IBT Staff Reporter

It’s the time of the year when spring is at our doorstep and the clocks move one hour ahead on Sunday morning.

Stocks fell on Friday as a bearish brokerage view on Apple Inc ignited a sell-off in shares of big-cap tech companies, while fears over the fate of the banking system persisted.

General Motors Corp said on Friday that it still prefers to restructure the business out of court rather than file for bankruptcy reorganization.

Dow Chemical Co and Rohm and Haas Co said they are back at the bargaining table to try to settle litigation related to their proposed merger, sending both companies' stock up more than 15 percent.

Accused swindler Bernard Madoff took the first public step to pleading guilty to criminal charges of masterminding Wall Street's biggest fraud, according to court papers on Friday.

Senior members of the Obama administration's auto industry task force are meeting on Friday at the White House to review the status of restructuring efforts at General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, officials said.

Adobe Systems Inc. announced the release of its new Scene 7 Template Publishing that could extends the Adobe Scene7 hosted media platform.

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On March 6, recruiting and staffing company, Spherion Corporation reported a decrease in the Spherion Employee Confidence Index of 2.6 points to 40.1, its lowest level since 1967.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife was killed and he was injured on Friday when a truck slammed into their vehicle, officials in his MDC party said.

Roche Holding AG has raised its bid to buy out the minority shareholders of U.S. biotech group Genentech Inc to $93 a share from $86.50 and extended its tender offer by a week.

Wells Fargo & Co slashed its dividend 85 percent on Friday, a widely expected move that the fourth-largest U.S. bank said will save $5 billion a year.

Dow Chemical Co and Rohm and Haas Co said on Friday that they were in talks about their troubled merger and the litigation stemming from it.

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On March 5, America saw its stocks plummet to their lowest levels in more than 12 years as one of the world's most well known banks, and an icon of American manufacturing traded like money on monopoly board game.

Roche Holding AG has raised its offer to buy out the minority shareholders of U.S. biotech group Genentech Inc to $93 a share from $86.50 and extended its offer to shareholders by a week.

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Accused swindler Bernard Madoff took the first public step to a guilty plea on criminal charges of running a $50 billion investment fraud over many years, according to court papers on Friday.

Accused swindler Bernard Madoff took the first public step to a guilty plea on criminal charges of running a $50 billion investment fraud over many years, according to court papers on Friday.

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U.S. prosecutors will file a criminal information in their case against accused swindler Bernard Madoff if he waives an indictment, a court document said on Friday.

Stocks fell on Friday, extending a slide to 12-year lows, on a sell-off in shares of big-cap technology companies after a brokerage cut its price target and profit views for bellwether Apple Inc .

Wells Fargo & co. will cut its stock dividend by 85 percent to retain an additional $5 billion in common equity this year as a precaution about possible worsening in the credit cycle, the company said.

NASA on Friday prepared to launch a telescope that will search the corner of our Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planet, making it NASA's first ever mission of its kind.

BRUSSELS - Belgium's dominant telecom operator Belgacom forecast on Friday its revenues and core profit margin would fall in 2009, but its shares rose as 2008 profit came in just above its own and analysts' forecasts.

Research firm iSuppli has lowered its forecast growth for worldwide PC shipments to 0.7 percent from 4.3 percent previously, citing the severe global economic crisis as a key reason.

J.P. Morgan Securities lowered its second-quarter and fiscal 2009 earnings and revenue estimates for Apple Inc on a deepening macro-economic downturn.