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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday a strengthening economy means the government can end some of the extraordinary support it put in place for markets and prepare for a slow recovery.

Verizon Communications says it is ready to oppose the sale of the enterprise business unit of Canadian telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks' to Avaya Inc for $475 million, citing public safety and security concerns.

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Barrick Gold Corp said on Thursday that proceeds from its pending equity offering will total around $4 billion, making the stock sale the biggest in Canadian history, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Contrite U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials apologized for bungling five probes that should have uncovered Bernard Madoff's $65 billion fraud and pledged to overhaul the way the agency operates.

Polo Ralph Lauren Corp, the fashion company behind the Polo and Club Monaco brands, said on Thursday its smaller Rugby brand was launching an iPhone application that lets users design their own shirts.

With yesterdays Australian unemployment rate coming in on expectations and unchanged at 5.8% local investors took the opportunity to take profit on long AUD positions. Casting some doubt over the figures was the change in seasonally adjusted estimate of full time employment decreased by almost 31k jobs prompting a move lower in the AUD/USD which was trading around 0.8630 at the time of the release.

The stunning choice of comedian and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres as the new judge on TV show American Idol appeared set to revive interest in the top-rated talent show after three years of falling ratings.

Motorola Inc unveiled on Thursday the first of many cellphones to be developed in partnership with Google, but analysts questioned if it could revive the once-dominant handset maker's fortunes.

US TREASURIES powered through resistance today on a buy American which had both US debt and equities rising for this session. The catalyst for the jump in Treasuries was a greater demand at the $ 12 billion auction for US 30 year securities.

General Motors agreed to sell a 55 percent stake in Opel to a group led by Canada's Magna after months of fraught negotiations that had weighed on the European unit and its 50,000 workers.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Automobile Dealers Association have asked an appeals court to review the federal government's decision to let California set its own auto emissions standard.

A key U.S. lawmaker on Thursday expressed concern that much of the eastern part of the United States could be disqualified from broadband grants because of the way remote communities are considered.

Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Thursday the U.S. economic recovery has started and the Fed could stop short of buying the full amount of mortgage-related securities it said it would buy to boost the economy.

Contrite U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials apologized for bungling five probes that should have uncovered Bernard Madoff's $65 billion fraud, and its internal watchdog told top regulators to be more aggressive in investigating tips.

Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Thursday the U.S. economic recovery has started and the Fed could stop short of buying the full amount of mortgage-related securities it said it would buy to boost the economy.

The European Union outlined a scaled-back offer to help poor nations combat global warming on Thursday as some nations expressed gloom about prospects of a new U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen in December.

A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.

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Paul Karason, the man whose skin turned blue made a second public appearance on the Today show Thursday.

U.S. airlines are coming back into favor with analysts amid more competitive pricing and evidence the global economy is on a recovery path.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers said in a report on Thursday that the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year had created as many as 1.1 million jobs by the third quarter.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said on Thursday the U.S. central bank was developing tools to remove its extremely loose monetary policy, but this exit would not happen at all soon.

After combing the acting landscape, Walt Disney Pictures has chosen Mandy Moore to voice the lead role in its Digital 3D-animated musical action-adventure Rapunzel, inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

Jon Amiel's Creation is bound to spark controversy because it depicts Charles Darwin struggling with his epochal 1859 work, On the Origin of Species, though it's much more than a red flag to religious fundamentalists. The opening-night film at the Toronto International Film Festival is an intelligent, touching depiction of a brilliant man who's sure of his scientific skills but tormente...

U.S. stocks gained for a fifth straight session on Thursday, their longest string of gains since November, as a bright outlook from consumer product company Procter & Gamble and a successful Treasury bond auction boosted investors' confidence.

Gov't Prepares for Growth; Recovery for Airlines; GM to Sell Opel

After bungling five probes that should have uncovered Bernard Madoff's $65 billion fraud, regulators must learn to aggressively investigate tips and complaints to catch wrongdoers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's internal watchdog said on Thursday.