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WASHINGTON — Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
RIVERWOODS, Ill. — Credit card company Discover says it will sell $500 million worth of common stock in a public offering, and use the proceeds for possible investments or to buy back preferred stock issued to the U.S. Treasury under its bank rescue plan.
NEW YORK — Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Monday it has raised its rating on Blue Bell, Pa.-based technology services provider Unisys Corp.'s $400 million senior notes due 2012 to B from CC and removed it from CreditWatch.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet.
NEW YORK — The Justice Department is starting a review of whether the largest U.S. telecommunications carriers engage in anticompetitive behavior, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
NEW YORK — Hoover's Inc. said Monday the number of U.S. initial public offerings decreased 8 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier.
PITTSBURGH — Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. "He's belly-breathing," the emergency-room doctor said worriedly - Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory distress.
NEW YORK — Shares of Matrixx Initiatives Inc. fell Monday after the company disclosed several class action lawsuits related to its withdrawn cold treatment Zicam.
MINNEAPOLIS — Just weeks after a federal jury ruled that a Minnesota woman must pay $1.92 million for illegally sharing copyright-protected music, the recording industry wants to make sure she doesn't do it again.
WASHINGTON — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction. The rate on six-month bills dropped to the lowest level since late December, while three-month bills also dipped.
FRANKFURT — BASF SE is looking at selling or shuttering half of newly-acquired Ciba Holding AG's production sites and offices in a plan that would cost 3,700 jobs at the combined company, BASF said Monday.
FRANKFURT — The German government has contracted PSM GmbH to build 405 new Puma armored fighting vehicles for the army.
NEW YORK — Shares of Central European Media Enterprises Ltd., which operates TV channels in Central and Eastern Europe, got a boost Monday after an analyst upgraded the stock and said the company's markets may have hit bottom sooner than expected.
FRANKFURT — German mail and logistics company Deutsche Post AG has sold off its remaining shares in Deutsche Bank AG, the company said Monday.
A summary of developments in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Group LLC