U.S. stocks fell, with benchmark indexes poised for the biggest weekly gain in a year, as expectations about a slowdown in American manufacturing growth offset optimism that Greece may avert a default.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators may issue a public rebuke of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its former executives instead of suing them for actions that led to the firm’s 2008 failure, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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European stocks fell, extending the fifth week of declines for the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index, after a U.S. jobs report showed that the world’s largest economy added fewer workers than forecast.
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Asian stocks fell, driving the regional benchmark index to its longest string of weekly losses since October 2008, as investors awaited a monthly jobs report in the U.S. that may provide further evidence that the recovery in the world’s largest economy is faltering.
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U.S. stocks traded little changed as reports on home sales, leading indicators and manufacturing trailed estimates, tempering optimism in the economy triggered by a bigger-than-forecast drop in jobless claims.
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Energy producers led Asian stocks higher, with the regional benchmark index climbing for the first time in five days, after stronger-than-forecast U.S. jobs growth bolstered confidence in the world’s largest economy and halted a rout of commodity prices. Japan’s power companies fell.
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Asian stocks swung between gains and losses after stronger-than-forecast U.S. jobs growth bolstered confidence in the world’s largest economy, while Japanese power companies fell.
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Warren Buffett has asked for tough questions at the annual meetings of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. He may get his wish after praising the outgoing executive who was later faulted by a board committee for misleading the company about stock trades.
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