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WED 02 Jun 2010

Stock futures higher as BP rebounds

Prudential ends $35.5 billion Asian takeover bid

Market slide may dent AgBank IPO valuation hopes

BP tries again to curb oil spill as stock falls anew

Job cuts close to unchanged in May vs April

JPMorgan and BofA lead candidates for GM IPO: report

Ireland to bail out Anglo Irish again this year: PM

Honda China parts plant restarts, walkout threatened

Top central banks not planning shift out of euro: sources

Citi cuts up to 600 CitiFinancial jobs

Stock futures higher as BP rebounds

June 02, 2010 07:43 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures rose on Wednesday, recovering from a sell-off in the previous session as investors awaited monthly data on pending home and auto sales.

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Prudential ends $35.5 billion Asian takeover bid

June 02, 2010 05:17 AM ET

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Britain's Prudential has abandoned its plan to buy AIG's Asian life unit AIA for $35.5 billion, bowing to shareholder criticism over the price it had agreed to pay and leaving its management under fire.

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Market slide may dent AgBank IPO valuation hopes

June 02, 2010 05:03 AM ET

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Agricultural Bank of China may struggle to get the kind of valuation it wants as it gears up to launch the world's biggest IPO into a market that has slumped by a fifth in just six weeks.

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BP tries again to curb oil spill as stock falls anew

June 02, 2010 06:59 AM ET

VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP Plc forged ahead with its latest effort to curb the flow of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico as the British energy giant's shares fell anew on Wednesday and the U.S. government launched criminal and civil probes into the disaster.