Reuters: A dispute over tires is making trade talks among G20 nations difficult.
Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) will give Congress documents about Merrill.
Reuters: Th G20 is looking at ways to rebalance the world’s economy.
Reuters: China and the US are trying to improve UN climate talks.
Reuters: The recession is pulling US senior citizens back to work.
Reuters: The Fed will
point to economic improvement and may start to back away from some stimulus.
Reuters: Moody’s (MCO) was accused of issuing inflated ratings.
Reuters: Asia is preparing for more risk management after being hurt by the credit crisis.
Reuters: Yahoo! (YHOO) sees growth in Asia and is comitted to Alibaba.com.
Reuters: The non-residential building index is at a three month low.
Reuters: The rise of the Chinese consumers is already showing up online.
Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) cut overdraft fees.
WSJ: Ford (F) is pushing harder to develop business in Asia.
WSJ: AIG (AIG) made day traders a great deal of money.
WSJ; Holiday jobs will be hard to find as retailers turn negative on year-end sales.
WSJ: Japan Air is considering a break-up of the company.
WSJ: Delays in foreclosure sales may be hurting the housing market.
WSJ: Geithner is pushing programs for growth.
WSJ: A shift in accounting practices should help some tech firms.
WSJ: IBM (IBM) is marketing low cost computer software in Africa.
WSJ: South Korea will allow Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales.
WSJ: China cited “morals” as part of a WTO appeal to a case allowing more entertainment content to go into the nation
WSJ: PC makers are trying to pick up sales in rural China.
WSJ: Only half of Madoff’s investors showed losses.
WSJ: Lowe’s (LOW) is scaling back expansion.
WSJ: The TV is shaping up as a key battleground for the Internet.
WSJ: Intel (INTC) is looking beyond the computer market.
WSJ: The IMF may become a policy watchdog.
WSJ: Ten investors will submit bids for $5 billion in condo loans that were held by Corus.
WSJ: California is doing well selling $8.8 billion in debt.
WSJ: Citigroup (C) is preparing to run with much less government debt.
WSJ: Intel (INTC) say the market for PCs is getting stable.
WSJ: Yahoo! (YHOO) has set an ad campaign to bring back web users.
NYT: EU antitrust officials would like to close a case with Microsoft (MSFT).
NYT: Labor is rekindling its push for a better trade agenda with help from the Administration.
NYT: A report says that human welfare should be much more important in rescuing the economy.
NYT: HP’s (HPQ) bet on EDS seems to have been successful.
NYT: The head of the AFL-CIO told Wall St. it faces pressure if it does not do more to help homeowners and address unemployment.
NYT: GM will call back 2,400 factory workers.
NYT: Despite losses many university endowments are still putting money into hedge funds.
NYT: Best Buy (BBY) and Verizon (VZ) are creating a device to compete with the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle.
NYT: Big polluters are being told to report emissions.
FT: China is providing gas to Iran which may break sanctions from other countries.
FT: China made an energy efficiency pledge.
FT: Intel (INTC) is working to create an alternative to the Apple (AAPL) App store.
FT: The Fed is doing more to link Wall St. bonuses to performance.
Bloomberg: The Fed will probably keep rates near zero.
Douglas A. McIntyre
