Reuters: The White House budget director will leave.
Reuters: China’s state-owned banks are buying dollars.
Reuters: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and the FTC are in talks to settle a market abuse case.
Reuters: Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) cut e-reader prices.Reuters: Retailers have begun to take orders for the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) Kinect for $149.99.
Reuters: Connecticut is leading a multi-state investigation into how Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) wound up getting personal data from WiFi networks when it was creating Google Maps’ Street View feature.
Reuters: Reuters: Drugmaker Biovail plans to buy Valeant in $3.3 billion deal
Reuters: BA cut a deal to fund its pension fund to close its merger with Iberia.
WSJ: A battle at the G20 will put the US’s desire for stimulus spending against the EU’s plans for austerity.
WSJ: Several firms are in a race to build the next search engine to compete against Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG).
WSJ: The FCC is in talks with phone and cable companies about new internet rules.
WSJ: Regulators found cracks in Boeing (NYSE: BA) 767s.
WSJ: A drilling ban is hurting Louisiana’s economy.
WSJ: Another Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) plant in China was closed by labor unrest.
WSJ: Target (NYSE: TGT) will offer 5% discounts to its credit card holders who buy in its stores.
NYT: A Times poll found many people unhappy about Obama’s response to unemployment and the Gulf oil spill.
NYT: Companies that export to China should be helped by the nation’s action on the yuan.
FT: The Fed said pay plans for banks are insufficient to cut risk.
FT: Funds in the Middle East are putting money into the AgBank IPO.
Bloomberg: A UK austerity plan may increase economic growth
Bloomberg: Japan said it will balance its budget by 2020.
Bloomberg: China is replacing workers with machines as employment costs rise.
Bloomberg: Samsung plans to double its cellphone market share.
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