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Business Today: Wall Street eyes best week in a year

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Wall Street eyes best week in a year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were poised to record their best week in nearly a year on Friday as index futures ticked higher and investors looked ahead to key national manufacturing data, with confidence growing that the economic slowdown could be temporary. | Full Article
Strauss-Kahn sex charges on brink of collapse: sources
July 01, 2011 08:14 AM ET
NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - The sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was close to collapse on Friday, sources close to the case said, in a dramatic turnabout that could upend French politics again. | Full Article
Geithner mulls departing Treasury post: sources
July 01, 2011 06:06 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering stepping down later this year, but will not make a decision until contentious negotiations over the U.S. debt ceiling are completed, people familiar with his thinking said on Thursday. | Full Article
Lehman says new bankruptcy plan gets wider support
July 01, 2011 07:57 AM ET
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said its second amended $65 billion bankruptcy liquidation plan won support from thirty institutions and affiliates, possibly setting the stage for the end of the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. | Full Article
UBS thwarts Deutsche by hiring Weber as next chairman
July 01, 2011 08:11 AM ET
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS on Friday named former Bundesbank president Axel Weber as its next chairman in a surprise move that robbed rival Deutsche Bank of a top candidate to succeed its chief Josef Ackermann in 2013. | Full Article
US TOP NEWS
Apple, RIM group wins $4.5 billion Nortel patent auction
July 01, 2011 08:21 AM ET
BANGALORE/LONDON (Reuters) - A group including Apple and Research In Motion has paid $4.5 billion to snatch Nortel Networks' patents from under the noses of Google and Intel, stealing a march on their rivals in a litigious market. | Full Article
Venezuela army assures calm after Chavez surgery
July 01, 2011 08:01 AM ET
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's army chief said on Friday there is no threat to the nation's constitutional order as President Hugo Chavez's revelation of cancer surgery shakes the political system he has dominated since 1999. | Full Article
Rockets push back rebels south of Libyan capital
July 01, 2011 08:15 AM ET
BIR-AYYAD, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels who had advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold in the capital were forced to retreat on Friday after coming under a barrage of rocket fire from government forces. | Full Article
Syria running out of time to reform, Clinton says
July 01, 2011 08:24 AM ET
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Syria is running out of time to reform and will face more organized resistance if it does not, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. | Full Article
Cyber attacks outpace global response, U.S. warns
July 01, 2011 06:39 AM ET
VIENNA (Reuters) - The technical sophistication of cybercriminals is swamping the world's ability to cope, a top U.S. official warned on Friday, demanding an accelerated cross-border campaign to combat the security threat. | Full Article
HEALTH NEWS
Medicare will keep covering Roche's Avastin
Roche undeterred after FDA's Avastin rebuff
Montana judge blocks new curbs on medical marijuana
Big Medicare cuts to reduce deficit unpopular: poll
Medicare to cover Dendreon's prostate drug
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Morning Digest: Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: sources

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Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: sources
NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - The sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was near collapse, sources said on Thursday, raising the prospect of his dramatic return to France's presidential election race. | Full Article
Chavez cancer upends Venezuelan politics
July 01, 2011 05:39 AM ET
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez acknowledged he had surgery for cancer, shaking the political system he has dominated for more than a decade and alarming supporters counting on him to win re-election in 2012. | Full Article
Stock index futures signal mixed open
July 01, 2011 04:56 AM ET
(Reuters) Stock index futures pointed to Wall Street opening little changed on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.1 percent, while futures for the Dow Jones were up 0.1 percent and Nasdaq futures were flat by 0830 GMT. | Full Article
Google stops invitations to new social network
June 30, 2011 03:19 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc stopped inviting users to join its new social network less than 48 hours after beginning a limited rollout of the service. | Full Article
NASA bids farewell to "amazing" relic, the shuttle
June 30, 2011 12:13 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - When the United States embarked on its shuttle program decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the Cold War struggle for dominance in space. | Full Article
NBA opts to lock out players as talks collapse
June 30, 2011 05:44 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NBA will lock out its players at midnight on Thursday as last-ditch negotiations over a new labor deal collapsed hours before the current agreement expires, the league and union representing its players said. | Full Article
"Tudors" star Rhys Meyers hospitalized: report
June 30, 2011 08:46 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, star of the "Tudors" television series, was taken to hospital this week after what tabloid newspaper The Sun reported was a suspected suicide attempt. | Full Article
Turtles crossing runway cause flight delays
June 30, 2011 12:54 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport were delayed shortly on Wednesday when about 150 diamondback terrapin turtles were spotted crossing a runway, authorities said. | Full Article
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