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Daily Highlights: 10.2.09

Courtesy of Tyler Durden

  • Asian stocks markets were sharply lower Friday, dragged by losses on Wall Street.
  • Asia-Pacific bond risk jumps on concern US recovery faltering.
  • Banks with 20% unpaid loans at 18-yr high as doubts over recovery deepen.
  • Bernanke calls for higher insurance levies on big groups.
  • EU regulators sent antitrust complaints to AMR Corp.’s American Airlines, British Airways Plc and Spain’s
  • Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA re. alliance.
  • France plans to spend €1.5B on creating a battery-charging network for electric vehicles.
  • Japan jobless rate unexpectedly falls from record, consumer spending rises.
  • U.S. auto sales fell 23% in Sept, after the end of the “cash for clunkers” program.
  • Unemployment rate could hit 10% – Labor Department
  • Yen nears 3-month high versus Euro on job concern, stock drop.
  • Accenture’s Q4 net slid 41% to $254.7M on restructuring charges, lower revenue.
  • Chinese property developer Glorious Property Holdings fell 20% in its debut in HK.
  • CIT Group pledges $5.7B in debt reductions as exchange offer begins.
  • Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable-television company, and GE are in talks to form a joint venture that would own GE’s NBC Universal.
  • Cnooc in talks with Uganda on joining a $5B project led by Tullow Oil Plc.
  • Constellation Brands swings to Q2 profit of $99.7M; net sales down 8.3% at $876.8M.
  • EDF says it’s examining options for UK electricity distribution business.
  • Femsa in talks to merge its beer operations with a larger rival; deal size est. at ~9B.
  • Ford quits Australia’s retail car finance market; sells $874M motor loan portfolio to Macquarie.
  • GE led consortium to be part of second round of bidding for Areva’s power T&D unit.
  • GM’s Sept sales fell 45% to 155,679 cars and light trucks, while Chrysler’s fell 42%.
  • Immucor’s Q1 net rises 6.5% to $21.3M; revs up 13.5% at $83.1M.
  • Northrop bags $3.8B contract to maintain, service USAF’s fleet of refueling tankers.
  • NZ Telecom submits plan to cut mobile call rates by 62% over next 5 years.
  • Starwood Chief says NYC hotel demand may show start of recovery.
  • Toyota plans to sell 7.3M vehicles worldwide in 2009, down from 8.97M in 2008.
  • U.K. authorities are pursuing corruption charges against BAE Systems.
  • Wal-Mart sees a slow recovery from challenging U.S. business conditions.
  • Xstrata will be forced to formalize its merger offer for Anglo American, or walk away.

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