NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp posted a 47 percent dump in handling income on Wednesday as promotion income declined, but Chairman Rupert Murdoch said the misfortune goods of the retrogression are at the back of the media company.

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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Regulators are grouping some of the largest U.S. banks to get tens of billions of dollars of collateral to pillow themselves in the eventuality of a low mercantile downturn.

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DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Chrysler has a transparent trail to an fondness with Italy’s Fiat SpA, the U.S. company’s arch senior manager said while opposition Ford Motor Co reported on Wednesday it has enough liquidity and its restructuring stays on track, boosting its shares.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose to 5 month highs on top of $56 a tub on Wednesday as a warn dump in U.S. gasoline inventories and a slack in in isolation zone pursuit waste in Apr increased hopes for a turnaround in the economy.

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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is approaching to inform a low detriment on Thursday for the first entertain in its last gain inform before the deadline for a restructuring that would clean out stream shareholders.

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By Moira Herbst
At Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee conference on slip of the Department of Homeland Security, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked for DHS cabinet member Janet Napolitano’s views on the H-1B visa program. (The sell starts around the 56-minute mark.)
Durbin said that he and Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) “feel that our first requisite is to American workers. And to encourage, if not reason accountable, those firms that are looking to fill spots to first spin to the bent pool in America, and quite those who’ve mislaid a job. Do you have any opinions on the H-1B visa program?”
“I determine with you,” Napolitano said. “Our tip requisite [is] to American workers, creation certain American workers have jobs.”
The comments were Napolitano’s first open statements on the H-1B visa module given she was declared DHS Secretary by President Barack Obama. It was misleading from her remarks either she was indicating await for the check Senators Durbin and Grassley introduced on Apr 23. That check would need that employers looking an H-1B visa oath they have first attempted to sinecure an American workman for the position. Currently, only employers identified as complicated users of the H-1B visa module are compulsory to make such a pledge.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. bonds rose on Wednesday after a private-sector celebration of the mass on the work marketplace signaled stagnation may be decrease and leaked bank highlight exam formula referred to most banks are healthier than formerly thought.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co on Wednesday said it is frozen its cash-balance grant devise for all employees, and has released layoff notices to 548 workers in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, the former home of Wachovia Corp.

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