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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | TUE 05 Jan 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | January 05, 2010 08:13 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were flat on Tuesday as investors awaited key economic data for fresh signs of an economic recovery a day after the Dow and the S&P rallied to their highest closes in more than 15 months.
| | | | January 05, 2010 08:18 AM ET
 | NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Nestle ruled itself out of a bid war over Cadbury and Kraft sweetened its $16.4 billion offer with a bigger cash portion, raising expectations the U.S. food group will win its prize.
| | | | January 05, 2010 06:47 AM ET
 | HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker, Nokia, has launched another court case against Apple for alleged patent violations, in an increasingly fierce legal battle between two leaders of the smartphone market.
| | | | | January 05, 2010 07:52 AM ET
 | REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's president refused on Tuesday to sign into law a bill to repay more than $5 billion lost by savers in Britain and the Netherlands, forcing the issue to a referendum and stirring fresh turmoil in the crisis-hit country. President Olafur Grimsson's rejection of the unpopular bill put aid from international lenders and his country's aspirations to join the European Union in serious jeopardy, analysts said.
| | | | January 05, 2010 06:59 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - The recovery in financial markets last year helped bring significant improvement to the financial health of U.S. pension funds, potentially adding $180 billion to companies' balance sheets, a survey showed on Tuesday.
| | | | January 05, 2010 05:56 AM ET
 | NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Co and Honda Motor Co launched new compact cars to tap the fast-growing and price-sensitive India market as they and other automakers seek to put a dire 2009 behind them.
| | | | | January 05, 2010 07:13 AM ET
 | PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Airbus set itself on a possible collision course with the German government on Tuesday by signaling it was ready to walk away from a delayed 20 billion euro military plane project in a row over costs.
| | | | | January 05, 2010 03:43 AM ET
 | ZURICH (Reuters) - An independent committee of directors of Alcon is disappointed with a takeover bid from Novartis , saying the Swiss drugmaker is trying to circumvent protections for minority shareholders.
| | | | | January 05, 2010 07:14 AM ET
 | TOKYO (Reuters) - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) , Japan's third-largest bank by assets, plans to raise up to $8.7 billion by issuing new shares to meet stricter capital requirements and for potential acquisitions in Asia, people with knowledge of the matter said.
| | | | | January 04, 2010 11:56 PM ET
| (Reuters) - International Aluminum Corp, a U.S. producer of aluminum and vinyl building products, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late on Monday, hurt by a downturn in both residential and commercial construction sectors.
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