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  • Click for Full Story Toyota seeks damage control, in public and private

    02.09.2010 20:58 EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can.

     
  • Click for Full Story Asia stocks rise as Europe debt crisis fears ease

    02.09.2010 23:43 EST

    BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets mostly rose Wednesday after Europe and Wall Street gained on hopes a government debt crisis in Europe can be quarantined to smaller economies.

     
  • Click for Full Story Honda adds 437,000 cars to global air bag recall

    02.09.2010 23:07 EST

    TOKYO (AP) — Honda Motor Co. is adding 437,000 vehicles to its 15-month old global recall for faulty airbags in the latest quality problem to hit a Japanese automaker.

     
  • Click for Full Story Anthem asked to justify rate hike in California

    02.09.2010 21:50 EST

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — In his push to move stalled health care reform, President Barack Obama is appealing to American pocketbooks by calling one health insurer's major rate hike in California a harbinger of rising premiums.

     
  • New report: Consumers spent modestly in January

    02.10.2010 00:06 EST

    NEW YORK (AP) — Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according to figures released Wednesday by a key data service.

     
  • Senate Democrats unveil jobs package

    02.09.2010 19:21 EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats circulated a jobs bill Tuesday that's light on new initiatives on boosting hiring and heavy with provisions sought by lobbyists for business groups, doctors and the satellite broadcasting industry.

     
  • Click for Full Story Consumers tepid as Disney posts flat 1Q profit

    02.09.2010 20:37 EST

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Consumers sent tepid signals to The Walt Disney Co. during the holiday quarter, as many of them still required discounts to step into theme parks and reduced spending on food, beverages and merchandise when they got there.

     
  • Click for Full Story Stocks jump on hopes for Greece debt rescue

    02.09.2010 18:09 EST

    NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average jumped back above 10,000 on hope that a resolution was near for Greece's debt crisis.

     
  • Micron to buy Numonyx in $1.3 billion stock deal

    02.09.2010 19:50 EST

    BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Micron Technology says it plans to buy fellow memory chip maker Numonyx in an all-stock transaction the companies value at $1.27 billion.

     
  • Click for Full Story EU nations' reality: Greece's woes are theirs, too

    02.09.2010 17:15 EST

    BRUSSELS (AP) — Wealthy European nations were moving closer toward swallowing a bitter pill Tuesday: rescuing Greece from its overspending before its debts drag down the euro and stock markets all the way to Wall Street.

     
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