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Daily Highlights: 5.10.10
- Asian stocks, US Futures, Euro climb on global plan to stem debt crisis.
- China posted a $1.68B trade surplus in April, Xinhua News Agency reports.
- ECB says will intervene in bond market in unprecedented bid to buoy Euro.
- EU crafts $962B show of force to support Euro, halt global crisis.
- Fed restarts currency-swap tool with ECB in effort to contain debt crisis.
- US, Australian, Japanese bonds tumble as Europe arranges rescue package.
- Accounting regulators find deficiencies in 15 audits conducted by Deloitte & Touche.
- AIG swung to a Q1 profit of $1.45B as it recorded fewer investment write-downs.
- Alcatel-Lucent's Q1 loss widened to €515M as revs fell 9.8% to €3.25B.
- Berkshire Hathaway reported a 5.8% increase in its book value during Q1.
- Chinese miner, Tian Yuan Mining Ltd. to shelve its initial public offering indefinitely.
- Edison beats by $0.04, posts Q1 EPS of $0.82. Revs fell 0.1% to $2.8B.
- Elizabeth Arden's Q3 loss widened on restructuring expenses. Revs up 6.7%.
- JFE Holdings to spend $2.2B in iron ore and coal mines in Australia, Brazil.
- Kraft's Q1 profit soars to $1.88B on Cadbury acquisition. Revs up 26% to $11.32B.
- Mohamed Al Fayed sells Harrods to Qatar Holding for $2B.
- National Grid agrees to $442M rate hike to purchase Cape Wind power.
- Peabody cuts Macarthur bid to $3.4B on impact of Rudd's mining tax.
- Playboy dramatically reduced its losses for Q1 on fewer charges, lower magazine costs.
- Posco may be the preferred bidder for Daewoo Intl with a $3B offer: media.
- Washington Post swings to Q1 profit of $45.8M as revs gained by 11% to $1.17B.
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Goldman Sachs Has First Perfect Quarter With Zero Trading Losshttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHRgsfzJINXw&pos=5
Edit: Oops!! sorry, Tyler posted it almost at the same time as I.