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Daily Highlights: 3.30.10

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  • Asian shares were higher Tuesday, with steel firms leading gains in Japan.
  • Greece sells €5B of seven-year bonds to refinance debt.
  • Japan industrial output drops 0.9%, Jobless rate unchanged on sluggish recovery.
  • Nikkei surges to 18-mth high
  • OPEC, IEA, IEF to unveil measure to combat oil-price volatility.
  • U.S. Treasury to sell $73 bln in bills.
  • US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement.
  • US consumers in Feb spent as expected despite their incomes didn't improve.
  • Vietnam growth quickens to 5.83%, pointing to regional revival.
  • Apple plans to begin producing a new iPhone this year that will allow non-AT&T carriers to sell.
  • Bank of New York Mellon wants to become biggest player in asset servicing in Germany.
  • BHP Billiton said it reached agreements to sell most of its iron ore at market prices.
  • Chinese court handed down 10-yr prison sentence to principal defendant in Rio Tinto trial.
  • Chubb estimates losses from Q1 catastrophes at ~$290M.
  • Citigroup stake totaling 7.7B shares will be sold by US Treasury Dept this year.
  • Danaher Corp. ups Q1 EPS view to at least $0.90 vs. prev view of $0.77-0.82.
  • Daimler expands commercial production in Brazil.
  • DoJ, SEC investigating Boston Scientific's recent recall of implantable heart defibrillators.
  • Ericsson to supply network equipments valued at $1.8B to China Mobile, China Unicom.
  • GM to delay by two weeks the release of financial results for the fourth quarter.
  • Hutchison's 2009 net rose 12% to $1.2B as losses from European mobile-phone ops narrowed.
  • National Australia Bank and Axa agreed to buy asset manager Axa Asia Pacific Holdings for A$13.3 billion ($12.3 billion).
  • Sanofi-Aventis, Bristol-Myers scored victories in their battle to keep generic copies of Plavix off the US market.
  • Sony Corp. is close to exiting talks to purchase rights to the music catalog of EMI Group.
  • Toyota sudden-acceleration cause to be probed by NASA, US Science Group.
  • UBS said to generate $2.3B of fixed-income revenue in rebuilt unit.
  • Vale wins 90% rise in iron-ore prices as suppliers scrap annual contracts.

Economic Calendar: Data on Case-Shiller 20-city Index-Jan, Consumer Confidence to be released.

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Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:37 | 280351 bingaling
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Sale of $73 billion in bills. All very short term . If this thing fails make sure you are as far away from a dollar as you can .

Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:42 | 280354 Cheeky Bastard
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oddly enough, you're, as many others are, wrong. when dollars bombs like a bitch everyone will be buying dollars. yes i know its fairly paradoxical, but that's the way these things work. gold will also skyrocket as will all other non-industrial metals, but there simply isn't enough of those to serve as a secure resort. we live in a strange age indeed. 

Tue, 03/30/2010 - 09:20 | 280375 jkruffin
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HAHA,  those that bought those Greek bonds already in the crapper as the rates are already over 6.25%    ROFLMAO   nothing is gonna fix the PIIGS problem other than collapse.  I don't care how many bonds they try to sell, no one wants them without guarantees and high interest payments.

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