyst Takeaways
They unveiled it. Jobs was there. The details were about as expected. Here's what three analysts thought.
Data Points: Crude oil
Giant Steps: These 30 Stocks Jumped the Most off Market Bottom
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Glencore Moves Into the Sunlight
Glencore is emerging into the sunlight, preparing an IPO that could value the company at up to $48 billion. But the Swiss company has some risks of its own that investors will do well to bear in mind.
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Japan's Top Flight When It Comes to Gridlock
It's too bad there's no economic value in political squabbling, beyond sales of newsprint perhaps. If there were, Japan's economy would be far better situated.
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Government Shutdown Shouldn't Clock Munis
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PPL's Pricey British Power Trip
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Bank Investors Deserve Fuller Picture of Legal Risk

Commodities

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Oil Settles Above $100 Mark
Crude futures settled above $100 a barrel for the first time in more than two years, and gold hit an all-time high, as heavy fighting in Libya spurred worries about oil supplies and inflation.
- Oil's Rise Hits Industries
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Japan, Korea Firms Take $1.95 Billion Rare-Metal Stake

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Stocks

Stocks Finish Higher
U.S. stocks ended a touch higher after the previous session's sharp selloff, even as crude oil rose above $100 a barrel and gold rose to a new record.
Most Asian Shares Up; Oil Tempers Demand
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A Stock Play on Commodity Theme

Bonds

For Muni-Bond Market, Calm After Storm
The battles roiling state capitals are being ignored by the muni-bond market, which has been coasting through a period of calm after a selloff late last year spooked investors and led to tens of billions of dollars of redemptions from muni-bond funds.
Battered Bonds a Berkshire Blemish
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Small Idaho County Files for Bankruptcy

Commodities

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Oil Settles Above $100 Mark
Crude futures settled above $100 a barrel for the first time in more than two years, and gold hit an all-time high, as heavy fighting in Libya spurred worries about oil supplies and inflation.
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Japan, Korea Firms Take $1.95 Billion Rare-Metal Stake
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A Stock Play on Commodity Theme

Currencies

Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End
For decades the dollar has served as the world's main reserve currency. Barry Eichengreen argues why it will soon have to share that role, and what it will mean for markets and companies.
Foreign Exchange Gone Wild
Can the Yuan Replace the Dollar?

Investing

Look Who's Buying Stocks Now
Call them the sheepish bulls—the people who know they sold low two years ago and worry that they are buying high today. How will it end?

World Markets

Asset Freeze Chills Libyan Holdings
With the government of Col. Moammar Gadhafi in turmoil, the country's assets in banks, funds and real estate have counterparties around the world scrambling to grasp the implications of asset freezes and sanctions.
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Speed Overhaul, Banker Tells U.K.
Investors Seek Safety in New Harbors

Deals

Battered Bonds a Berkshire Blemish
Warren Buffett has recorded a big loss on a troubled investment, one he made near the height of the leveraged-buyout boom.
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AIG MetLife Sale Nets $9.67 Billion
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Santander Weighs Joint Bid for Citi Unit

MarketWatch

Asia Stocks to Watch: China to offer personal income tax relief
China's proposal to raise the personal income tax threshold would leave more money in the pockets of the nation's vast army of low-income households, easing the impact of rising prices and spurring the consumer products and retail sectors.
Chuck Jaffe: Four ways consumers can get better credit
The Fed: Bernanke: Muni-bond market looking brighter
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Heartland Tech Titan
3M's innovation machine launched 1,300 products last year. With sales and profits rising and the company's footprint in emerging markets growing, the stock looks like a buy.
Calling All Bargain Hunters
Deep Possibilities
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