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 | | | Good Morning Aron, | FRI 06 Aug 2010 | | | | |  |  | |  | | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | August 06, 2010 08:11 AM ET  | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures edged higher on Friday as investors awaited a key report on the labor market to provide direction.  | |  |  | August 06, 2010 07:48 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment probably fell for a second straight month in July as more temporary census jobs ended and private hiring remained too weak to boost a fragile economic recovery, according to a Reuters survey.  | |  |  | August 06, 2010 08:29 AM ET  | NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Friday and said it had started talks on disentangling itself from the U.S. government, sending its shares up 3.6 percent in premarket trading.  | |  |  |  | August 06, 2010 07:35 AM ET  | MOSCOW/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Wheat prices surged to a two-year high while shares in European brewers and food producers fell on Friday as markets reacted to the sudden imposition of a ban on grain exports from drought-hit Russia.  | |  |  | August 06, 2010 08:04 AM ET  | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Union financial stability fund with the potential to raise up to 440 billion euros ($580.7 billion) to help countries weather debt problems is now fully operational, officials said on Friday.  | |  |  | August 05, 2010 06:56 PM ET  | TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (Reuters) - General Motors Co has begun work on an initial public offering of stock that could be the largest ever for the U.S. market, the automaker's Chief Executive Ed Whitacre said on Thursday.  | |  |  |  | August 05, 2010 02:25 PM ET  | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retailers posted July sales below analysts' expectations after cutting prices to attract shoppers worried about high unemployment, a strategy that bodes ill for the back-to-school season.  | |  |  |  | August 06, 2010 03:43 AM ET  | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank supports temporary bans on naked short selling of European credit default swaps and shares in extreme market conditions, but has warned against permanent action to stop shorting.  | |  |  |  | August 05, 2010 04:56 PM ET  | CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama lambasted Republicans on Thursday for opposing his auto company bailouts and unveiled a new loan guarantee for Ford Motor Co to help meet his goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years.  | |  |  |  | August 06, 2010 06:32 AM ET  | LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland is poised to sell its WorldPay arm to private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital, the latest step in its restructuring plan after a humiliating taxpayer bailout in 2008.  | | | | | |   | | | |

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