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NEW YORK (AP) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has placed its ratings for aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. on CreditWatch with negative implications, citing a "very weak" operating environment and low aluminum prices. The ratings include the agency's ...

S&P places Alcoa on 'CreditWatch' - MSN MoneyCentral

3:30 pm: The NSE Nifty on Friday closed at provisional 2868.40, down 52.00 points or 1.78 per cent from the previous close. The 50-share index moved between a high of 2929.85 and low of 2810.25 intraday. The BSE Sensex ended the day at provisional at ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to a record low for the third straight week and borrowers took advantage of the drop, sending new applications soaring. With the Federal Reserve on the verge of pouring hundreds of billions of ...

Mortgage rates fall to third straight record low - Associated Press

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apollo Management LP, the private- equity firm led by Leon Black , holds about $2 billion of loans from Lyondell Chemical Co., which filed for bankruptcy protection, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Apollo is now ...

Black’s Apollo Owed $2 Billion in Lyondell Bankruptcy (Update1) - Bloomberg

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street will open for trading Monday at a two-month high as investors have grown more optimistic that the worst of the market's rout might be over. But, analysts contend, the real test is still to come. There will be no shortage ...

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned of "grave" consequences without "unprecedented" policy cooperation between governments to lift the world out of the global financial crisis. In an opinion piece in the UK's Financial Times , Mr Rudd says the ...

Rudd in 'quantum of stimulus' calculation call - Australian Broadcasting Corp.

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Is Chrysler a lost cause? Treasurys down after $30 billion note auction Citgo extends free fuel after Chavez intervention Obama names special watchdog for federal spending Brazil stocks down early amid profit-taking DETROIT - Even by the standards of ...

Even after bailout loan and perhaps more help on the way, Chrysler ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

CHICAGO — The year of reckoning has begun for retailers. After a long stretch of easy access to capital, a store-building boom and effortless selling to shoppers flush with cash from home-equity loans, the retail landscape is about to get smaller ...

Leaner times for retailers - Grand Forks Herald

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks seesawed Thursday on worries about the consumer after weak retail sales, and ahead of the December employment report which is expected to show massive job losses. The Dow Jones industrial average ( INDU ) lost 0.3 ...