Reuters: The Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls grew to 8 million.
Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) is considering selling its real estate unit.
Reuters: Wall St. will fight Obama’s plan for the banking system.
Reuters: Obama said he would push jobs growth.
Reuters: The Senate will vote on Bernanke’s reappointment today.
Reuters: Obama is pushing exports as a key aspect of the recovery.
WSJ: Banks are looking for ways around new pay caps rules and pressure from Congress on compensation.
WSJ: Geithner defended his AIG (NYSE:AIG) actions saying they were essential to saving the credit markets.
WSJ: The Fed was upbeat in the FOMC notes and said it would keep rates low.
WSJ: The German operators of McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) say the company is trying to force them out of contracts.
WSJ: Sovereign debt problems are growing in Portugal and Greece.
WSJ: China will not limit the distribution or use of the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android OS.
WSJ: Nintendo profits dropped 9% in the first nine months of its fiscal year.
WSJ: Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) will increase R&D spending.
WSJ: New homes sales dropped in December.
WSJ: Subscriber numbers at NetFlix (NYSE:NFLX) rose.
WSJ: The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad will hurt the ability of cell carriers to hold customers based on their service.
WSJ: Investors are betting that rates will not rise when the Fed ends it $1.25 trillion purchase of mortgage paper.
WSJ: Ford (NYSE:F) may benefit from Toyota’s (NYSE:TM) problems.
NYT: The iPad is positioned between laptops and smartphones.
NYT: Carriers are pushing devices that use a great deal of bandwidth even though these strain their networks.
NYT: Technical snags may delay the start of The Wall Street Journal’s NYC edition.
FT: Barney Frank said the Obama bank overhaul plan needed to become law immediately.
FT: Twitter is working on technology to allow the service to evade censors.
FT: Toyota’s recal spreads to Europe.
Bloomberg: E-mails show that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) was favored by regulators.
Douglas A. McIntyre
