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Stocks end flat after recent run of gains
Wall Street closed Monday�?Ts lackluster session barely changed, as investors
took profits from a nine-session rally even as crude oil prices continued to
ease from recent record highs.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
What will ground the airlines?
U.S. airlines are choking to death. The industry will have losses of more than
$4 billion for 2004, bringing total losses since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks to a staggering $25 billion. High oil prices are only partially to
blame.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6434883/
Microsoft to pay Novell $536 million
Clearing more legal challenges, Microsoft Corp. announced important settlements
Monday with rival Novell Inc. for $536 million and with a Washington-based
trade organization that had aggressively backed landmark antitrust cases
against Microsoft by the U.S. government and European Union.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6435103/
Oil prices resume slide
Crude futures prices fell Monday, briefly sinking below $49 a barrel, as the
U.S. supply of oil grows and traders said institutional investors shifted their
capital from commodities to equities.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5612507/
Report: 9/11 victims received $38.1 billion
Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks received $38.1 billion in compensation, with
insurance companies picking up the largest portion of the tab, according to a
study released Monday.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6435263/
FT: News Corp plans for poison pill
News Corp announced Monday plans for a poison pill rights issue to prevent a
hostile takeover by potential predators such as Liberty Media, one of the
company's largest shareholders.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6436286/
NASD charges H&R Block with fraud
H&R Block Inc.�?Ts financial advisors unit was charged with fraud by the NASD
for misrepresenting the risks to investors of bonds from Enron Corp.� before
the energy trader sank into bankruptcy.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6435891/
Ex-Enron CEO Skilling seeks to move trial
Lawyers for former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling asked a federal
court to move his trial out of Houston, arguing in a filing Monday that any
jury in Enron's hometown would be biased.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6436953/
Greenback not accepted at Cuban businesses
After a decade as the dominant currency to buy everything from shampoo to
canned food to furniture, the U.S. dollar is no longer accepted in Cuba as of
Monday.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6436840/
Pfizer probed by New York, Connecticut
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc.� is under investigation by state attorneys general from
New York and Connecticut in connection with improper promotion of drugs for
uses other than those approved by U.S. regulators, Pfizer said in a regulatory
filing.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6434907/
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