Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/recommended/business Most Recommended Business en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:24 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/recommended/business http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_iran ap/20100209/us_obama_iran AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:45:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bb69adc425844367a856902cc779bcc2.aptopix_obama__dcsa103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VeqvRIfap_ntNoGNHqkTkA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama listens while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Iran remains on an "unacceptable" path to nuclear weapons, despite its denials, and that the U.S. and like-minded countries will soon produce a set of punishing sanctions against the Islamic republic.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bb69adc425844367a856902cc779bcc2.aptopix_obama__dcsa103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VeqvRIfap_ntNoGNHqkTkA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama listens while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/toyota_recall ap/20100210/toyota_recall AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:58:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/toyota_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a34a8a8911f445c09479da1f4f232350.japan_toyota_recall_tok104.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=11OK7RB3B9R8O_WVDUbk3A--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="In this June 5, 2009 photo, workers give the final check on newly assembled new 2010 Prius hybrid vehicles at Toyota Tsutsumi Plant in Toyota, central Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. Toyota president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at the automaker's Tokyo office later Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 to outline details of the braking problem, including plans for a possible recall in the U.S., a company official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/toyota_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a34a8a8911f445c09479da1f4f232350.japan_toyota_recall_tok104.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=11OK7RB3B9R8O_WVDUbk3A--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this June 5, 2009 photo, workers give the final check on newly assembled new 2010 Prius hybrid vehicles at Toyota Tsutsumi Plant in Toyota, central Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. Toyota president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at the automaker's Tokyo office later Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 to outline details of the braking problem, including plans for a possible recall in the U.S., a company official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_bipartisanship ap/20100210/us_obama_bipartisanship AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:09:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_bipartisanship"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d9c5f1a995ea4a12b64337c259be81bb.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm112.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=vSsfLSOLHhDTihR54dGOmQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, looks on as House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - Partisanship is reaching new heights in Washington, even as President Barack Obama makes almost daily pleas to get along. He's scheduled a bipartisan health care summit, and just Tuesday he hosted GOP leaders at the White House for the first time in two months.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_bipartisanship"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d9c5f1a995ea4a12b64337c259be81bb.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm112.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=vSsfLSOLHhDTihR54dGOmQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, looks on as House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_toyota_recall_us ap/20100209/us_toyota_recall_us AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:13:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_toyota_recall_us"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r938856496.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=fnzZF4c.tczzla0QdtYt4g--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="A Toyota Prius' badge is pictured on a car at a Toyota dealership in west London February 9, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling nearly half a million of its flagship Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems as it seeks to address criticism over the handling of its worst safety crisis. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)" border="0" /></a>AP - The nation's largest auto insurer said Tuesday it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_toyota_recall_us"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r938856496.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=fnzZF4c.tczzla0QdtYt4g--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="photo" title="A Toyota Prius' badge is pictured on a car at a Toyota dealership in west London February 9, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling nearly half a million of its flagship Prius and other hybrid cars for braking problems as it seeks to address criticism over the handling of its worst safety crisis. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_power_plant_explosion ap/20100209/us_power_plant_explosion AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_power_plant_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.508ca9d6ec69434c81aaca7cf790e5e5.aptopix_middletown_explosion_lon104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gbvBcgH..fZcMl005NC1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by Casey Casserino, the Kleen Energy plant on River Road in Middletown, Conn., is seen Sunday Feb. 7, 2010. An explosion blew apart the power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes miles away, officials said. (AP Photo / Casey Casserino) MANDATORY CREDIT" border="0" /></a>AP - Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week there before the blast killed five Sunday, The Associated Press has learned. One employee said workers smelled gas less than an hour beforehand and were told to open doors wider for air.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_power_plant_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.508ca9d6ec69434c81aaca7cf790e5e5.aptopix_middletown_explosion_lon104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gbvBcgH..fZcMl005NC1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by Casey Casserino, the Kleen Energy plant on River Road in Middletown, Conn., is seen Sunday Feb. 7, 2010. An explosion blew apart the power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes miles away, officials said. (AP Photo / Casey Casserino) MANDATORY CREDIT" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_europe_financial_crisis ap/20100209/eu_europe_financial_crisis AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:15:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_europe_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wealthy European nations were moving closer toward swallowing a bitter pill Tuesday: rescuing Greece from its overspending before its debts drag down the euro and stock markets all the way to Wall Street.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_europe_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.4a71400196304a0aa60a9e8b7df8e3a0.wall_street_ath202.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=t0W81imakNVSy4X6RWeHZQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Stocks traded mixed Monday as investors remained wary about the strength of the economic recovery and mounting debt in Europe. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_senate_nlrb ap/20100209/us_senate_nlrb AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:36:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_senate_nlrb"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.6dd10d93949144fb95562f179027211c.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm111.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=tPyaiBGkHaFf1_W7o5A_dw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate Democrats on Tuesday failed to push through President Barack Obama's choice of a union lawyer to serve on the National Labor Relations Board after two of their own joined Republicans to block the nomination.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_senate_nlrb"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.6dd10d93949144fb95562f179027211c.obama_bipartisanship_dcpm111.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=tPyaiBGkHaFf1_W7o5A_dw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President Barack Obama and bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate to discuss the economy and jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20100210/us_health_care_overhaul AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.c1410de9c8464a3ea431ff07148b1b3b.obama__dcsa105.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=EFz9GRrSB0l3WShxlUYgbQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama gestures while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>AP - Signaling he'd meet critics part way on health care, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's willing to sign a bill even if it doesn't deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a dismal failure.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.c1410de9c8464a3ea431ff07148b1b3b.obama__dcsa105.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=EFz9GRrSB0l3WShxlUYgbQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama gestures while conducting the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the White House press briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_germany_economy ap/20100209/eu_germany_economy AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_germany_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.e5fb13f1fffe42dc96ed2bed71d856b6.germany_economy_mfra101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=a7HR4SI3MjQUTgbsungYcA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="FILE - In this June 3, 2009 file photo containers are loaded at a terminal of the 'Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG' (HHLA) in the harbor of Hamburg, northern Germany. German exports tumbled by nearly one-fifth last year, the biggest fall for 60 years and one that officially knocked the country off its perch as the world's top exporter, government data showed Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Germany's multi-year reign as the world's No. 1 exporter is officially over, with the crown formally passing to rising Asian power China after new figures showed that German exports slid by nearly a fifth in 2009, the biggest decline in 60 years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_germany_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.e5fb13f1fffe42dc96ed2bed71d856b6.germany_economy_mfra101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=a7HR4SI3MjQUTgbsungYcA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this June 3, 2009 file photo containers are loaded at a terminal of the 'Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG' (HHLA) in the harbor of Hamburg, northern Germany. German exports tumbled by nearly one-fifth last year, the biggest fall for 60 years and one that officially knocked the country off its perch as the world's top exporter, government data showed Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_toyota_corolla ap/20100209/us_toyota_corolla AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:54:51 GMT AP - Federal safety officials say they will look into complaints from Toyota Corolla drivers about difficulty with the steering on their vehicles. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_health_care ap/20100209/us_obama_health_care AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:04:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_health_care"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.fd2240bbf3bd4c4ea23535abefd0ebab.obama_whcd119.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=2ndFXAneAwFL69.pVb_2qA--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="President Barack Obama speaks at a Black History Month event celebrating the music of the Civil Rights Movement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama's says he's willing to start from scratch on health care &mdash; as long as the final bill meets his goals.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_health_care"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.fd2240bbf3bd4c4ea23535abefd0ebab.obama_whcd119.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=2ndFXAneAwFL69.pVb_2qA--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama speaks at a Black History Month event celebrating the music of the Civil Rights Movement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_toyota_camry nm/20100209/us_toyota_camry Reuters business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:00:02 GMT Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) will recall 7,314 model-year 2010 Camry sedans in the United States due to the risk that a potential defect in steering may make it harder for drivers to stop the vehicle. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_jobs_package ap/20100209/us_obama_jobs_package AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:49:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_jobs_package"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.61775ddc1f0c42a995cd81f97226fe4e.obama_whcd111.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=KpuyplG5C6Jc0gHhyTMjOg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question as he makes an unannounced visit to the James Brady Briefing Room for the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama says he doesn't think it's necessary to get an ideal jobs package out of Congress, but that passing something quickly could build momentum toward greater achievements.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_jobs_package"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.61775ddc1f0c42a995cd81f97226fe4e.obama_whcd111.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=KpuyplG5C6Jc0gHhyTMjOg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama listens to a reporter's question as he makes an unannounced visit to the James Brady Briefing Room for the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_toyota_specialreport nm/20100209/us_toyota_specialreport Reuters topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:28:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_toyota_specialreport"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r1057255698.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=qn84ijPWYqSbxMJphKUa.Q--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Toyota service technician Tony Saelee holds up a reinforcement bar in Daly City, California in this February 4, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp, the world's most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on taxpayer-funded life support.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_toyota_specialreport"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r1057255698.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=qn84ijPWYqSbxMJphKUa.Q--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Toyota service technician Tony Saelee holds up a reinforcement bar in Daly City, California in this February 4, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wall_street ap/20100209/us_wall_street AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:09:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wall_street"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bc0ec2de4bef41e5b018b3c7984420e5.wall_street_nyrd104.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=oLXrd2asgfNo0_UdX1UN7Q--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Traders Robert Maher, left, and Anthony Alvarino work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Dow Jones industrial average jumped back above 10,000 on hope that a resolution was near for Greece's debt crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wall_street"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.bc0ec2de4bef41e5b018b3c7984420e5.wall_street_nyrd104.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=oLXrd2asgfNo0_UdX1UN7Q--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="Traders Robert Maher, left, and Anthony Alvarino work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_crib_recall ap/20100209/us_crib_recall AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:35 GMT AP - Government safety officials Tuesday announced a recall of more than 500,000 drop-side cribs sold at Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of three infants. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_airlines_american ap/20100209/as_japan_airlines_american AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:50:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_airlines_american"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a5fc98283d0b4599b7626d5af51d1333.japan_airlines_american_tok114.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=2z9oup8JWhq37Nm8GsrecQ--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="In this Jan. 14, 2010 photo, a Japan Airlines airplane with a sign reading: 'oneworld' takes off from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. The Japanese carrier said in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 it will strengthen its partnership with American and the two airlines will jointly ask the U.S. and Japanese governments for antitrust immunity on trans-Pacific routes. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0" /></a>AP - Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and global reach, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_airlines_american"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a5fc98283d0b4599b7626d5af51d1333.japan_airlines_american_tok114.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=2z9oup8JWhq37Nm8GsrecQ--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Jan. 14, 2010 photo, a Japan Airlines airplane with a sign reading: 'oneworld' takes off from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. The Japanese carrier said in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 it will strengthen its partnership with American and the two airlines will jointly ask the U.S. and Japanese governments for antitrust immunity on trans-Pacific routes. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/greecefinanceeconomystrikelead afp/20100209/greecefinanceeconomystrikelead AFP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:19:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/greecefinanceeconomystrikelead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265716322825-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=sAQiGgwDdrT0UvXvRKpjPQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Tourists walk past demonstrating former Olympic Airways employees outside the Labour Ministry in Athens on February 9. Greece's government on Tuesday unveiled a hike in the average retirement age and called on striking civil servants to accept bonus cuts to pull the country out of an unprecedented financial crisis.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Greece's government on Tuesday unveiled a hike in the average retirement age and called on striking civil servants to accept bonus cuts to pull the country out of an unprecedented financial crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/greecefinanceeconomystrikelead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265716322825-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=sAQiGgwDdrT0UvXvRKpjPQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tourists walk past demonstrating former Olympic Airways employees outside the Labour Ministry in Athens on February 9. Greece's government on Tuesday unveiled a hike in the average retirement age and called on striking civil servants to accept bonus cuts to pull the country out of an unprecedented financial crisis.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_greece_financial_crisis ap/20100209/eu_greece_financial_crisis AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:52:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_greece_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.db68ecb1fac348cd8641c1930df980ae.greece_financial_crisis_ath104.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=t644QeWnln_oCzVg5dtM7Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="People look the exchange rates in a bank in central Athens on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Europe's currency union faces an unprecedented crisis as markets and the euro currency have tumbled in recent weeks &mdash; with the euro trading at an eight-month low against the U.S. dollar &mdash; on worries that Greece might need financial rescue to cope with its soaring debt and deficit. (AP Photo / Thanassis Stavrakis)" border="0" /></a>AP - Greece took further steps Tuesday to calm global markets spooked by its debt crisis, pledging to increase retirement ages, accelerate reforms and reform its ineffective tax system, on the eve of the first nationwide strike against new austerity measures.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_greece_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.db68ecb1fac348cd8641c1930df980ae.greece_financial_crisis_ath104.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=t644QeWnln_oCzVg5dtM7Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="People look the exchange rates in a bank in central Athens on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Europe's currency union faces an unprecedented crisis as markets and the euro currency have tumbled in recent weeks &mdash; with the euro trading at an eight-month low against the U.S. dollar &mdash; on worries that Greece might need financial rescue to cope with its soaring debt and deficit. (AP Photo / Thanassis Stavrakis)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/greecefinanceeconomystrike afp/20100209/greecefinanceeconomystrike AFP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/greecefinanceeconomystrike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265745591509-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=3TYPR45BNgbxTW6097EAIw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou arrives for a press conference in the Finance Ministry in Athens. Greece's government on Tuesday unveiled a hike in the average retirement age and called on striking civil servants to accept bonus cuts to pull the country out of an unprecedented financial crisis.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Greece's government on Tuesday unveiled a hike in the average retirement age and called on striking civil servants to accept bonus cuts to pull the country out of an unprecedented financial crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedbs/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/greecefinanceeconomystrike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265745591509-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=3TYPR45BNgbxTW6097EAIw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou arrives for a press conference in the Finance Ministry in Athens. Greece's government on Tuesday unveiled a hike in the average retirement age and called on striking civil servants to accept bonus cuts to pull the country out of an unprecedented financial crisis.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)