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Stocks struggle amid earnings news
Wall Street was struggling Monday as investors, pleased with first-quarter earnings
but still worried about interest rates, refrained from making any major investments in
the market.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
New-home sales surged in March
Sales of new homes surged by 8.9 percent in March, the largest monthly increase in
nine months, as mortgage rates bottomed out before starting to ascend.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4836608/
Boeing announces launch order for 7E7
The Boeing Co. board of directors has approved production of the 7E7 Dreamliner with a
company-record launch order of 50 planes by All Nippon Airways, the manufacturer and
carrier announced Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4835762/
Comcast considers dropping Disney bid
Comcast is weighing up whether to withdraw its $58 billion hostile bid for Walt Disney
as the U.S. cable company's hopes of forcing the embattled media group to the
negotiating table fade.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4836696/
Now the $50 bill gets a colorful makeover
The $50 bill is getting colorized, the second of the nation's paper currencies to
sport new hues beyond the traditional black-ink fronts and green-ink backs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4835767/
Benefits firm settles drug-switching claim
Medco, the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager, will pay $29 million to settle
allegations that it had doctors switch patients' medications so it could receive large
rebates.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4837889/
EU ready to end ban on modified food
The European Union paved the way to approve a genetically modified variety of corn for
sale in supermarkets, ending a five-year ban on such food.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4837441/
Head of Japan's Mitsubishi Motors resigns
Rolf Eckrodt has resigned as chief executive of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., a
DaimlerChrysler spokesman said Monday, in the wake of last week's decision by the
German automaker not to invest more money in its troubled Japanese partner.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4835764/
Computer Associates restates results
Struggling with an accounting scandal that forced its chief executive to resign,
Computer Associates International Inc. said Monday it is restating financial results
for 2000 and 2001 and confirmed it named Kenneth Cron interim chief executive.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4836872/
Iraq restarts oil exports after Basra attack
Iraq has resumed oil exports from the Basra terminal just a day after suicide attacks
forced operations to halt, Oil Minister Mohammad Bahr al-Uloum said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4835773/
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