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February 16, 2010 08:35 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as corporate earnings fueled investors' optimism on their return from a 3-day holiday.
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February 16, 2010 08:24 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays Plc beat forecasts with a near doubling of profits in 2009 to 11.6 billion pounds ($18.20 billion), cheering investors with an improved balance sheet and boosting shares across the sector.
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February 16, 2010 08:36 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Simon Property Group Inc , the largest U.S. real estate investment trust, made on Tuesday what it called a $10 billion offer for the bankrupt General Growth Properties Inc that would pay creditors back in full and end one of the largest U.S. bankruptcies on record.
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February 16, 2010 08:29 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - JP Morgan Chase is to buy the non-U.S. assets of commodities joint venture RBS Sempra from Royal Bank of Scotland and Sempra Energy for about $1.7 billion cash, roughly doubling its commodities client base.
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February 16, 2010 08:33 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gauge of manufacturing in New York state rose in February as inventories jumped, the New York Federal Reserve said in a report on Tuesday.
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February 16, 2010 07:59 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Waste Management Inc on Tuesday said it posted a nearly 45 percent increase in net profit, helped by strong pricing and cost savings.
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February 16, 2010 08:31 AM ET
| BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc posted quarterly revenue that fell short of Wall Street expectations, but said its recent acquisition of British chocolatier Cadbury Plc would accelerate long-term growth.
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February 16, 2010 05:26 AM ET
 | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sweden's finance minister said on Tuesday Greece's deficit-reduction plan was not enough, raising pressure on Athens to do more to prevent a swollen debt and broader financial market trouble from getting out of hand.
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February 16, 2010 08:13 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co posted quarterly revenue ahead of analysts' estimates on Tuesday, and stuck by its financial goals from its recently completed merger with rival drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp.
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February 16, 2010 07:50 AM ET
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With computer hardware at the top of the shopping list for many companies this year, Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc offer investors two different ways to play the information technology (IT) upgrade cycle.
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Stock futures gain as corporate earnings fuel optimism
