Reuters: Factories in China and India upped production last month.
Reuters: Asian stocks hit and 11 month high.
Reuters: General Growth filed a plan to exit bankruptcy.
Reuters: Reviews praised the Apple (AAPL) iPad for battery life and ease of use.
Reuters: CEO pay moved lower in 2009.
Reuters: Publishers are basing their future on an iPad they have not seen.
WSJ: The iPad is close to being a laptop killer.
WSJ: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York began to show the toxic assets it bought from Bear Stearns and others.
WSJ: Cash poor cities are taking on their unions.
WSJ: The crisis has left many corporate pension funds short of cash and companies will have trouble funding them.
WSJ: Amazon’s (AMZN) e-book deal mirrors that of the iPad.
WSJ: The business mode in Japan improved.
WSJ: RIM (RIMM) missed estimates.
WSJ: Good news on crop yields hurt prices.
WSJ: Acer will focus on China and Brazil.
WSJ: Bond markets are open but stocks closed on Good Friday when the jobs report hits.
WSJ: Germany and France both plan bank taxes.
WSJ: Hartford repaid $3.4 billion in TARP aid.
WSJ: Getting money for start-ups was better than last year, but not by much.
WSJ: Jet Blue (JBLU) and AMR (AMR) formed an alliance.
WSJ: Boeing (BA) will book $150 million in health care charges.
WSJ: CBS (CBS) and ABC plan to stream shows to the iPad.
NYT: The top 25 hedge fund managers were paid an average of $1 billion each last year.
NYT: The head for Pfizer (PFE) said health care reform and new drugs would help the firm’s growth.
NYT: The Fed ended its purchase of mortgage-backed securities.
NYT: The release of the UBS (UBS) client list is closer with the aid of the Swiss government.
NYT: Issues over Greece hiding its true deficit continue to cause friction.
FT: Carmakers said a new deal on steel pricing created a monopoly.
FT: Jaime Dimon of JPMorgan (JPM) attacked the massive criticism of big banks.
FT: The Air Force will extend the deadline for bids on its tanker.
FT: VC firm Kleiner Perkins put aside $100 million for investment in companies that build iPad apps.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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