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04/16

China says U.S. complaint won't solve piracy Reuters via Washington Post

Business Outlook Survey pdf Bank of Canada

Pay-back time The Economist

Apple's Steve Jobs maintains $1 salary AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer / May Wong

Taking account of Intel's inventories Marketwatch / Matt Andrejczak

AT&T Out of Telecom Italia Stake Talks AP via Forbes / Colleen Barry

Home Depot Thinks Smaller to Tap $30 Billion in Sales Bloomberg / Mark Clothier

How Unstoppable Is Google? Forbes / Rachel Rosmarin and Michele Steele

Billionaire Al-Sanea Bets On HSBC Forbes / Parmy Olson

Oil prices waffle in volatile trading AP via Beaufort Gazette / Stan Choe

The US Dollar and Chinas Impending Recession, Part I Brookes News via Safehaven / Gerard Jackson

Two-dollar pound looms Guardian / Katie Allen and Ashley Seager

A wing-clipped hawk The Economist

Northern Trust expected to post solid first-quarter gains Chicago Tribune / James P. Miller

Restructuring Cuts Citi's 1Q Profit AP via Newsday / Eileen Alt Powell

IL: Chicago insider named head of ABN Amro's North American unit Chicago Tribune / Becky Yerak

U.S. 2-Year Note Yields Hold Above 10-Year on Fed Rate-Cut Bets Bloomberg / Wes Goodman

Stocks Rise Amid Profit, Economic News AP via Newsday / Tim Paradis

California foreclosures near record levels LA Times / David Streitfeld

Pound touches 14-year dollar high BBC News

TREASURIES-Bonds rise after weak housing gauge Reuters / Burton Frierson

Fixed-Income ETFs Shine as Bond Market Gets Attractive Smartmoney.com / Jonathan Hoenig

Sallie Mae's Just The Latest Forbes / Liz Moyer

Post-G7 pullback for Japan's yen Marketwatch / Wanfeng Zhou

Fiscal Issues: From Here to Eternity Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas / Richard W. Fisher

Fed's Fisher - bad fiscal policy pressures the Fed Reuters

Monday’s Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard

Well, that was quick Marketwatch / Mark Hulbert

U.S. Stocks Rise on Takeovers, Earnings; SLM, Citigroup Advance Bloomberg / Michael Patterson

Gold rises, boosted by falling dollar Marketwatch / Polya Lesova

Water crisis looms worldwide FT via LA Times / Leslie Crawford

Price Stability and Social Welfare Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia / Charles I. Plosser

Fed's Plosser lauds benefits of inflation targets Reuters

Retail Sales Climb 0.7 Percent in March AP via Forbes / Martin Crutsinger

Wachovia 1Q Profit Up 33 Pct. to $2.30B AP via Newsday / Ieva M. Augstums

Citigroup 1Q Earnings Decline 11 Percent AP via Forbes / Eileen Alt Powell

Brought To You By Goople Forbes / Rachel Rosmarin

Opec softens tone on oil supply FT / Carola Hoyos

Dollar steady vs euro as weak Empire offsets solid retail sales data AFX via Forbes

NYBOT traders to CBOT: Ice the offer NY Post / Zachery Kouwe

Subprime Mess Produces Unqualified Victims Bloomberg / Michael Lewis

Greenspan Says Global Growth to Cushion U.S. Economy Bloomberg / Jason Clenfield

Gold jumps, but bugs still suspicious Marketwatch / Peter Brimelow

Oil prices flat in Asian trading AP via Bradenton Journal

I.R.S. Audits Middle Class More Often, More Quickly NY Times / David Cay Johnston

Unpaid Taxes Tough to Recover Washington Post / Lori Montgomery

Negotiators Say Sallie Mae to Be Sold for $25 Billion NY Times / Andrew Ross Sorkin and Jennifer Lee

Barclays CEO Varley, in Bid for ABN Amro, May See Tables Turned Bloomberg / Jon Menon and Ben Livesey

G-7 Grow Confident Trade Gaps Are Narrowing as Growth Continues Bloomberg / Simon Kennedy and Kevin Carmichael

Treasury Curve May Turn Positive; Investors Favor 2s Over 10s Bloomberg / Deborah Finestone

Treasury Yields Hold Near Two-Month High on Inflation Concern Bloomberg / Wes Goodman

Barclays races to seal ABN Amro deal Guardian / Jill Treanor

Euro Rises to Record Versus Yen; G-7 Currency Policy Unchanged Bloomberg / Kosuke Goto and David McIntyre

What Grows $1 Million a Minute? China's Reserves Bloomberg / William Pesek

Even as US tax rates drop, government's reach grows Christian Science Monitor / Mark Trumbull

Japan's Savers May Be Ready to Spend, Keeping Economy Growing Bloomberg / Jason Clenfield

04/17

Subprime loans can't be easily rewritten: FDIC Marketwatch / Rex Nutting

Fannie Mae to Unveil Plan to Help Strapped Homeowners Washington Post / Dina ElBoghdady

SEC talks, but doesn't act on mutual-fund fee problem St. Louis Post Dispatch / David Nicklaus

Celebrity Gasbags Daily Standard / Irwin M. Stelzer

Washington Mutual earnings fall 20% on home-loan slump AP via Seattle Times

Mortgage insurance gaining steam Marketwatch / Amy Hoak

Open-and-shut case Marketwatch / Thomas Kostigen

Intel 1Q Profit Surges 19 Percent AP via LA Times / Jordan Robertson

IBM profit up 8% on services, software Marketwatch / Rex Crum

Dow closes just shy of record high CNN / Alexandra Twin

Fund strategies on both sides now Denver Post / Will Shanley

CA: Foreclosures in full boom Sacramento Bee / Jim Wasserman

Building up, but housing woes far from over CNN / Chris Isidore

Housing Slump Takes a Toll on Illegal Immigrants NY Times / Eduardo Porter

Treasurys rally after tame inflation, factory data Marketwatch / Leslie Wines

ASF, SIFMA Testify On Issues Related to the Subprime Mortgage Market Bond Market Association

Stocks Gain Traction After Rocky Start Investors Business Daily / Vincent Mao

Tuesday’s Stocktiming.com Analysis Stocktiming.com / Marty Chenard

Money losers Fortune via CNN

Expensive defensive stocks $ FT / Lex

Forget Antitrust. Google's DoubleClick Deal Makes Sense Smartmoney.com / James B. Stewart

Copper futures climb near its highest level in a year Marketwatch / Myra P. Saefong & Polya Lesova

Making sense of the mortgage mess Business Week via MSNBC / Mara Der Hovanesian, Peter Coy, Matthew Goldstein, and David Henry

U.S. housing starts rose 0.8 percent in March Reuters

Food for thought Marketwatch / Dr. Irwin Kellner

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