• S&P LAWSUIT:

  • Key allegations government is making
    against S&P

  • Emails suggest concern about ratings

• US home prices rose last year by most in 6.5
  years

US service firms
grew more slowly
in January

 

• Mitsubishi recalls electric cars for brake problem

International

New doubts Egypt will get $4.8 billion IMF loan


 

Year of the Snake
promises calmer
HK market

 

• China promises action on income gap

• Rupert Murdoch: Chinese are still hacking the
  WSJ

• Japan's central bank governor to resign early

• Fitch downgrades Dutch outlook to negative

• SKorean cabin crew fight skirt-only dress code

• Giant paper company stops Indonesian
  deforestation

• Mercedes sales grow outside home market
  Germany

Energy

• Oil gains on economic news; pump prices rise
  again

Duke Energy
to close troubled
Fla. nuclear plant

 

• Cyprus to grant new gas drilling license

• Stocks rebound on home prices, earnings; Dow
  up 99

• Dell said to be near buyout deal worth up to
  $24B

• Liberty Global to buy Virgin Media for $16B

• Praxair to buy carbonation co. NuCO2 for $1.1B

• 3M boosts dividend, adds to share buyback pool

• MasterCard doubling its quarterly dividend 

Other

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• Illinois grain prices in country elevators

• Illinois State Fair to host 'Preview Party' Friday

• Registration open for Illinois Conservation Congress

• Logan County FSA February newsletter

• Agriculture news elsewhere:

• Tomato Trade Deal Averts Clash With Mexico

• NFU Releases January Farmer's Share Report

• Farmdoc

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