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M&S customers email address hacked: reports

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Britain's largest retail chain Mark and Spencer customers email addresses have been hacked and the company has sent warning messages to many online customers who have supplied the store with email addresses, various media outlet reported.
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Bed Bath full-year target tops estimates; shares soar

Bed Bath and Beyond Inc forecast earnings growth for the current year that would beat Wall Street estimates, following a holiday season that saw U.S. shoppers spend more on home goods, and its shares jumped 9 percent.
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Bed Bath FY target tops estimates; shares soar

Bed Bath and Beyond Inc forecast earnings growth for the current year that would beat Wall Street estimates, following a holiday season that saw U.S. shoppers spend more on home goods, and its shares jumped 9 percent.
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NYSE unswayed by Nasdaq; antitrust in spotlight

An NYSE Euronext merger with Nasdaq OMX makes little strategic sense whether the Big Board were the buyer or the seller, and antitrust regulators would likely block it, according to a source close to NYSE.
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Wall St edges up, led by tech shares

Technology stocks led Wall Street slightly higher on Wednesday after comments from Cisco's chief executive bolstered optimism about the networking giant.
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S&P 500 index edges higher on light volume

The S&P 500 index inched upward on relatively light volume on Wednesday, with investors adding to winning positions in technology stocks, but avoiding large bets ahead of corporate earnings due next week.
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Oil hits 2-1/2-year peak; gains seen slowing

Brent crude oil prices rose to a 2-1/2-year high above $123 a barrel on Wednesday before erasing the majority of gains in volatile trade as market players fretted the recent rally was overdone.
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Leaders see signs of hope in budget talks

U.S. congressional leaders saw signs of hope on Wednesday for a budget deal that would cut billions of dollars in spending in time to prevent a government shutdown.

Shutdown Watch: Talks Stalled Over Non-Budget Elements

President Barack Obama and allied Senate Democrats are sparring with House Republicans on non-budget related items attached to a budget measure that would keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year and avoid a shutdown of non-essential government services.
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Markets weigh two U.S. shutdowns: 1 bad, 1 awful

Investors are facing two possible U.S. government shutdown scenarios, one of limited impact on markets, and another so potentially devastating that analysts are struggling to fully assess it.
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World Market Update 04/06/2011

U.S. stocks pared earlier gains as energy companies’ shares declined after a higher-than-expected increase in petroleum inventories and Monsanto Co. shares declined as its revenue fell short of expectations.

'Nonstop' Negotiations as Shutdown Looms

'Nonstop' negotiations on passing a federal budget for the remainder of the fiscal year were continuing ahead of a Friday deadline to avert a shutdown of a big portion of the government, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats allied with President Obama sought to break an impasse that could put hundreds of thousands of workers on leave without funding in place.
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Confident D.Boerse will not raise NYSE bid: source

Deutsche Boerse has no plans to raise its $10.2 billion bid for NYSE Euronext , confident the benefits of its deal will trump a higher offer from rival U.S. exchanges, a source familiar with the deal said.

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