Thursday, September 24, 2009

Business Today: Stock futures flat as housing, jobless claims data ahead

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Good Morning Robert, THU 24 Sep 2009 

today's headlines

Stock futures flat as housing, jobless claims data ahead
Merkel warns against lost momentum at G20
U.S. jobless claims slide in latest week
Some U.S. bailout funds won't be recovered: watchdog
SEC sets insider trading charge in Dell-Perot deal
Microsoft says no plans to buy Electronic Arts
Visa, MasterCard get Hungary cartel fine
Fed's exit strategy may use money market funds: report
Oil drops towards $68 on demand uncertainty
Pentagon launches 3rd try to buy refueling planes
 

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Stock futures flat as housing, jobless claims data ahead
September 24, 2009 08:14 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were flat on Thursday as investors awaited the latest housing and jobless data and continued to digest a policy statement from the Federal Reserve that sent shares lower in the last session.

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Merkel warns against lost momentum at G20
September 24, 2009 08:26 AM ET
BERLIN/PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The Group of 20 summit will be key for financial reforms, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, warning that efforts to make the world less prone to financial disasters may lose momentum.

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U.S. jobless claims slide in latest week
September 24, 2009 08:32 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell 21,000 last week, government data showed on Thursday, and a less volatile unemployment claims gauge dipped to an eight-month low.

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Some U.S. bailout funds won't be recovered: watchdog
September 24, 2009 12:52 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. taxpayers will probably never recover all of the hundreds of billions of dollars invested to bail out financial firms, automakers and homeowners, a key watchdog for the program said on Thursday.

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SEC sets insider trading charge in Dell-Perot deal
September 24, 2009 07:51 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Texas man with insider trading for reaping $8.64 million of illegal profit related to Dell Inc's planned purchase of Perot Systems Corp .

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Microsoft says no plans to buy Electronic Arts
September 24, 2009 08:06 AM ET
CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has no plans to acquire Electronic Arts, a Microsoft executive said, shooting down unsubstantiated talk of a potential bid that triggered a spike in the video game publisher's shares.

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Visa, MasterCard get Hungary cartel fine
September 24, 2009 08:28 AM ET
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's competition authority fined Visa, MasterCard and the country's top commercial banks on Thursday for illegally fixing the fees they charge each other after bank card transactions.

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Fed's exit strategy may use money market funds: report
September 24, 2009 04:02 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is studying the idea of borrowing from money market mutual funds as part of eventual steps to withdraw stimulus, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

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Oil drops towards $68 on demand uncertainty
September 24, 2009 07:29 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices fell toward $68 a barrel after dropping nearly 4 percent in the previous session as a surprise jump in U.S. crude and product stocks stirred doubts that prices may have run ahead of demand fundamentals.

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Pentagon launches 3rd try to buy refueling planes
September 24, 2009 07:45 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department said Thursday it was relaunching a competition for a multibillion-dollar fleet of mid-air refueling planes after two botched tries to award the deal.

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