IBT Staff Reporter

Ireland's financial regulator said on Friday it is investigating the mispricing of trades at Merrill Lynch and is conferring with regulatory counterparts in the UK and the United States.

U.S. stocks mostly rose on Friday, with the Dow and S&P rebounding late in the day to end higher as surging oil prices lifted energy stocks and offset a sell-off in technology shares on bets that the slowing economy will sap consumer spending on gadgets.

Even as we struggle with serious global financial and economic difficulties, some people believe manmade global warming is a real problem of urgent concern. Perhaps this is because, almost every day, media outlets quote “experts” who predict that soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, increasing storms, prolonged droughts and other disasters will result from human activity.

The United States must make deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than proposed by President Barack Obama if the world is to stand a chance of avoiding devastating climate change, an EU official said.

U.S. stocks mostly rose on Friday, with the Dow and S&P rebounding late in the day to end higher as surging oil prices lifted energy stocks and offset a sell-off in technology shares on bets that the slowing economy will sap consumer spending on gadgets.

The Boxee and Hulu drama seems to have been reignited today.

Bernard Madoff, accused mastermind of a $50 billion investment fraud, is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges next week, three months after his arrest shocked his customers worldwide.

Stocks fell to further 12-year lows on Friday as a bearish brokerage view on Apple Inc prompted a sell-off in technology shares and overhanging fears about the banking system's future weighed.

New York financier Bernard Madoff, accused of a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, may be near a plea deal with prosecutors.

The Danish government is open to all options concerning its 14.3 percent stake in Scandinavian airline SAS including a sale or a merger, Finance Minister Lars Rasmussen told a parliamentary committee.

Sony’s latest-generation network security cameras will be use to survey and secure some of Department of Defense's most sensitive area.

Hudson Technologies, Inc. a leading distributor and reclaimer of refrigerants, said Friday that 2008 revenues ending in December 31, 2008 increased 23 percent.

It’s the time of the year when spring is at our doorstep and the clocks move one hour ahead on Sunday morning.

Stocks fell on Friday as a bearish brokerage view on Apple Inc ignited a sell-off in shares of big-cap tech companies, while fears over the fate of the banking system persisted.

General Motors Corp said on Friday that it still prefers to restructure the business out of court rather than file for bankruptcy reorganization.

Dow Chemical Co and Rohm and Haas Co said they are back at the bargaining table to try to settle litigation related to their proposed merger, sending both companies' stock up more than 15 percent.

Accused swindler Bernard Madoff took the first public step to pleading guilty to criminal charges of masterminding Wall Street's biggest fraud, according to court papers on Friday.

Senior members of the Obama administration's auto industry task force are meeting on Friday at the White House to review the status of restructuring efforts at General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, officials said.

Adobe Systems Inc. announced the release of its new Scene 7 Template Publishing that could extends the Adobe Scene7 hosted media platform.

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On March 6, recruiting and staffing company, Spherion Corporation reported a decrease in the Spherion Employee Confidence Index of 2.6 points to 40.1, its lowest level since 1967.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife was killed and he was injured on Friday when a truck slammed into their vehicle, officials in his MDC party said.

Roche Holding AG has raised its bid to buy out the minority shareholders of U.S. biotech group Genentech Inc to $93 a share from $86.50 and extended its tender offer by a week.

Wells Fargo & Co slashed its dividend 85 percent on Friday, a widely expected move that the fourth-largest U.S. bank said will save $5 billion a year.

Dow Chemical Co and Rohm and Haas Co said on Friday that they were in talks about their troubled merger and the litigation stemming from it.

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On March 5, America saw its stocks plummet to their lowest levels in more than 12 years as one of the world's most well known banks, and an icon of American manufacturing traded like money on monopoly board game.

Roche Holding AG has raised its offer to buy out the minority shareholders of U.S. biotech group Genentech Inc to $93 a share from $86.50 and extended its offer to shareholders by a week.

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