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Greece on "knife edge" in push to agree bailout (Reuters)

Reuters – Greece’s prime minister scrambled on Sunday to convince lenders and politicians to sign off on a 130 billion euro ($171 billion) rescue, after his finance minister said just hours remained to clinch a deal to avoid a messy default.

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With sparse data, focus returns to Europe (Reuters)

Reuters – Europe will again be at the center of investors’ focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the economic calendar to give the market direction.

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ET, the new alien scaring global markets (Reuters)

Reuters – The United States is coming to be seen as a global threat, acting unilaterally with aggressive new market rules that critics say will hurt U.S. firms, foreign banks, and international markets in one swoop.

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New York sues banks over electronic mortgage system (Reuters)

Reuters – New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Friday sued three major U.S. banks, accusing them of fraud for using an electronic mortgage database that resulted in deceptive and illegal practices.

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Wall Street analysts struggle to predict Apple (Reuters)

Reuters – Leitao is part of a cadre of amateur forecasters, bloggers and hobbyists who sift through reams of data every quarter to guess at Apple’s quarterly results – often putting professional analysts to shame by coming up with more accurate predictions.

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Nasdaq vaults to 11-year high on surge in jobs (Reuters)

Reuters – A surge in hiring in the world’s largest economy last month drove the Nasdaq to an 11-year high on Friday as optimism grew that the labor market is on a steady path to recovery.

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Analysis: Stock-picking makes a comeback as macro tides fade (Reuters)

Reuters – Stock-picking once again matters on Wall Street.

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Fed will protect U.S. from Europe fallout: Bernanke (Reuters)

Reuters – Europe’s financial crisis still threatens the U.S. recovery, and the Federal Reserve will do everything it can to prevent it from damaging the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.

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Wall Street opens up after jobless claims data (Reuters)

Reuters – U.S. stocks opened higher on Thursday after jobless claims fell more than expected, boosting optimism about the upcoming government payrolls report.

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Jobless claims fall, jobs market slowly healing (Reuters)

Reuters – New claims for unemployment benefits in the United States fell more than expected last week, pointing to more healing in the nation’s battered jobs market.

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