US challenges deal to merge Budweiser and
Corona

 

• Doritos to roll out chips in 'Taco Bell' flavor

• Union agrees to back off Wal-Mart protests

• Weekly US jobless aid applications rise to 368K

• US rate on 30-year mortgage rises to 3.53 pct

• Lender Processing paying $121M to resolve
  claims

• Suit claiming Hebrew National not kosher
  dismissed

• Pfizer disputes suit claiming Zoloft doesn't work

• Triaminic and Theraflu bottles recalled

• Daimler Trucks sees 1,300 layoffs at 3 NC plants

International

China poised
to control strategic
Pakistani port

 

Daimler buys stake in
Chinese automaker
BAIC Motor

Chinese automaker
Geely buys maker
of London cabs

 

 

• China manufacturing growth weak in January

• HK clamps down on cross-border baby formula trade

• UK watchdog investigates banks for mis-selling

• HSBC gets OK to sell $9.4B stake in Ping An

• Dutch state nationalizes SNS Reaal NV bank

• Taiwan's premier resigns amid weak popular
  support

• TeliaSonera boss quits over Uzbekistan
  allegations

• Spain's attorney says PM Rajoy could be quizzed

Energy

• Oil falls on US unemployment claims data

Gasoline prices
get early start
on spring surge

 

• US natural gas supplies shrank last week

• Dow logs best January in nearly 2 decades

• Money market fund assets fell to $2.695 trillion

• MetLife to spend $2 billion on pension business

• TRI Pointe Homes rises in 1st day of trading

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