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Financeen-usFri, 3 Jul 2009 02:39:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/pr/40197.gifhttp://finance.yahoo.com14417http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/090702/ny41893.html?.v=1SIRIUS XM Radio will broadcast a revealing and in-depth interview with renowned rock and roll photographer, Kevin Mazur, with original MTV VJ and SIRIUS XM host, Alan Hunter.yahoo_finance/3277851505Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:39:00 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_power_grid_batteries.html?.v=2A Massachusetts company says the federal government has approved a $43 million loan guarantee to help finance a 20-megawatt energy storage system for New York's electrical grid.yahoo_finance/992383583Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:03:16 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_madoff_scandal.html?.v=27Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.yahoo_finance/1821834760Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:20:26 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_buffett_stock_gates_foundation.html?.v=5Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.yahoo_finance/3859221122Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:38:26 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_fdic_failed_banks.html?.v=20Six Illinois banks and one bank in Texas were shuttered Thursday as government regulators proposed new rules for private equity firms seeking to take over failed banks.yahoo_finance/511138079Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:08:44 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/cn_canada_ford_sales.html?.v=8Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. has claimed the top spot in Canadian vehicle sales in June for the first time in 50 years, the company reported Thursday.yahoo_finance/976744737Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:46:14 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/090702/business_us_column_stocks_outlook.html?.v=1With Wall Street stuck in a range since May, the start of second-quarter earnings season next week could prove to be a decisive factor for determining how much faith investors should have in an economic recovery.yahoo_finance/612021106Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:02:48 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_ldk_solar_outlook.html?.v=1LDK Solar Co., which makes wafers used in solar cells, said Thursday its second-quarter wafer shipments will top an earlier forecast, but sales will come in below Wall Street's expectations.yahoo_finance/2768115893Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:43:59 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_wall_street.html?.v=36The stock market found little to celebrate heading into the long holiday weekend. Major stock indexes fell more than 2.6 percent Thursday, pushing the Dow Jones industrials to their lowest level in six weeks, after the government said the unemployment rate hit a 26-year high and employers cut far more jobs than expected.yahoo_finance/1875807122Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:37:55 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_gm_bankruptcy.html?.v=11The judge in the General Motors Corp. bankruptcy case adjourned a three-day hearing without indicating when he will rule on the company's plan to sell its good assets to a new company.yahoo_finance/3068218051Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:29:43 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_philip_morris_acquisition.html?.v=8Philip Morris International, maker of Marlboro and other cigarettes for sale overseas, has agreed to buy a Swedish company's South African snuff and pipe tobacco operations for 1.75 billion South African rand, or roughly $222 million.yahoo_finance/215043330Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:22:11 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_johnson_johnson_elan.html?.v=16Johnson & Johnson, making a big jump into the risky but potentially lucrative field of Alzheimer's disease, is taking a major stake in Irish biopharmaceutical company Elan Corp., investing up to $1.5 billion initially.yahoo_finance/3467431452Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:04:07 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_glaxosmithkline_products.html?.v=1GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Thursday it bought Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s branded generic business in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Libya and Yemen for about $23.2 million in cash.yahoo_finance/130031270Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:00:15 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/090702/business_us_gm_sale.html?.v=7A federal bankruptcy judge will decide the immediate fate of General Motors Corp's effort to quickly sell its best assets to a group funded by the U.S. government, after a three-day court hearing concluded on Thursday.yahoo_finance/1235502174Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:57:14 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/090702/business_us_markets_stocks.html?.v=13Stocks tumbled on Thursday, driving the S&P 500 down to its third-straight weekly loss, as a steeper-than-expected slide in June non-farm payrolls revived caution about economic recovery prospects.yahoo_finance/2283770360Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:47:56 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_bank_of_america_tarp.html?.v=4Bank of America Corp. said Thursday its board has authorized roughly $713 million in dividend payments to the U.S. government under the troubled asset relief program.yahoo_finance/865471404Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:45:25 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_boeing_orders.html?.v=8Boeing Co. delivered 125 commercial jets in the second quarter, one less than the same period in 2008. The aerospace manufacturer said for the three month-period it delivered 99 of its 737s -- the company's best-selling jet -- and 21 777s.yahoo_finance/1858943555Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:23:17 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_exelon_nrg_offer.html?.v=20Exelon Corp. on Thursday sweetened its hostile takeover bid for NRG Energy Inc. by 12 percent to $8 billion in stock, citing newly identified cost savings along with NRG's recent deal for Reliant Energy's Texas retail business.yahoo_finance/2225559135Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:21:13 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090702/us_wall_street_stocks.html?.v=2Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE:yahoo_finance/2729708143Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:02:37 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ms/090702/297660.html?.v=1Can insurers take another hit?yahoo_finance/2439054636Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:00:00 Etc/GMT