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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | THU 07 Jan 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | January 07, 2010 08:25 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures dipped on Thursday along with global markets, as investors awaited data expected to show a rise in initial jobless claims, one day before the closely watched monthly non-farm payrolls report.
| | | | January 07, 2010 07:57 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers including Sears Holdings Corp and Costco Wholesale Corp posted higher sales for December as cautious consumers did their holiday shopping with an eye for bargains.
| | | | January 07, 2010 08:34 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance rose less than expected last week and a measure of underlying trends hit a nearly 16-month low, government data showed on Thursday, underscoring the improving labor market tone.
| | | | | January 07, 2010 04:15 AM ET
 | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The labor market in the United States is improving and the economy is close to the point when the unemployment rate will start to fall, a top U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Thursday.
| | | | January 07, 2010 08:37 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - Cadbury shares dipped below Kraft Foods' 10.6 billion-pound ($17 billion) bid price for the first time on Thursday as prospects of a rival bid receded and analysts reckoned Kraft now needed only to slightly sweeten its offer to win.
| | | | January 07, 2010 07:21 AM ET
 | (Reuters) - Homebuilder Lennar Corp posted a fourth-quarter profit, helped by a year-over-year increase in new orders, reduced sales incentives and lower construction costs and a tax benefit.
| | | | | January 07, 2010 07:39 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England committed to one more month of asset purchases under its 200 billion pound ($318 billion) quantitative easing policy on Thursday, as widely expected, and kept interest rates at a record-low 0.5 percent.
| | | | | January 07, 2010 07:45 AM ET
 | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's central bank surprised markets on Thursday by raising the interest rate on its three-month bills for the first time since August, intensifying its grip on liquidity a day after it promised to keep credit growth in check.
| | | | | January 07, 2010 08:10 AM ET
 | STOCKHOLM/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bidders in Sweden and the Netherlands made last-ditch efforts on Thursday to buy General Motors-owned Saab, as the deadline for its sale loomed threatening the Swedish car brand with closure.
| | | | | January 07, 2010 07:03 AM ET
 | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new finance minister called for a weaker yen on Thursday and said he would work with the Bank of Japan to achieve an appropriate level, prompting a sharp slide in the currency against the dollar.
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Stock futures slip ahead of jobless claims data
