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Wells Fargo eyes end to Baltimore mortgage lawsuit Posted 13 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co <WFC.N> may be moving toward a settlement of Baltimore's lawsuit accusing it of steering minority borrowers to expensive home loans. The fourth-largest U.S. bank has asked a federal judge in Baltimore to extend the city's deadline to file an amended ...More

KKR files for NYSE listing Posted 25 minutes ago

AnnTaylor posts surprise quarterly profit Posted 26 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Women's clothing retailer AnnTaylor Stores Corp <ANN.N> reported a surprise quarterly profit on Friday, helped by tight inventory management and improved merchandise. The retailer, which operates its namesake Ann Taylor chain and the more casual, less expensive LOFT stores, said net income was $41 million ...More

LG Display to spend $1.3billion to up output Posted 5 hours, 14 minutes ago

PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Flat-screen maker LG Display <034220.KS> will spend $1.3 billion to raise output and help meet robust customer demand and is betting on booming premium LCD TV sales to drive strong growth this year. The LCD industry has enjoyed brisk demand for flat-screen TVs, helped ...More

Yara exits Terra battle, shares rise Posted 6 hours, 3 minutes ago

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Yara International ASA <YAR.OL> shied away from raising its offer for Terra Industries Inc <TRA.N> to top a rival bid, boosting its shares but scuppering its U.S. expansion plans. "Terra would be a perfect fit to Yara and attractive at our proposed valuation ...More

U.S. "very close" to job growth: Summers Posted 10 hours, 55 minutes ago

Obama to tap Yellen for Fed vice chair: source Posted 12 hours, 18 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar with the process said on Thursday. Yellen would replace Donald Kohn, a 40-year veteran of the Fed who announced ...More

Movie "Avatar" has few fans among mining execs Posted 16 hours, 12 minutes ago

Peter Kukielski, Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Mining for ArcelorMittal, speaks at the

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's enough to make a mining executive grit his teeth or his kids to give him the silent treatment. In a case of art imitating life -- with perhaps a little poetic license -- Oscar-winning movie "Avatar" paints big mining companies as the villains of the future. But ...More

Toyota discounts boost sales Posted 16 hours, 45 minutes ago

The 2011 Toyota Avalon debuts at the Chicago Auto Show

DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures. Toyota's U.S. sales surged by nearly 50 percent in the first eight days of March compared with ...More

Examiner sees accounting gimmicks in Lehman demise Posted 17 hours, 22 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc used accounting gimmicks and had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, but there was not extensive wrongdoing, a court-appointed examiner has found. In a 2,200-page report made public on Thursday, examiner Anton Valukas, chairman of law ...More

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