Reuters: Stocks fell in Asia and Europe as the pound and euro fell.
Reuters: The GOP’s attempt to kill a consumer watchdog program was not successful.
Reuters: The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) is in settlement talks with the SEC.
Reuters: Nasdaq named stocks on which it will cancel trades.
Reuters: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) fired The Goldman Sachs Group as its main adviser.
Reuters: Oil is down $10 in the last week.
Reuters: Oil lobbying money is unlikely to help BP plc (NYSE: BP)
Reuters: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) chips will be in a growing number of computers this summer.
Reuters: Blackstone, THL, and TPG will try to buy Fidelity National Information Service Inc (NYSE: FIS)
WSJ: The Minerals and Management Service was lax in regulating the oil industry.
WSJ: A number of high frequency trading firms stopped activity as the market plunged.
WSJ: Goldman Sachs and the SEC are in settlement talks.
WSJ: The plan to audit the Fed was killed in the Senate.
WSJ: The Greek parliament approved a bailout.
WSJ: Simon Property Group Inc upped its bid for General Growth Properties Inc.
WSJ: The Fed will sell some of its $1.1 trillion in mortgage holdings.
WSJ: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said that Deloitte had missed some details in audits.
WSJ: MGM posted a huge loss as it wrote down the value of its holdings in the CityCenter resort.
WSJ: Friends of the car industry attacked a bill on auto safety.
WSJ: The VIX hit a 2010 high.
WSJ: A high-speed trading glitch cost investors billions.
WSJ: Loans at high risk made in foreign currencies are exposed by problems in Eastern Europe.
WSJ: China’s use of oil and coal jumped 24% in Q1.
WSJ: AIG dismissed Goldman as its adviser.
FT: The Bank of Japan put huge amounts of money into the system to increase liquidity as market fell.
FT: Immelt of GE joined Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) in backing Wall St.
Bloomberg: The supply of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPads in its stores is falling sharply.
Bloomberg: Calpers voted to split the chairman and CEO jobs at Goldman.
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