IBT Staff Reporter

An Australian zoo has posted an urgent plea on its Facebook page for help in returning eight stolen endangered monkeys, so small they could fit in a handbag or the palm of your hand.

Shares of Apple Inc rallied on Tuesday, as a successful international launch of its iPad tablet prompted Wall Street analysts to raise earnings and sales estimates.

U.S. safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into the possibility that accelerator pedals could be entrapped by floormats in Ford Motor Co 2010 Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans.

Alcoa Inc said Tuesday it reached a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers union on a new 4-year labor contract covering 5,400 workers at 10 of the aluminum producer's manufacturing locations in the United States.

Covidien Plc plans to acquire ev3 Inc for $2.6 billion to boost its business in stents and other vascular devices, underscoring the favorable deal climate in the medical technology industry.

Stocks were little changed on Tuesday after data showed manufacturing expanded for a tenth straight month, but worries of wider fallout from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico kept a lid on gains.

Small businesses are borrowing more than they were at the depths of the recession, but their appetite for loans remains poor, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed.

British Airways Plc and officials from the Unite trade union plan were holding talks on Tuesday to try to resolve a dispute with cabin crew staging the latest in a series of strikes.

Hewlett-Packard Co said it aims to boost margins by cutting jobs and reallocating spending to more profitable technology services, shrinking its workforce by a net 3,000 jobs, or 1 percent, over three years.

Wall Street was little changed in choppy mid-day trading on Tuesday after erasing losses as data showing U.S. manufacturing expanded for a tenth straight month failed to quell fears of a slowing economy.

AIG's rejection of a lowered takeover offer by Prudential for its Asian life insurance business has shifted attention back to the company's IPO plans.

Prudential Plc's bid for rival AIG's Asian unit was close to collapse after the British insurer failed to secure a price cut, triggering talk it might itself become a takeover target.

Hewlett-Packard plans to spend $1 billion to bolster its corporate services business, and will shrink its workforce by 1 percent, or 3,000 jobs, over three years.

More U.S. employers expect to pay higher salaries to new hires as demand for professional staff improves with a stronger economy, a semiannual survey by Dice Holdings Inc found.

The manufacturing sector expanded in May for a tenth straight month but at a slower pace than in April while employment rose slightly to its best level in six years, according to an industry report released on Tuesday.

Canada became the first of the G7 major industrialized countries to begin hiking interest rates following the global financial crisis, raising its key rate on Tuesday by a quarter-point to 0.50 percent.

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Wall Street rose on Tuesday as U.S. construction spending recorded its largest monthly increase in nearly 10 years and U.S. manufacturing expanded in for a tenth straight month.

Hewlett-Packard plans to spend $1 billion to bolster its corporate services business, and will shrink its workforce by 3,000 jobs over three years as it consolidates related operations.

Dubai Holding's main unit said it may resort to asset sales to deal with its debt after posting a $6.2 billion loss for 2009, sending shares in Dubai tumbling as the market reacted to the latest setback for the emirate.

Stocks pared losses and the Dow and the Nasdaq turned positive on Tuesday after a report showed U.S. manufacturing grew more than expected in May.

Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.

(Reuters) - The Group of Eight industrialized nations plan to invest in better health for mothers and young children in poor nations to meet faltering goals for slashing world poverty by 2015, a draft text for a G8 summit said.

(Reuters) - Scientists have identified a chemical compound that can stop the H5N1 bird flu virus as well as seasonal human flu viruses from replicating.

U.S. stock index futures indicated a drop of more than 1 percent at the open on Tuesday as a slowdown in global manufacturing added to doubts about the pace of an economic recovery.

British Airways Plc and officials from the Unite trade union plan further talks later on Tuesday to try to resolve a dispute with cabin crew staging the latest in a series of strikes.

U.S. aircraft maker Boeing has won an order from a Russian state company for up to 65 planes, nearly half its net order for 2009, beating European rival Airbus and a Russian manufacturer.

Dow and S&P index futures indicated a drop of about 1 percent at the open on Tuesday as a slowdown in Asian manufacturing added to doubts about the pace of an economic recovery.