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March 31, 2010 08:26 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures extended losses on Wednesday after the ADP private-sector jobs report showed more job losses than expected.
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March 31, 2010 08:27 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. private employers shed 23,000 jobs in March, missing expectations for an increase in jobs although fewer than the adjusted 24,000 jobs lost in February, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday.
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March 31, 2010 07:55 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rite Aid Corp posted a worse-than-expected quarterly loss on weak sales from a mild winter cold and flu season, and lower profits on generic drugs and reimbursement rates. It was the drugstore chain's 11th straight quarterly loss.
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March 31, 2010 04:19 AM ET
| MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Macarthur Coal rejected a $3 billion bid from U.S. miner Peabody Energy, saying it undervalued the growth prospects of a company which controls a third of the world's supply of a cleaner coal coveted by steelmakers.
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March 31, 2010 05:17 AM ET
 | TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The U.S. economic recovery is gathering speed as business activity picks up pace, despite lingering weakness in employment, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday.
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March 31, 2010 08:13 AM ET
| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union regulators gave Ireland provisional approval on Wednesday to provide an emergency recapitalization worth up to 10.44 billion euros ($14 billion) to Anglo Irish Bank .
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March 31, 2010 08:09 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - Investors cut back on equities and lifted exposure to bonds in March, signaling a degree of caution about coming months as world stocks headed for their fourth quarterly rise.
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March 31, 2010 06:07 AM ET
| DUBLIN (Reuters) - Bank of Ireland is to raise private capital, potentially becoming the only member of an Irish "bad bank" scheme to escape a fresh bailout, as Dublin faces years of scrimping to plug the black hole created by the sector.
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March 31, 2010 08:14 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit accusing current and former American International Group Inc executives and directors of ignoring "red flags," leading to the insurer's near collapse and about $180 billion of federal bailouts.
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March 31, 2010 07:48 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications rose in the latest week for the first time in three weeks as demand for home purchase loans reached the highest level since October, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
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Futures add to losses after ADP data
