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AP Business Headlines
By 2010-07-30T02:46:00Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo says his office has opened a "major fraud investigation" into the life insurance industry....
By 2010-07-30T02:42:33Z
TOKYO (AP) -- Asian stocks slipped early Friday, after shares on Wall Street fell amid uncertainty about current economic conditions....
By MIHCAEL LIEDTKE 2010-07-30T02:28:11Z
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile battle over online censorship....
By LARRY NEUMEISTER 2010-07-30T02:05:25Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties and technology companies....
By 2010-07-30T02:01:36Z
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co.'s net profit surged 83 percent in the second quarter to a record high amid increased sales and strength in its semiconductor and flat panel businesses....
      
Wall Street Journal Headlines
The trustee recovering assets for victims of convicted Ponzi-scheme operator Bernard Madoff filed suits alleging customer assets were diverted to businesses to enrich Mr. Madoff's family members.
Billionaire brothers Sam Wyly and Charles Wyly hid $550 million in trading profits by using an "elaborate sham system" of offshore entities, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Thursday.
Citigroup will pay $75 million to settle regulatory charges that it failed to disclose $40 billion in subprime exposure to investors in the second and third quarters of 2007.
Charles River Laboratories and China's WuXi PharmaTech have mutually agreed to terminal their $1.6 billion deal because of opposition by Charles River shareholders, the companies said.
Exxon earnings jumped as the oil giant rebounded from the prior year's weak performance on higher commodities prices and improved refining margins.
      
CNNMoney Headlines
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the software giant is urgently working with its partners to unveil a host of tablet computers running Windows 7, to compete with Apple's fast-selling iPad.
Stocks slid Thursday, although they finished off their session lows, as investors weighed cautious comments from a regional Federal Reserve president about the health of the economy and a mix of quarterly profit reports.
Google users in China were temporary blocked from accessing the search engine, the company said Thursday, but the site was was once again working a few hours later.
Two days after BP said it will write off the cost of the oil spill cleanup against its income taxes, a U.S. senator is calling for a Congressional probe into the company's tax plans.
Better watch your back Exxon Mobil.
      
NY Times Business Headlines
Concerned about slow job creation, dwindling housing activity and decelerating retail sales, some economists have downgraded their expectations.
The founder and early investors in the microlender will reap millions from the share deal, but it was unclear how impoverished borrowers would benefit.
A Fed member warned that the agency’s current policies put the United States economy at risk of “Japanese-style” deflation.
The billionaire brothers who are large donors to conservative causes, were charged with conducting an extensive securities fraud.
Salmonella outbreaks that have sickened more than 400 people in the U.S. and Great Britain, have been traced to frozen mice sold over the Internet as food for exotic pets.
      
USA Today Business Headlines
College students will be able to shop around more for deals on textbooks, thanks to a new law that took effect this month.


"Subcompacts and small cars aren't the hot segments anymore," says George Magliano, director of auto forecasting for IHS Global Insight.


Investors may be fretting over the chance of a double-dip recession, but companies' earnings are coming in with sprinkles on top.


For generations, U.S. consumers have relied on banks to bear the primary responsibility for keeping their hard-earned cash deposits out of the ...


As Alan Grunberg neared 50, he knew he was going to need a colonoscopy, so he began shopping around to find the best place to get it done.


      
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