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Top RIM execs settle SEC charges

fines that are much smaller than those Balsillie and Lazaridis agreed to pay in settling with the Ontario Securities Commission. According to the SEC's complaint, the executives made false and misleading disclosures about how RIM priced and accounted for options. From 1998 through 2006, the company and the four senior executives illegally granted options to RIM executives and employees by back...

GM and Chrysler seeks nearly $22 billion more in aid

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a scenario favored by GM Europe's labor leaders. Efforts by GM to unload assets to raise cash have gone slowly since the automaker announced plans to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion from such steps last summer. China's Sichuan Auto Industry Group Co denied on Tuesday a report that it was interested in buying Hummer. ($1=.7908 euro) (Additional reporting by Soyouing Kim, David Bailey...

GM and Chrysler seek nearly $22 billion more in aid

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a scenario favored by GM Europe's labor leaders. Efforts by GM to unload assets to raise cash have gone slowly since the automaker announced plans to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion from such steps last summer. China's Sichuan Auto Industry Group Co denied on Tuesday a report that it was interested in buying Hummer. ($1=.7908 euro) (Additional reporting by Soyouing Kim, David Bailey...
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Chrysler seeks $5 billion more in government aid

a scenario favored by GM Europe's labor leaders. Saab could also be sold or closed down, analysts said, though Swedish Industry Ministry Secretary Joran Hagglund told Reuters he was confident GM would not leave Saab unprotected. Efforts by GM to unload assets to raise cash have gone slowly since the automaker announced plans to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion from such steps last summe...
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Top RIM execs settle SEC backdating charges

fines that are much smaller than those Balsillie and Lazaridis agreed to pay in settling with the Ontario Securities Commission. According to the SEC's complaint, the executives made false and misleading disclosures about how RIM priced and accounted for options. From 1998 through 2006, the company and the four senior executives illegally granted options to RIM executives and employees by back...
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RIM execs settle SEC option backdating charges

fines that are much smaller than those Balsillie and Lazaridis agreed to pay in settling with the Ontario Securities Commission. According to the SEC's complaint, the executives made false and misleading disclosures about how RIM priced and accounted for options. From 1998 through 2006, the company and the four senior executives illegally granted options to RIM executives and employees by back...
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Starbucks unveils Via instant coffee

an opportunity to reinvent a category, create new rituals and grow our customer base. Schultz said Via's target customer in the United States is the brewed coffee drinker. Overseas, the company aims to win over new instant coffee users and to steal market share from established brands such Nestle SA's Nescafe and Kraft Foods Inc's Sanka. The company already f...
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U.S. charges Allen Stanford with massive fraud

Stanford used false information to promote a mutual fund program separate from the CDs. The program grew to more than $1.2 billion from less than $10 million in 2004. There was no sign of imminent federal criminal charges against Stanford. James Dunlap, a lawyer representing about a dozen investors who bought CDs from Stanford Financial Group, said he planned to sue the financial firm as early ...
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RIM co-CEOs settle SEC option backdating charges

WASHINGTON - Blackberry maker Research in Motion's co-chief executives settled U.S. regulator claims that they illegally backdated millions of stock options over an eight-year period, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. RIM Co-CEOs James Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis did not admit to or deny the SEC's allegations. Balsillie agreed to pay $3...
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Bank worries and energy stocks yank Wall St. lower

NEW YORK - Stocks slid on Tuesday, sending Wall Street near bear-market lows as grim regional manufacturing data signaled the recession is worsening, while signs of more trouble in the banking sector sank financials. Financial shares led the way down on fears of more trouble for European banks after Moody's Investors Service said various eastern Europe banks faced downgrades and that recession ...
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U.S. housing and factories grim in February

and someone will need to buy the bonds to pay for it. Based on the data, there is little to suggest that interest in U.S. government debt is drying up, said Vassili Sereberiakov, senior currency strategist at Wells Fargo on New York. (Additional Reporting by Lynn Adler, Ryan Vlastelica, Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss)
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Capital One U.S. card delinquencies rise, stock down

for U.S. credit cards rose to 7.82 percent in January from 7.71 percent in December, while the rate for loans at least 30 days delinquent increased to 5.02 percent from 4.78 percent. The McLean, Virginia-based company said it expects loan losses from U.S. cards to increase to 8.1 percent in the first quarter. In auto loans, Capital One's charge-off rate rose to 6.09 percent in January from 5.9...
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Wal-Mart profit beats Wall St view

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted a profit that beat Wall Street forecasts, fueled by sales at its namesake U.S. discount stores, and said it expects to outperform rivals as a global downturn forces shoppers to seek low prices. Shares in the world's largest retailer rose 3 percent on the results, as investors shrugged off fears of a deeper global recession that prompted stock ...
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Economy and bank worries drag Wall Street lower

NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, pulling the benchmark S&P 500 index to its lowest in three months, after a regional manufacturing report fell to a record low and financial shares slid further on signs of more trouble for European banks. Dismal economic data from Japan added to the gloom and made oil prices sink. Energy shares were the biggest drag on the Dow and S&P stock indexes, ...
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More systematic Fed approach needed: Bullard

NEW YORK - The Federal Reserve needs a more systematic approach to expanding U.S. money supply to avoid deflation as it combats a global recession that looks likely to last at least through the first half of 2009, a top Fed official said on Tuesday. A key near-term risk for 2009 is disinflation and possibly deflation, St Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said in remarks prep...
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Capital One U.S. card delinquencies rise, shares drop

for U.S. credit cards rose to 7.82 percent in January from 7.71 percent in December, while the rate for loans at least 30 days delinquent increased to 5.02 percent from 4.78 percent. The McLean, Virginia-based company said it expects loan losses from U.S. cards to increase to 8.1 percent in the first quarter. In auto loans, Capital One's charge-off rate rose to 6.09 percent in January from 5.9...
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Clinton calls for coordinated economic response

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for coordinated action to revive the global economy on Tuesday and invited Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso to meet President Barack Obama at the White House next week.
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Recession and bank worries slam Wall Street

NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled on Tuesday as investors confronted fresh signs that the recession is worsening and worried that efforts to stabilize the beleaguered financial system may not prove sufficient. The slide took the benchmark S&P 500 below the 800 level for the first time since the bear market low of November 21, weighed by financials, energy companies and big manufacturers. Shares of ...
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BofA makes first payment to U.S. after $45 bln bailout

Bank of America announced it made a $402 million payment to the federal government to pay back the U.S. government's investment as part of the $45 billion in bailout funds it received last year and early this year.
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Obama signs stimulus into law, housing moves coming

U.S. President Barack Obama signed a $787 billion economic stimulus bill into law on Tuesday as global markets plunged on fears that the recession would deepen despite government action in many countries
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Alcatel, Ericsson seen as Verizon upgrade vendors

Alcatel-Lucent is seen as a key supplier of network equipment for a big upgrade at Verizon Wireless, along with other top contenders such as Ericsson, Nokia Siemens and Huawei, according to analysts and experts.
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Hundreds swarm Stanford's Antigua bank

Hundreds of people lined up at Texas billionaire Allen Stanford's Antiguan bank on Wednesday seeking to withdraw funds, a day after the tycoon was charged with an $8 billion fraud.
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Wall St. tumbles on recession and bank anxiety

NEW YORK - Stocks sank on Tuesday on concern that the recession is worsening and that efforts to stabilize the beleaguered financial system may not be enough. The slide took the benchmark S&P 500 below the 800 level for the first time since the bear market low of November 21 as financials and shares of big energy companies weighed. Shares of Bank of America fell 10.7 percent t...
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Wal-Mart profit beats Wall St. view

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street forecasts, helped by higher sales at its namesake U.S. discount stores, and said it expects to outperform competitors as a global downturn forces shoppers to seek low prices. Shares in the world's largest retailer rose 3.5 percent on the results, as investors shrugged off fears of a deeper global recess...

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