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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | FRI 13 Aug 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | August 13, 2010 08:24 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell on Friday as investors awaited consumer sentiment and retail sales data to get a better reading on the state of the fragile economic recovery.
| | | | August 13, 2010 08:33 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retail sales rose in July in a hopeful sign for the economy, but the gains were concentrated in auto and gasoline station sales, suggesting underlying momentum in consumer spending remains tame.
| | | | August 13, 2010 07:41 AM ET
 | DUBLIN (Reuters) - European economic growth accelerated sharply in the second quarter of 2010 as Germany's best performance since reunification more than made up for the struggles of Spain, Ireland and recession-ravaged Greece.
| | | | | August 13, 2010 08:36 AM ET
 | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Agricultural Bank of China's (AgBank) initial public offering hit a record $22.1 billion on Friday, after it exercised an over-allotment option in full, two banking sources said.
| | | | August 13, 2010 01:29 AM ET
 | DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co Chief Executive Ed Whitacre resigned on Thursday in an abrupt shift that came as the automaker hit the homestretch in preparing a stock offering to pay back its controversial bailout.
| | | | August 13, 2010 02:23 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp sued Google Inc, alleging patent and copyright infringement in the development of the popular Android smartphone software.
| | | | | August 13, 2010 06:36 AM ET
 | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management Co, the Chinese fund venture of Swiss bank Credit Suisse , said on Friday it raised more than 14 billion yuan ($2 billion) in China's biggest bond fund ever, as investors sidestep a weak stock market.
| | | | | August 13, 2010 07:45 AM ET
 | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's top lawyer, Mike Holston, came to the company on the wings of a board spying scandal in 2006. He is now at the center of another storm, this time surrounding the ouster of his friend, Chief Executive Mark Hurd.
| | | | | August 13, 2010 08:35 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday on tighter cost controls but the department store chain gave a profit outlook that fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Shares fell 1.4 percent in premarket trading.
| | | | | August 13, 2010 07:58 AM ET
| LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar may bounce from a 15-year trough against the yen in the near term due to technical factors and overstretched speculative positioning, but the options market shows potential for a grind toward fresh lows.
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Stock futures down ahead of consumer data
