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Business
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Dow Jones industrials edge up
Investors, largely pleased with reports on consumer sentiment and spending, sent
blue-chip stocks higher Friday, extending the previous session's rally, at least
temporarily fending off the temptation to gather profits.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
Consumer spending barely budges
Consumers, a key force shaping the economic recovery, were more restrained in
February, increasing their spending by only 0.2 percent.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4607555/
Consumer sentiment up a tad in March
U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March but job worries still prevented
Americans from feeling too cheery about the economy, a survey released on Friday
showed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4608283/
U.S. gasoline prices keep rising
Weekend motorists take note: U.S. retail gasoline prices hit a record for the fourth
day in a row in a daily survey of pump prices by the American Automobile Association,
the AAA said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4607907/
Tyco jurors break for the weekend
The judge in the corporate-looting trial of two former Tyco International Ltd.
executives sent jurors home for the weekend Friday after the panelists reported their
deliberations were "irreparably compromised" by infighting.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4601380/
Kerry seeks big corporate tax change
John Kerry called Friday for the broadest changes in international corporate tax law
in 40 years, proposing to cut corporate taxes and kill loopholes that push jobs
overseas.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4607445/
Parmalat to slash jobs, exit 20 countries
Parmalat said on Friday it planned to slash its workforce by nearly half as it sells
or liquidates operations in 20 different countries to try and stem the deep losses
which drove it into insolvency.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4608500/
U.S. air travel forecast to finally grow in 2004
Passenger traffic aboard the struggling network U.S. airlines is expected to grow this
year for the first time since 2000, according to government data released on Thursday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4607299/
Sainsbury selling U.S. stores to Albertsons
J Sainsbury Plc is selling its U.S. stores to Albertsons Inc. for $2.5 billion as it
fights a price war which Britain's third-biggest grocer says will hit profits this
year and next.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4607302/
Answer Desk: What makes GDP grow?
Thursday's report that the U.S. economy grew at 4.1 percent in the last three months
of 2003 has Sam in Chicago wondering: what, exactly, makes GDP grow? Meanwhile, Andrew
in Florida has asked the Answer Desk for a stock market forecast. (OK -- just this
once -- we'll go out on a limb.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3403854/
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