Reuters: China has approached a Canadian fund about a rival bid for Potash (NYSE: POT)
Reuters: The cost of Gulf clean-up hit $8 billion.
Reuters: China said that its $2.45 trillion currency holdings was mostly in dollars and said it may have to depreciate part of the value of the fund.
Reuters: The White House said that no second stimulus is being considered.
Reuters: One Senator said food safety was a priority for the body.
Reuters: Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) is preparing a music download business to compete with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).
Reuters: Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) may get new growth due to its relationship with Apple.
Reuters: Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will offer prepaid options for cellphones.
Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) won the bidding for 3PAR (NYSE: PAR) and paid $2.4 billion, topping a bid by Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL).
WSJ: Toshiba will launch a new tablet PC.
WSJ: Roche has created a cost-cutting plan.
WSJ: The Treasury must decide how many large foreign investors it will allow to put money into GM.
WSJ: Retailers had a modest uptick in August sales.
WSJ: Workers carried a bigger burden of healthcare costs last year.
WSJ: Samsung launched an Apple Inc iPad rival.
WSJ: Aol (NYSE: AOL) widened its relationship with Google Inc.
WSJ: Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) started an app store.
WSJ: The European Central Bank raised its growth forecasts for the year.
WSJ: 3G Capital Management bought Burger King (NYSE: BKC) for $3.3 billion.
WSJ: GM, Ford Motor (NYSE: F) and Toyota (NYSE: TM) posted sales gains in China.
WSJ: Avis (NYSE: CAR) raised its bid for Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG).
WSJ: Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWC) reached a deal on content carriage fees.
WSJ: Average mortgage rates hit another new low.
NYT: BP plc says limits on Gulf drilling will hurt its oil spill payouts.
NYT: Google’s YouTube should bring in $450 million in revenue this year, most of which will be from advertising.
NYT: A strong yen has helped German exports.
NYT: Theong yen will cripple Toyota Motor profits.
NYT: Putin extended a ban on grain exports.
FT: There is growing anxiety about food shortages around the world.
FT: Foreign companies are up against unreasonable rules in China, according to the European Chamber of Commerce.
Bloomberg: The EU may limits naked shorting and shorting of government debt.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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