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Good Morning Robert, THU 24 Jun 2010 
 
Stock futures dip on Fed comments
Wall Street reform bill goes into final hours
Jobless claims drop 19,000 last week
Apple mania unabated as fans scramble for iPhone 4
Europe digs in on budget austerity ahead of G20
Lennar posts profit but orders down 10 percent
Feinberg to quit pay czar post to focus on BP fund
Lawmakers renew focus on China after yuan stalls
Providence Equity in talks with Hasbro: report
Ford Motor to invest $450 million in new Thai plant


Stock futures dip on Fed comments
June 24, 2010 08:00 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures slipped on Thursday as the Federal Reserve underscored worries the recovery was not as robust as hoped and ahead of weekly initial jobless claims data.

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Wall Street reform bill goes into final hours
June 24, 2010 07:42 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the historic overhaul of U.S. financial rules nearly complete, lawmakers have waited until the final, frantic hours to sort out the most controversial provisions in the bill.

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Jobless claims drop 19,000 last week
June 24, 2010 08:33 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance fell slightly more than expected last week, offering hope the fragile economic recovery remained intact.

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Apple mania unabated as fans scramble for iPhone 4
June 24, 2010 07:29 AM ET
PARIS/TOKYO (Reuters) - Apple fans queued overnight in their hundreds outside stores in Europe and Japan to snap up the latest iPhone, as the technology giant set a new benchmark in the hard-fought and fast-growing smartphone market.

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Europe digs in on budget austerity ahead of G20
June 24, 2010 07:53 AM ET
FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - European policymakers defended budget austerity plans on Thursday ahead of a G20 summit set to pit calls for fiscal restraint against warnings that heavy cost-cutting threatens recovery.

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Lennar posts profit but orders down 10 percent
June 24, 2010 08:13 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homebuilder Lennar Corp reported a quarterly profit versus a year-ago loss, but orders fell and its shares were down 1.6 percent in premarket trading.

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Feinberg to quit pay czar post to focus on BP fund
June 23, 2010 07:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kenneth Feinberg will step down from his role as Treasury's "pay car" later this summer to focus on administering the BP Plc's $20 billion oil spill fund, a Treasury spokesman said on Wednesday.

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Lawmakers renew focus on China after yuan stalls
June 24, 2010 08:35 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators said on Wednesday they were unmoved by China's steps to partly free the yuan and vowed to push forward legislation to punish a Chinese currency misalignment they say distorts trade and steals jobs.

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Providence Equity in talks with Hasbro: report
June 23, 2010 11:06 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Providence Equity Partners is in preliminary talks with toy maker Hasbro Inc to take the company private in a leveraged buyout, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the situation.

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Ford Motor to invest $450 million in new Thai plant
June 23, 2010 11:13 PM ET
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co plans to invest $450 million to build a new manufacturing plant in Thailand, with the bulk of the output destined for export markets as part of its expansion in Asia Pacific.

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