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	Financial Times - Financial markets news Bourses regain poise on Greek rescue hopes Eurozone debt woes undermine Nikkei Miners keep london shares positive Wall Street sinks on sovereign debt fears Shorting rule raises market volatility Traders make $8bn bet against euro Lloyds falls to seven-month low ahead of equity issue Overseas investors rush for Japanese assets Chinese IPO sentiment worsens Dollar benefits as haven from sterling
Reuters: Business News Asian shares mixed; euro wins respite Toyota recalls Prius, other hybrids over brakes JAL to stay with American in blow to Delta UBS back to profit in Q4, outflows accelerate Toyota pledges more responsiveness to U.S. regulators ECB Trichet departure sparks Greece rescue talk Nissan returns to Q3 profit, lifts forecast Swatch full-year profit beats poll, upbeat on 2010 Macquarie outlook disappoints; shares slide 7 percent CIT sets John Thain's salary at $6 million a year	FT.com - US Equities Market Data Filing reveals Chinese wealth fund's exposure Wall Street sinks on sovereign debt fears US jobs data show mixed picture Wall St volatile after mixed US jobs report Investors dazed by week of turmoil Learn from the past but be rooted in the present Air Products in fresh bid for rival US DoJ dissatisfied with Google book deal US stocks suffer sharp sell-off Short View: Global sell-off
Financial Times - Financial markets news Bourses regain poise on Greek rescue hopes Eurozone debt woes undermine Nikkei Miners keep london shares positive Wall Street sinks on sovereign debt fears Shorting rule raises market volatility Traders make $8bn bet against euro Lloyds falls to seven-month low ahead of equity issue Overseas investors rush for Japanese assets Chinese IPO sentiment worsens Dollar benefits as haven from sterling	WSJ.com: Real Time Economics Fed’s Bullard Advocates Selling Mortgage Securities Gradually in 2010 Economists Link Athletics to Success in School, Job Markets Fed’s Yellen: U.S. Rates Too Hot for China Indicator Shows Improvement in Jobs Picture Secondary Sources: Taxis and Rates, Jobs, Economist Malpractice What I Learned From Hank Paulson’s Book Despite Carping, Dollar Is Still King Kansas City Fed’s Hoenig Explains His Dissenting Vote GOP Reaction To Dodd Move On Banking Bill Mixed Shelby Statement on Regulatory Reform
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NYT > Recession The Worst of the Pain Is Greece’s Debt Trashing the Euro? The Truth About the Deficit This Crisis Won’t Stop Moving Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces After Escaping Jobless Rolls, Trauma May Linger Euro Debt Crisis Is Political Test for Bloc Fraying at the Edges The Morning the Milking Was Finished Surprising Strength in Long Islandâs Warehouse Market	NYT > Financial Regulatory Reform Protecting Banks in the Boardroom In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge The F.D.I.C. Closes a Small Minnesota Bank Seeking a Safer Way to Securitization A Broad U.S. Push to Ease Credit for Small Businesses Seeking Ways to Remake the Banking System Talks With G.O.P. on Financial Bill at ‘Impasse,’ Dodd Says Dodd Denounces Pace of Banking Overhaul For Vilified Banks, a Pay Cut Might Be the Best Case
NYT > Short Selling New Investment Tools Approved by Regulator in China Short Sales, a Long Process S.E.C. Floats a Short-Selling Proposal Australia Ends Ban on Short-Selling Goodbye to Naked Shorting S.E.C. Airs Proposals to Restrict Short-Selling Some Revile Plan to Limit Short-Selling A Clever Move by Porsche on VW’s Stock A Scramble to Shore Up Economies Worldwide Short-Sales Ban Caused Some Bears to Growl	NYT > Securities and Commodities Violations The Enforcers Insider’s Admission Deepens Galleon Case Judge Questions Bank of America’s New Deal With S.E.C. State Street Gave Some of Its Clients Better Data Compliant Witness Gets Probation in Galleon Case Madoff-Related Fraud Complaint Is Dismissed S.E.C. Settles Stockman Lawsuit Guilty Plea by Trader in Fraud Case S.E.C. Cites 2 Funds for Short-Sale Violations Indictments Against 7 in Galleon Insider Case
NYT > Economics Is Greece’s Debt Trashing the Euro? Euro Debt Crisis Is Political Test for Bloc Stuck in Neutral? Reset the Mood Selling Short a Humanistic Economist Capitalist Chameleon China Becomes World’s No. 1 Exporter, Passing Germany Britain’s Central Bank Leaves Key Rate and Stimulus Unchanged The Worst May Not Be Over for Europe The Protocol Society These Days, Countries in Misery Have Lots of Company	NYT > Deflation (Economics) Beef Bowl Economics California to Use Deflation in Assessing Property Taxes Japan’s Central Bank Provides Short-Term Loans Misguided Monetary Mentalities How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Making Music to Start a Revival Investors Are Awaiting Moves From the Fed Why Inflation Isn’t the Danger Building a Portfolio That Will Stay Afloat When Inflation Returns The Big Inflation Scare
NYT > National Debt (US) Heads in Sand Over Long-Term U.S. Budget Fixes The Truth About the Deficit Spending Cuts Meet Selective Support In $3.8 Trillion Budget, Obama Pivots to Trim Future Deficits Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power Senate Votes Along Party Lines to Raise Debt Limit Economic Challenge Is Also a Balancing Act Adults Only, Please President Plans Own Panel on the Debt Obama to Seek Spending Freeze to Trim Deficits	NYT > Quantitative Easing Sterling Hits 8 1 / 2 - Month Low vs Dollar Bank to Lower Growth Forecasts Sterling Hits 8 1 / 2 - Month Low For ‘Safe’ Investors, This May Be a Challenging Year A Crystal Ball, With Caveats and Corrections E.C.B. to Press Ahead With Tightening Credit for Banks Europe Holds Rate at 1%, but Tightens Bank Credit Japan’s Central Bank Provides Short-Term Loans Japan's Top Central Banker Plays Down Policy Conflicts In Britain, Visions of Japan's Decade of Stagnation
NYT > Economic Conditions and Trends Dow Industrials Close Below 10,000 Few Signs of Turnabout in Germany Ally for the Poor in an Unlikely Corner The World’s Watchmaker Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate Asian Stocks Mixed After Wall St Decline Asia Sails Smoothly Through Debt Waters Group of 7 Vows to Keep Cash Flowing Is Greece’s Debt Trashing the Euro? Terrorism and the Pocketbook	NYT > Banking Industry UBS Returns to Profit but Clouds Linger Protecting Banks in the Boardroom In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge Seeking a Safer Way to Securitization A Broad U.S. Push to Ease Credit for Small Businesses The F.D.I.C. Closes a Small Minnesota Bank Seeking Ways to Remake the Banking System Talks With G.O.P. on Financial Bill at ‘Impasse,’ Dodd Says Markets Sag in Europe After Sharp Sell-Off in Asia
NYT > Investment Banking 18 Ways to Break the Bank New Embattled Minority: Wall Street Brokers Female Bankers in India Earn Chances to Rule Morgan Stanley Tries on a New Psyche Planned U.S. Tax Might Hurt Europe’s Banks Less Executives Kept Wealth as Firms Failed, Study Says Chase Is Said to Be Buying British Bank Fiscal Blood on the Tracks Chinese Bond Sale Tests Global Demand A Modest Proposal to End Those Outlandish Bonuses	NYT > Boards of Directors Southern Christian Leadership Conference Picketed by Members At Genzyme, a Long View Taking Away Directors’ Rubber Stamps Harvard Teaching Hospitals Cap Outside Pay What Iceberg? Just Glide to the Next Boardroom Former eBay Chief Describes Efforts to Acquire Craigslist A Revolutionary War Widow’s Estate Becomes a Preservation Battleground Do Stockholders Really Know What’s Best? Some Object as Museum Shows Its Trustee’s Art S.E.C. Chief Wants Better Shareholder Voting
NYT > Brokers and Brokerage Firms As Brokerages Regroup, the Lines Are Open Once a Boutique, Now a Division Economists Try Target Practice in a Fun-House Mirror The Optimists’ Club Nearly 700 at Merrill in Million-Dollar Club Offering Free Investment Advice by Anonymous Volunteers Banks Bypassing Mortgage Brokers What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses Loss Shrinks at E*Trade Financial Merrill Lynch Name Is Adopted	NYT > Sovereign Wealth Funds China Lists $9.6 Billion in Shares of U.S. Companies Government Reconsiders Quick Sale of Citigroup Stake Big Paydays for Rescuers in the Crisis Dubai Crisis Tests Laws of Islamic Financing In Wake of Dubai, Trying to Predict the Next Crisis Dubai Fund Asks for Stay on Debt Payments Qatar Takes Profit on a Stake in Barclays Low Expectations and Windows 7 Singapore Wealth Fund Says Investments Fell 20% in Year Singapore Wealth Fund Dips, but Bounces Back
NYT > Currency Fraying at the Edges The Debtor the World Still Bets On Economic Measures by North Korea Prompt New Hardships and Unrest Influence of Speculation on Chinese Foreign Reserves Is Downplayed Asian Stocks Edge Down It Isn’t Working for Anyone Else Fruitful Decade for Many in the World China to Stay the Course on Currency, Wen Says Wall Street Stalls After Fed’s Comments Euro Membership and Higher Pension Age Embroil Polish Politics	NYT > Company Reports UBS Returns to Profit but Clouds Linger CVS Slightly Beats Forecasts, With Profit Increasing 11% Hasbro Shares Rise Sharply on Higher-Than-Expected Earnings and a Positive Forecast Electronic Arts Shrinks Loss, but Shares Fall on Forecast CVS Caremark Profit Grows 11% Hasbro Profit Surges on Higher Sales Lorillard Profit Falls on Higher Costs Aetna’s Profit Falls as Medical Costs Rise First Profit in Year for Airline in Britain Profit Rises at Pitney Bowes and Its Shares Gain
NYT > Corporations UBS Returns to Profit but Clouds Linger CVS Slightly Beats Forecasts, With Profit Increasing 11% Hasbro Shares Rise Sharply on Higher-Than-Expected Earnings and a Positive Forecast Electronic Arts Shrinks Loss, but Shares Fall on Forecast CVS Caremark Profit Grows 11% Hasbro Profit Surges on Higher Sales Lorillard Profit Falls on Higher Costs Aetna’s Profit Falls as Medical Costs Rise First Profit in Year for Airline in Britain Profit Rises at Pitney Bowes and Its Shares Gain	NYT > Antitrust Actions and Laws Music Inc. Gets Bigger Justice Dept. Criticizes Latest Google Book Deal Big Food Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun Wins Approval of Europeans An Antitrust Complaint for Google in Germany Pick for Top Digital Job in Europe Is Grilled France, Grudgingly, Imagines Google as a Partner on Digital Media Projects Antitrust Questions for Monsanto Intel’s Bet on Innovation Pays Off in Faster Chips Football and Antitrust
NYT > Private Equity Shareholders Deciding a Dividend South Korea Fund Buys Stake in Gatwick Airport Resetting the Moral Compass In Cadbury-Kraft, 2 Winning Sides Joint Effort in Europe Seeks Assets in Distress Tepid I.P.O.’s Spell Trouble for Private Equity A Crystal Ball, With Caveats and Corrections Suit Accuses Citigroup of Fraud in EMI Deal Attention Shifts to China for Private Equity Industry Report Says Big Buyouts Are Likelier to Default	NYT > Bonuses Some See Restraint in Goldman Chief’s Bonus Rivals Await Blankfein’s Bonus at Goldman Sachs For Vilified Banks, a Pay Cut Might Be the Best Case Cutbacks on Wall St. Are Burden for Albany $100 Million Bonus Plan at A.I.G. Draws Fire Bank Tax Is Knotty Issue for New York’s Senators In Sweden, Banks Differ on Paying Bonuses Ailing Banks Favor Salaries Over Shareholders Ready to Spend, but Not to Boast At Bonus Time, Less Appetite for Toys
NYT > Budgets and Budgeting California Makes Plea for U.S. Aid Army to Rescind Spending Cuts for Bases E.U. Warns of Tough Supervision of Greece’s Budget House Panel Sees Pros and Cons in NASA Plan City Seeks to Close 15 Day Care Centers in Budget Cut Gates Tries to Get F-35 Program Back on Course Obama Budget Freezes Much Domestic Spending In Casinos, New York Faces Uncertain Returns Bloomberg Unveils a Grim Budget They’re Right to Be Galled	NYT > Accounting and Accountants Inspired to Pick Up Where Others Left Off for Holocaust Survivors Ex-Partners of Ernst & Young Sentenced to Prison Easy Money Paying With Plastic to Please the Accountants Ernst to Pay the S.E.C. $8.5 Million U. of California Hires Auditor in Dispute With Ex-Dean Peter R. Scanlon, Who Led Coopers When Big 8 Ruled Auditing, Is Dead at 78 Board to Propose More Flexible Accounting Rules for Banks Avoidance by the Numbers Volcker Criticizes Accounting Proposal
NYT > Taxes Obama’s Balancing Act on U.S. Trade Policies Swiss Bank Accounts A Bipartisan Plan for a Tax Break to Create Jobs Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo Cutbacks on Wall St. Are Burden for Albany Bank Data May Unveil German Tax Evaders, Finance Official Says Massachusetts: Sex Change Tax Benefits Merkel Willing to Pay for Swiss Account Names Germany Weighs Purchase of Swiss Bank Data by Informant Is a Swiss Deal a Deal?	NYT > Federal Taxes (US) Swiss Bank Accounts Massachusetts: Sex Change Tax Benefits Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks? Banks’ Derivatives Activity Falls Under I.R.S. Scrutiny Taxpayer Advocate Faults I.R.S. on Collecting Delinquent Taxes I.R.S. Unveils Plans to Regulate Paid Tax Preparers U.S. Is Said to Consider Easing Informant’s Term It’s Tax Time for the Savvy and the Quick Tax Cuts Might Accomplish What Spending Hasn’t Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Deficits
NYT > Income Tax Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks? More Tax Chores for the Wealthy at Year-End Strategies to Help Grandchildren Now, Not Later Comptroller’s Report Reveals Drop in State Revenues Leaders in House Seek to Tax Rich for Health Plan Proposal to Raise Income Tax in Pennsylvania Financial Wisdom From a New Graduate Big Names on California's Tax-Cheat List Top Earners Hold Mixed Views on Plan for Higher Taxes Albany Agrees on a Plan to Raise Taxes on Top Earners	NYT > Alternative Minimum Tax It’s Tax Time for the Savvy and the Quick Answers on Tax Questions, Part Two Easing Impact of a Tax Rise Answers on Tax Questions, Part One A Tax on Cadillac Health Plans May Also Hit the Chevys Once and Future Taxes It’s Hard to Worry About a Deficit 10 Years Out Democrats in Congress Are Ready to Pare Budget Braced for a Higher Tax Bill, Some May Dodge the Bullet Cracking the Code as Tax Changes Loom
NYT > Capital Gains Tax An Estate Tax Mess Estate Tax Is Expiring, but Death Won’t Last More Tax Chores for the Wealthy at Year-End Putting a Bull’s-Eye on a Tax Loophole Two Americas, Two Tax Codes Cracking the Code as Tax Changes Loom Investment Tax Cuts Help Mostly the Rich Tax Break May Have Helped Cause Housing Bubble From 2 Rivals, 2 Prescriptions Obama Camp Puts Forward More Modest Tax Changes	NYT > Appraisals and Valuation Three Faces of Market Danger How to Sell Your Business Getting Serious About Your House and the Market When Emotions Move the Markets Manhattan Apartment Sales Bounced Back Over the Summer, but Not All the Way New York Appraisals Get Shortchanged Appraisals as Deal Scuttlers In Appraisal Shift, Lenders Gain Power and Critics Appraising the Appraiser Striking Declines Seen in Manhattan Real Estate Market
NYT > Automobile Insurance and Liability Good Luck Getting Private Insurance for Unemployment A.I.G. to Sell Auto Insurance Unit Geico’s Lizard Offers a New Message of Reassurance 61 Used Staged Crashes and a Clinic to Bilk Insurers of $1.6 Million, the Police Say In Germany, Cars by the Hour Car Insurance May Not Cover You at the Track Driving Is Down, but Auto Insurance Rates Are Rising Which Dents Ding the Wallet? Demystifying the Dreaded End-of-Lease Inspection When Modifying Vehicles, Upgrade the Insurance	NYT > Bankruptcies St. Vincent’s Gets Loans for a Four-Week Reprieve Bankruptcy Judge Approves Bonus Payments for Tribune Executives Air America, the Talk Radio Network, Will Go Off the Air JAL Bankruptcy Filing Sets Off Reorganization and State-Led Bailout Investors Sell as Japan Airlines Nears a Bankruptcy Filing Walk Away From Your Mortgage! Mesa, a Regional Airline, in Bankruptcy Filing South Korean Conglomerate Faces Cash Crunch Citadel Broadcasting Files for Bankruptcy Credit Derivatives That Distort Markets
NYT > Certificates of Deposit Stanford Points Fingers in Fraud Case Not All Certificates of Deposit Are Plain Vanilla or Safe F.B.I. Finds Financier Suspected of Fraud Texas Town Holds Roots of Empire S.E.C. Fines Didn’t Avert Stanford Group Case As Others Fled Venezuela, Stanford Saw a Chance Texas Firm Accused of $8 Billion Fraud U.S. Agents Scrutinize Texas Firm The Hunt Is On for New Money Bank to Add to Chinese Investment	NYT > Gasoline Prices Cold and Signs of Stronger Economy Drive Oil Above $81 No Change in Oil Goal, but Cartel Is Watchful A Break at the Gas Pump A Growing Disaster Oil and Gas Price Increases Meet Opposition in Philippines Paul Bloom, 70, Is Dead; Won Billions From Big Oil As the Dollar Sinks, Oil Skyrockets Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries For OPEC, Current Oil Price Is Just Right Visions of an Energy-Starved World
NYT > Foreclosures American Charged in Haiti Had Some Troubles in Idaho No Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away Sick and Tired of Treading Water Riverton Houses in Harlem to Be Sold in Foreclosure F.H.A. Lending Standards Tightened Underwater, but Will They Leave the Pool? Here’s How to Help Treasury Weighs Fixes to Foreclosures Program City Bids to Save Housing Imperiled by Investors F.H.A. to Raise Standards for Mortgage Insurance	NYT > Derivatives Risky Trading Wasn’t Just on the Fringe at A.I.G. Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won Credit Derivatives That Distort Markets My Half-Baked Bubble Keeping Derivatives in the Dark The Swaps Market Is Too Big to Ban Another Round of Regulatory Reform The State of Financial Reform Don’t Let Exceptions Kill the Rule Lobbyists Mass to Try to Shape Financial Reform
NYT > Futures and Options Trading The Enforcers Insider’s Admission Deepens Galleon Case Judge Questions Bank of America’s New Deal With S.E.C. State Street Gave Some of Its Clients Better Data Compliant Witness Gets Probation in Galleon Case Madoff-Related Fraud Complaint Is Dismissed S.E.C. Settles Stockman Lawsuit Guilty Plea by Trader in Fraud Case S.E.C. Cites 2 Funds for Short-Sale Violations Indictments Against 7 in Galleon Insider Case	NYT > Mortgage-Backed Securities HIGH & LOW FINANCE; Findings, But No Final Word Banks Are Set to Receive More Leeway on Asset Values Mathematical Model and the Mortgage Mess Declining Exports Weaken Once-Powerful Asian Economies Savings and Loan Crisis May Be Guide for Bank Bailout Bailout Plan Is Only One Step on a Long Road The Buck Stopped Then The Wall Street Bailout Plan, Explained Dr. Doom Deutsche Bank Posts Quarterly Loss, Evidence of the Reach of the Financial Crisis
NYT > Mortgages and the Markets Seeking a Safer Way to Securitization No Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away Sick and Tired of Treading Water Loans for Green Homes F.H.A. Lending Standards Tightened Jobless Turn to Family for Help Treasury Streamlines Its Mortgage Program A New Take on Refinancing Underwater, but Will They Leave the Pool? Here’s How to Help	NYT > Collateralized Debt Obligations Another Rescue? A Hint of Distress In a Dictionary Of Business Terms Finance for Our Times Quinn Solution, The Ambac Reaches Agreement on $3.5 Billion in Exposure What Ails the American Economy? Everything, and There’s Worse to Come Faulting UBS for Losses in Bad Debt, Bank Is to Sue U.S. Said to Be Weighing Public Pricing of Derivatives Speculation on E*Trade Hurts Stock It’s Time to Act Like Grown-Ups
NYT > Credit Default Swaps Market Frenzy Over Greece Is Disturbingly Familiar AIG Hires KeyCorp Exec to Oversee Finance, Risk Debt Problems Chip Away at Fortress Europe Risky Trading Wasn’t Just on the Fringe at A.I.G. Will Dubai Be a Drag on Gulf Region? Pro-Wall Street Democrat Takes On a House Veteran Anger Over Bankers' Pay Obscures More Critical Issues Société Générale to Write Off More Debt Mortgage Assets Take Toll on Société Générale Questions for the Big Bankers	NYT > Credit Crisis — The Essentials Protecting Banks in the Boardroom European Central Bank in a Squeeze Is Greece’s Debt Trashing the Euro? Group of 7 Vows to Keep Cash Flowing Moving the Deck Chairs This Crisis Won’t Stop Moving Dodd Denounces Pace of Banking Overhaul House Allows Debt to Rise $1.9 Trillion Rivals Await Blankfein’s Bonus at Goldman Sachs For Vilified Banks, a Pay Cut Might Be the Best Case
NYT > Municipal Bonds In Bonds, a Balance of Risk and Yields U.S. Charges Financial Firm in California With Fraud 3 Accused of Bid-Rigging in Municipal Bonds Sales New Federal Power Urged Over Municipal Bond Sales Beware of Rallies in Uneasy Times Regulator Reviews Troubles in Municipal Bond Securities Another Rescue? Localities Want U.S. to Support Muni Bonds More Investors, Chastened by Stock Losses, Settle for Municipal Bonds Overhaul in Bond Sales Is to Be Urged in Tennessee	NYT > Mutual Funds For Financial Advice, Arriving at the Right Dosage A Great Run, but Where Will We Land? Beating the Market: It’s Still a Tall Order How to Gauge the Rush to Emerging Markets Different Paths, Similar Successes Hedge Fund Strategies, at Smaller Prices Just How Much Steam Do REITs Have Left? For Savers, It Was Hardly a Lost Decade The Forest, the Trees and Your Portfolio In Fund Flows, a Caution for Stocks
NYT > Commercial Paper When Law Obscures the Facts Bank of Japan Steps Up Effort to Ease Credit Fed Adds $21 Billion to Loans for A.I.G. Fed Adds to Its Efforts to Aid Credit Markets Bold Pledges From Leaders, but Investors Await Details Fed Announces Plan to Buy Short-Term Debt Fed Considers Plan to Buy Companies’ Unsecured Debt Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans Think First, Bail Out Later Whole Class of Debt in Canada Is Bankrupt	NYT > Durable Goods (Economic Indicator) Demand for Durable Goods Softer Than Expected Sales of New Homes Drop in U.S. New Signs That Recovery May Come in Dribs and Drabs A Big Gain in July for New-Home Sales Why a Recovery May Still Feel Like a Recession Fed Sees Signs That the Economy Is Stabilizing Orders of Manufactured Goods Rise for 2nd Month U.S. Manufacturing Orders Rose Sharply in April Economic Signals Surpass Expectations Unexpected Increase in Factory Orders
NYT > Consumer Price Index U.S. Reports Upturn in Home Building U.S. Home Building Unexpectedly Slumps in October Consumer Prices Rise on Energy Costs Consumer Prices Hold Steady, Easing Inflation Fears Costly Gas Pushes Up Consumer Prices Slight Rise for Consumer Prices in May Fed Report Hints That Pace of Decline Is Easing Consumer Prices Rise, Easing Deflation Fear Energy Costs Push Up Consumer Prices in January Consumer Prices Rose Just 0.1 Percent in ’08	NYT > Producer Price Index Production Gains in U.S. Offer Hope for More Hiring U.S. Wholesale Prices Show Few Inflation Pressures Autos Lead an Increase in Retail Sales Housing Starts and Producer Prices Drop Home Construction Rebounds Solidly From April’s Steep Decline Jump in Food Costs Drives Up Prices Retail and Price Data Show Continuing Economic Weakness Producer Prices Plunge in October Inflation Falls, as Do Retail Sales Higher Costs Are Taking a Toll on Business
NYT > Energy and Power Chávez Declares an ‘Electricity Emergency’ in Venezuela Making Solar Power Portable Cleaning Up After a Snowstorm as Another One Looms 5 Dead, Dozens Hurt in Connecticut Power Plant Blast When Windmills Don’t Spin, People Expect Some Answers Panel Suggests 100 Ways Buildings Can Be Greener An Electric Boost for Bicyclists In Portland, Growing Vertical Carter’s Sunny Day Recharging Your Cellphone, Mother Nature’s Way	NYT > Consumer Behavior Free Checking Could Go the Way of Free Toasters Consumer Borrowing Fell Once Again in November A Campaign Linking Clean Clothes With Stylish Living Study Raises Cost Estimate for Electric Cars How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market Health Spending Rises in 2008, but at Slower Rate Trying to Add Portability to Movie Files In Recession, Americans Doing More, Buying Less Once Snow Was Shoveled, Shoppers Gave Stores a Lift A Tentative Sparkle Enlivens Holiday Shopping
NYT > Advertising and Marketing This Campaign Is Wet (and Wild) Newsstand Sales and Circulation Fall for Magazines Do-It-Yourself Super Ads Plentiful Content, So Cheap A City Rejoices, but the Focus Is Elsewhere Q & A With Stuart Elliott In Super Bowl Commercials, the Nostalgia Bowl People and Accounts of Note The Fight Over Who Sets Prices at the Online Mall Accounts, People & Miscellany	NYT > Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Protecting Banks in the Boardroom In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge The F.D.I.C. Closes a Small Minnesota Bank Seeking a Safer Way to Securitization A Broad U.S. Push to Ease Credit for Small Businesses Seeking Ways to Remake the Banking System Talks With G.O.P. on Financial Bill at ‘Impasse,’ Dodd Says Dodd Denounces Pace of Banking Overhaul For Vilified Banks, a Pay Cut Might Be the Best Case
NYT > Investments Index Funds, Dowdy to Some, Get a Notable Endorsement At Bonus Time, Less Appetite for Toys Free Checking Could Go the Way of Free Toasters For Financial Advice, Arriving at the Right Dosage A Great Run, but Where Will We Land? In Bonds, a Balance of Risk and Yields Beating the Market: It’s Still a Tall Order How to Gauge the Rush to Emerging Markets Different Paths, Similar Successes Hedge Fund Strategies, at Smaller Prices	NYT > Planning Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo Merkel Willing to Pay for Swiss Account Names Obama Outlines Plan to Increase Employment I.R.S. Moves to Uncover Dubious Use of Shelters Lawmakers Hunt for Ways to Rekindle Hiring Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks? Swiss Ruling Jeopardizes Deal for UBS Clients’ Names Swedish Bank Fee Sets Example for America Banks’ Derivatives Activity Falls Under I.R.S. Scrutiny Annual Poll of Freshmen Shows Effect of Recession
NYT > Pensions and Retirement Plans A New Look at Annuities South Korea Fund Buys Stake in Gatwick Airport The Unloved Annuity Gets a Hug From Obama Thinking Hard About Retirement and Death The Temptations of $126 Billion Mercer’s Little Alaska Problem Pittsburgh Sets Vote on Adding Tax on Tuition Players in Europe Ponder an N.B.A. Pension Protection Chief Struggles With Madoff Claims Euro Membership and Higher Pension Age Embroil Polish Politics	NYT > Retirement The Unloved Annuity Gets a Hug From Obama Southeast Asia Woos the World For Financial Advice, Arriving at the Right Dosage In Bonds, a Balance of Risk and Yields New Rules Ease Roth Conversions, but Benefits Vary Thinking Hard About Retirement and Death Americans Are Finally Saving. How Did That Happen? Players in Europe Ponder an N.B.A. Pension A.I.G. Units Omit Name and Excel Ford May Use Stock to Pay Into a Fund
NYT > Credit Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe With Your Allowance) Low Rates for Just a Few The Damage of Card Rewards How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market Redeem All of Gift Card, or Give Store a Present Americans Owe Less. That’s Not All Good. The Lure of Store Credit Cards, and the Hook Site-Hopping for Holiday Savings U.S. Looks to Australia on Credit Card Fees A Gift to Credit Card Companies	NYT > Insurance The Odds of a Disability Are Themselves Odd Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo Migraines Force Sufferers to Do Their Homework Samsung Life I.P.O. Could Settle Long Dispute With Creditors Dealing With the Financial Burden of Autism If Bills Fail, a Quandary for Insurers Swiss Re Gets $1.27 Billion in Deal With Buffett Proposals Clash on States’ Role in Health Plans Deals to Restrain Generic Drugs Face a Ban Unions Rally to Oppose a Tax on Health Insurance
NYT > Gross Domestic Product Asia Sails Smoothly Through Debt Waters Deep in Debt, Spain Cuts Spending by $70 Billion U.S. Economy Grew at Vigorous Pace in Last Quarter Growth in British Economy Suggests End to Recession China on Path to Become Second-Largest Economy Bank Chief Says Greece Gets No Special Treatment Learning From Europe A Way to Share in a Nation’s Growth Tax Credit Gives a Lift to Housing International Monetary Fund Withholds $3.5 Billion Loan to Ukraine	NYT > Gross National Product (GNP) China Leads Better-Than-Expected Global Recovery Swedish Bank Fee Sets Example for America Bank Chief Says Greece Gets No Special Treatment Growth in Germany Neared Zero at End of ’09 China Is Thriving, Its Economic Data Shows Stimulus and Exports Help Ease Japan’s Recession Economists Seek to Fix a Defect in Data That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor U.K. Is Still in Recession as the Euro Bloc Improves China’s Growth Picks Up Speed but Raises Concerns Canada’s Economy Improved in Second Quarter
NYT > International Trade and World Market In Toyota Mess, Lesson for Japan In Secret, Nations Work Toward Crackdown on Piracy Obama’s Balancing Act on U.S. Trade Policies This Crisis Won’t Stop Moving Euro Debt Crisis Is Political Test for Bloc China Rejects U.S. Complaints on Its Currency Bond Investors Hungry for Kraft China Escalates Trade Fight Over European Shoe Tariff Oh, What a Feeling: Watching Toyota Flunk for Once White House Unveils Plan to Double U.S. Exports	NYT > Personal Finances Index Funds, Dowdy to Some, Get a Notable Endorsement The Odds of a Disability Are Themselves Odd Manufacturing Expanded Last Month The Unloved Annuity Gets a Hug From Obama Watch Where You Click (and Have a Great Day) At Bonus Time, Less Appetite for Toys Free Checking Could Go the Way of Free Toasters Annual Poll of Freshmen Shows Effect of Recession For Financial Advice, Arriving at the Right Dosage Three Paths to Personal Financial Order
NYT > Social Security (US) The Bipartisan Panel: Did It Really Work? A Drop in the Wrong Bucket 65 and Up and Looking for Work The High Price of Being a Gay Couple Shake the Government’s Helping Hand. Or Bite It. Obama’s Mixed Messages Continuing a Conversation on Social Security Collect Now, or Later? Timing Your Social Security Benefits Weakness in Social Security Numbers Is Found Safety Net Is Fraying for the Very Poor	NYT > Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index Home Prices Up Slightly in November New Slip in Housing Prices Undercuts Fragile Optimism Home Prices May Be Nearing a New Dip Getting Serious About Your House and the Market Fears of a New Chill in Home Sales U.S. Home Prices Continue to Improve, Index Shows Index Shows an Improvement in Home Prices Recovery Signs in Housing Market Stir Some Hope U.S. Home Price Declines Moderating, Index Says Home Prices Continued Their Decline in March
NYT > Stock Options and Purchase Plans A Window Opens on Pay for Bosses Charges Dismissed Against 2 Broadcom Executives To Retain Its Bankers, Citi Offers Option Plan Judges Overturn Backdating Conviction Efforts to Repay Bailouts May Undercut Benefit for Taxpayers When a Company Tries It, a ‘Say on Pay’ Works Former Executive at Monster Guilty How the Pay Figures Were Calculated Video Game Maker to Pay $3 Million to Settle Stock Options Case Stock Options Are Adjusted After Many Share Prices Fall	NYT > Stocks and Bonds Dow Industrials Close Below 10,000 Shareholders Deciding a Dividend China Lists $9.6 Billion in Shares of U.S. Companies An S.& P. Scoop Was a Blunder An S.& P. Scoop Was a Blunder Asian Stocks Mixed After Wall St Decline Treasury Auctions Set for This Week Macquarie Cautious on Outlook; Shares Down 6 Percent Is the Market ‘Priced for Perfection’? Index Funds, Dowdy to Some, Get a Notable Endorsement
NYT > Superfund City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup U.S. Cites Emergency in Asbestos-Poisoned Town From Gowanus to Venice Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson Justices Limit Liability Over Toxic Spill Cases Without Superfund Tax, Stimulus Aids Cleanups On the Gowanus Canal, Fear of Superfund Stigma Gowanus Canal, Polluted for Many Decades, May Become Superfund Site Justices Hear Cases on Paying for Superfund Cleanups U.S. Officials Will Review Pollution in Waterway	NYT > Unemployment The Worst of the Pain Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces The Odds of a Disability Are Themselves Odd After Escaping Jobless Rolls, Trauma May Linger Labor Market Shows Signs of Rebirth in New Data Job Growth Tops Forecasts in Canada Time Is Running Out Unexpected Rise in U.S. Jobless Claims G.O.P. Senator Is Sworn In, and Democrats Regroup Highlights from the You’re the Boss Blog
NYT > United States Economy The Worst of the Pain The World’s Watchmaker In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Looking Ahead With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps Obama’s Balancing Act on U.S. Trade Policies Moving the Deck Chairs This Crisis Won’t Stop Moving The Truth About the Deficit A Globe Still in Need of Steel	NYT > Venture Capital Building Haiti’s Economy, One Mango at a Time Venture Capital Was Tight for Tech Start-Ups in ’09 For Many Start-Ups, a Spot on the Nasdaq Is No Longer the Goal Asian Computer Makers Move Into Riskier Ventures Following Venture Capital for Signs of Tech to Come Russians Buy Stake in Web Games Silicon Valley Firm Raises Big Fund for Mix of Deals Can Public Aid Really Help Business? News Erupts, and So Does a Web Debut Despite Slump, Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund