AIG agrees to $35.5 billion unit sale to Prudential: sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) – American International Group Inc agreed to sell its Asian life insurance unit to Britain’s Prudential Plc for about $35.5 billion, in a deal that would help the U.S. government get back billions of its bailout money, sources familiar with the matter said.

Asian stock markets gain for 2nd day (AP)

AP – Asian stock markets advanced Monday, with Hong Kong’s index up nearly 2 percent, after China said manufacturing continued to grow last month albeit at a slower pace.

U.S., Japan to see leap in distressed property sales
LONDON (Reuters) – The United States and Japan are expected to see the biggest rise in distressed property sales in the first quarter, as the fallout from the global property downturn intensifies, the results of a survey showed on Monday.

Payrolls, quake, ISM may steer stocks (Reuters)

Reuters – Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction this week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy’s weakest areas.

HSBC, Standard CEOs to donate bonuses -report
LONDON (Reuters) – The chief executives of HSBC Holdings , Europe’s biggest bank, and Asia-focused rival Standard Chartered are set to give their bonuses to charity, newspapers reported on Sunday, following a high-profile row over the sums paid to bankers.

How the major stock indexes fared on Friday (AP)
AP – The stock market eked out a gain Friday as investors took downbeat economic news in stride.

Blaming the weather for high unemployment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Snowstorms have repeatedly battered parts of the United States this winter, making it more difficult to discern returning weakness in the economy from

The Best Mutual Funds for 2010 (U.S. News & World Report)

U.S. News & World Report – In the financial turmoil of the past decade, mutual fund investing has gotten decidedly more complicated. After all, over the course of just 10 years, investors have looked on as two bear markets ravished the economy, as a pair of bull markets jolted stocks back to life, and as the Internet and housing bubbles inflated to their breaking points and then burst.

Jobs report critical after mixed economic data (AP)
AP – Investors are seeking direction. Friday’s report on employment could give them exactly what they want.

The Most Powerful Investment You Can Buy
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A Fool Looks Back
Cases, cans, and cross-licensing took a bow this past week.

These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich
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This Week’s 5 Dumbest Stock Moves
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Steve Jobs Puts His Foot Down on Dividends
Jobs quashed an Apple dividend once again. Anyone have rotten tomatoes handy?

3 Reasons to Sell OmniVision Technologies Today
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3 Answers from Sirius XM
Sirius XM has another redemptive quarter.

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Before Buffett Was Buffett
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Why Developers Love the iPhone
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These CEOs are Bleeding Your Investments
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A 1-in-100 Investor
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A Big Upgrade for MercadoLibre
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This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades
Everybody hates STEC.

China’s Shanda Interactive Q4 profit up 13 percent
NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shanda Interactive Entertainment , China’s No. 2 online game company, said on Sunday its fourth-quarter profit rose 13 percent, as revenue rose to a record in China’s booming online game market.

Transplanting Future Revenue
Bristol-Myers Squibb waits for experts to decide the fate of its kidney cancer drug.

Buffett says chiefs must be held to account
Warren Buffett hits at top executives of banks and other institutions that collapsed during the financial crisis, saying they alone should be held accountable for risk management failures

Political Theater: More Entertaining Than Helpful
Health-care reform, like health-care stocks, remains still stuck in limbo.

Too Late to Cash In?
Here’s why one investor doesn’t think so …

Warren Buffett’s Bid to Save the Economy — and How It Failed
Even the Oracle drops the ball once in a while.

No One Is Delisting Sirius XM
Sirius XM doesn’t want to go in reverse. It may not need to.

US stocks fall on Greece debt fears
US investors were spooked by higher-than-expected jobless claims combined with increasing concerns about the Greek sovereign debt crisis

Newmont Strikes Golden Cash Flow
Mammoth cash flow from one of gold’s titans.

Do You Know This Monster Stock?
This world tour should pay dividends far longer than 80 days out.

5 Stocks That Laugh at Wall Street
These companies’ earnings handily beat analyst forecasts.

Boning Up on Pfizer’s Drug
Fablyn looks OK on paper, but that isn’t going to cut it in the crowded osteoporosis market.

Another Dry Year for DryShips
The curious shipper remains adrift in a sea of debt.

A Big Ol’ Buy for Boeing
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Has iTunes Peaked?
Downloads take a dive in 2009.

Thursday’s Hottest Stocks
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Payrolls, ISM may steer stocks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction next week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy’s weakest areas.

Gap, AIG, CKE Restaurants are big movers (AP)
AP – Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

World markets get lift from solid economic data (AP)

AP – World markets rose Friday after mostly solid economic data helped shore up investor optimism, at the end of a week when concerns about Greece’s debt crisis and the U.S. recovery from recession have weighed on sentiment.

Freddie Mac likely to need more cash support
Freddie Mac said it would probably have to take more taxpayer cash this year to offset continued losses in a fragile housing market

Tesoro Hawaiian refinery not impacted by tsunami
TORONTO (Reuters) – Tesoro Corp said on Saturday that the tsunami generated by an earthquake in Chile had not hurt its 94,000 barrel per day refinery in Kapolei, Hawaii.

FTSE 100 ends on a firm note (AFP)

AFP – London’s leading stock exchange ended in the black on Friday as investors welcomed stronger-than-expected economic growth data.

SEC examines destabilizing effects of CDS (Reuters)
Reuters – Securities regulators said on Thursday they are examining the potential abuses and destabilizing effects of credit default swaps, a financial instrument that can be used to speculate on an issuer’s credit worthiness.

Summary Box: SEC curbs short-selling (AP)
AP – WHAT THE REGULATORS DID: The Securities and Exchange Commission imposed new curbs on short-selling, or betting against a stock.

Greece downgrade fears hurt euro, stocks (Reuters)

Reuters – World stocks, the euro and commodities fell on Thursday on concerns over a potential downgrade of Greece’s debt, while borrowing costs for peripheral euro zone countries rose.

Best month since November in lackluster day for stocks (Reuters)

Reuters – Stocks rose on Friday, capping their best monthly advance since November as data showed the economy grew a tad better than expected in the fourth quarter.

Discover Settles with Morgan Stanley
Discover Financial Services is to pay $775 million to its former parent Morgan Stanley to resolve a dispute over an antitrust settlement.

International Center for Financial Regulation Launches Activities in Asia
The ICFR, headquartered in London, is the product of cooperation between 19 leading financial services companies and provides training, scholarship and thought leadership on financial regulation.

Thomson Reuters to Offer Securities Class Action Claims Filing Solution through PORTIA
More than $42 billion has been available to investors in securities class action settlements in the past five years and there is more than $11 billion in settlements currently available to investors, according to Thomson Reuters.

SEC puts new curbs on short-selling (AP)
AP – Federal regulators on Wednesday imposed new curbs on the practice of short-selling, hoping to prevent spiraling sales sprees in a stock that can stoke market turmoil.

Gap, AIG, CKE Restaurants are big movers (AP)
AP – Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

Diversinet Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Results
Annual Revenues Increase to $8 Million, Achieves Annual Net Income of $1.9 Million or $0.04 Per Share TORONTO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF), a leading provider of secure application platforms for the mobile world, reported its fourth quarter and

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JPMorgan outlines plans to double income
JPMorgan Chase executives outlined their plans to double net income from last year’s $11.7bn, a goal they expect to reach once credit markets improve and the bank reaps returns from recent acquisitions and investments

This Stock’s a No-Brainer
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Frontier Oil: Fouled by the Economy Yet Again
But it’s still among the best of the bad choices.

What Are You Waiting For?
It doesn’t take large wads of cash to make large wads of cash investing in stocks.

3 Words for Jim Cramer
You’ve got some explaining to do, Jimbo.  

20 Billion Reasons Not to Invest on Wall Street
Don’t be the patsy at this table.

How Big Is the Cloud Computing Opportunity?
According to VMware, fairly gargantuan.

Will Mario Kill the Kindle?
If you don’t own this e-book reader already, your kids probably do.