Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1885 business Business en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:58:34 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1885 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_column_stocks_outlook nm/20091122/us_column_stocks_outlook Reuters business Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:58:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_column_stocks_outlook"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258825577275-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=7mvn0Gk_mvkpY9PbOMMQlw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange moments before the closing bell on November 5 in New York City. Key housing sector data may provide direction for Wall Street in the coming week as the market looks for confirmation of economic recovery and girds for the year-end holiday period.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. stocks could sputter this week as volumes dry up in holiday-shortened trading and with a slew of economic reports likely to illustrate the recovery is still fragile.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_column_stocks_outlook"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258825577275-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=7mvn0Gk_mvkpY9PbOMMQlw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange moments before the closing bell on November 5 in New York City. Key housing sector data may provide direction for Wall Street in the coming week as the market looks for confirmation of economic recovery and girds for the year-end holiday period.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_cadbury_hershey nm/20091122/us_cadbury_hershey Reuters business Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:34:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_cadbury_hershey"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r3015058461.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=joIqUZa9LokTNVAg8rLwTw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Cadbury's chocolate bars are seen in a shop in London September 7, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Cadbury Plc would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co rather than Kraft Foods Inc , the British company's chairman Roger Carr told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_cadbury_hershey"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r3015058461.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=joIqUZa9LokTNVAg8rLwTw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Cadbury's chocolate bars are seen in a shop in London September 7, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_nestle_cadbury nm/20091122/us_nestle_cadbury Reuters business Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_nestle_cadbury"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r124902121.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=iqEiFoIGR1iqUv8cVD_yXQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Chocolate bars are pictured in the employees' supermarket at the Nestle headquarters in Vevey February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Swiss food giant Nestle may consider a bid for Britain's Cadbury to challenge a hostile 9.9 billion pound ($16.3 dollars) bid by Kraft Foods Inc and a potential move by Hershey , Bloomberg reported on Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_nestle_cadbury"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r124902121.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=iqEiFoIGR1iqUv8cVD_yXQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chocolate bars are pictured in the employees' supermarket at the Nestle headquarters in Vevey February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_india_pm_dollar nm/20091122/us_india_pm_dollar Reuters business Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:53:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_india_pm_dollar"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r1603518447.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=lHRysvu72fEla63yrqswhQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during the three-day long India Economic Summit 2009 at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi November 8, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday there was no substitute to the U.S. dollar for replacement as the global reserve currency.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/bs_nm/us_india_pm_dollar"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r1603518447.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=lHRysvu72fEla63yrqswhQ--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during the three-day long India Economic Summit 2009 at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi November 8, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/bs_nm/us_nortel_ciena nm/20091121/us_nortel_ciena Reuters business Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:53:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/bs_nm/us_nortel_ciena"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/i/r2770735586.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=icwb7G__vXu8u.S_2BokPA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A sign is pictured outside Nortel's Carling Campus in Ottawa August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Blair Gable" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The auction for Nortel Network's optical networking and carrier ethernet business went into a second day on Saturday, after Ciena called for a break in the auction late on Friday, two sources said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/bs_nm/us_nortel_ciena"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/i/r2770735586.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=icwb7G__vXu8u.S_2BokPA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A sign is pictured outside Nortel's Carling Campus in Ottawa August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Blair Gable" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_bi_ge/us_sec_hedge_fund_probe ap/20091120/us_sec_hedge_fund_probe AP business Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:54 GMT AP - A new development related to the government's investigation of possible insider trading at a major hedge fund has raised questions in the case and caught the attention of two key senators. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_bi_ge/us_mortgage_closing_new_hampshire ap/20091120/us_mortgage_closing_new_hampshire AP business Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:59:36 GMT AP - The New Hampshire attorney general's office wants to force a mortgage company that closed suddenly into bankruptcy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_bi_ge/us_attorney_general_ratings_agencies ap/20091120/us_attorney_general_ratings_agencies AP business Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:07:21 GMT AP - The three major credit ratings agencies gave mortgage-backed securities unjustifiably high ratings in return for lucrative fees, losing at least $457 million for five Ohio public employee pension and retirement funds, the state's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091122/bs_afp/useconomyfinanceretailholiday afp/20091122/useconomyfinanceretailholiday AFP business Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:32:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091122/bs_afp/useconomyfinanceretailholiday"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091122/capt.photo_1258863904822-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gLxjXTdoSG_jnhb87mLCzw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A father and child stop to look at the Christmas display at Macy's department store in New York. US retailers are taking desperate measures to spark holiday sales in the face of what promises to be another troubled year-end shopping season.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US retailers are taking desperate measures to spark holiday sales in the face of what promises to be another troubled year-end shopping season.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091122/bs_afp/useconomyfinanceretailholiday"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091122/capt.photo_1258863904822-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gLxjXTdoSG_jnhb87mLCzw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A father and child stop to look at the Christmas display at Macy's department store in New York. US retailers are taking desperate measures to spark holiday sales in the face of what promises to be another troubled year-end shopping season.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)