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AP Business Headlines
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) -- Hasbro Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit slipped 1 percent, pinched by softer-than-expected demand in the U.S. and Canada and slow sales of games and puzzles....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between....
LONDON (AP) -- Markets were in a jittery mood on Monday as talks dragged on between Greek political leaders over a fresh austerity package that is required if the debt-ridden country is to get a crucial bailout package....
PARIS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy says France and Germany agree that Greece should place state revenues into a separate fund to pay down its crushing debt and avoid bankruptcy....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Parties backing Greece's coalition government will hold a second day of emergency talks Monday on a vital austerity deal with rescue creditors, after an intense weekend of negotiations failed to produce a breakthrough needed to avert bankruptcy in March....
      
Wall Street Journal Headlines
The auto maker is expected to report 2011 net income of more than $8 billion and has set its sights on a once-unthinkable goal: make more than $10 billion a year.
A financial turnaround at Las Vegas Sands Corp. is beginning to pay off for chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson, who during the financial crisis put $1 billion of his own money into the struggling casino operator.
A deal with a German meteorology institute to sponsor a weather system backfired on BMW's Mini brand, after the "Cooper" cold front brought arctic temperatures, icy winds and dozens of deaths to much of Europe.
State-run entities that expanded over the past decade to provide affordable homeowners insurance in hurricane-threatened Florida are in danger of becoming so big they threaten to wreak havoc on the local economy.
Farmers and analysts are expressing fresh skepticism about Agriculture Department data on the corn market in the wake of the latest figures, which stunned traders and sent prices on another wild ride.
      
CNNMoney Headlines
U.S. stocks were set for a weak open Monday as investors anxiously await a Greek government decision on budget cuts key to securing a second bailout and avoiding default.
To form a strong fiscal union and return confidence to the euro, eurozone members must be willing to give up some degree of control of their national budgets to a central European authority.
States have until late Monday to agree to the latest draft deal aimed at relieving homeowners struggling with mortgages bigger than their home's value.
Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, HTC had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse.
      
NY Times Business Headlines
After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.

Potential support from California and New York would come in exchange for tightening provisions in order to preserve the right to investigate past misdeeds by the banks, and stepping up oversight.

The Daily has struggled to break into the national conversation or to drive news and build on its brand the way traditional outlets do.

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

The Human Rights Campaign has recruited Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs to be its first national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage.

      
USA Today Business Headlines
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This year's earlier-than-usual gas-price run-up is more about anticipation than current supply and demand.


Wall Street is enjoying its biggest early-year stock market surge since 1987 amid a sharp drop in the unemployment rate.


Manufacturing's healthy job gains last month might mean more good news ahead


Hospitals are using patients' health and financial records to pitch lucrative services, such as cancer, heart and orthopedic care.


      
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