Kroger's profit
beats Wall Street
expectations

 

• Ford recalls 230,000 minivans to fix rust problem

• Subaru recalls cars that can start on their own

US trade gap widens
to $44.4B as oil
imports rise

 

• US household wealth regains pre-recession peak

US consumer debt
up $16.2B
in January

 

• Retailers report slowing sales gains for February

• US rate on 30-year mortgage ticks up to 3.52 pct

• US worker productivity falls 1.9 pct in Q4

• Weekly US unemployment claims fall to 340,000

• New TSA policy on knives, bats sparks backlash

• MetLife to move 2,600 jobs to NC from Northeast, Calif.

• Fed says 17 of 18 top US banks have strengthened

• Merck replacing R&D head with former
  company exec

Energy

• Oil rises on positive sign for US jobs

• US natural gas supplies shrank last week

• Lukoil chief wants level playing field for Arctic

• Pakistan to complete Iran gas pipeline project

Markets  

• Stocks gain for 5th day on unemployment report

• Money market fund assets fall to $2.646T

• SEC proposes tighter oversight of computer
  trading

• Colgate-Palmolive to split stock, raise dividend

• Gap revenue rises; transcript leaks early

• Hot Topic selling itself for $592M to Sycamore

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