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Stock futures gain as M&A boosts investor sentiment

Stock index futures indicated a Wall Street rise of about 1 percent at the open on Monday after last week's sell-off as investors welcomed a deal by AT&T to buy the T-Mobile business from Deutsche Telekom.

Stock futures signal rally on Wall Street

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Stock index futures pointed to a strongly higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 1.2 percent, Dow Jones futures up 1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 1.3 percent at 0907 GMT (5:07 a.m. ET).
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Global stocks rise as selloff seen overdone

Asian shares advanced on Monday as market players scooped up beaten-down stocks after heavy losses last week, while oil prices jumped more than $2 as Western forces struck targets in Libya.
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World Market Overview 15/03/2011

U.S. stocks ended lower on Monday, as investors were worried about the impact of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the global economy.
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GE's Immelt takes first bonus since 2007

General Electric Co paid Jeffrey Immelt a $4 million cash bonus in 2010, following two years when the chief executive of the largest U.S. conglomerate declined a payout in the face of sliding profits.
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US stocks decline in early trade

U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Monday, as investors were worried about the impact of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the global economy.
Warren Buffett is pictured in the audience at the 2010 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington

Pre-market M&A Deals on March 14 (BRK.A, LZ, LLY, JNJ, AMSC, INTC, ETN)

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it has agreed to acquire additives maker Lubrizol for $135 a share in cash, or $9 billion, making it one of the largest acquisitions in its history. Eli Lilly and Co. announced that it has made an irrevocable, unconditional offer to acquire the animal health business of Belgium-based Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, a Johnson & Johnson Co.
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Berkshire Hathaway to buy Lubrizol for $9 billion

Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc agreed to buy chemical and lubricant maker Lubrizol Corp for $9 billion in cash, two weeks after he revealed the company's plans to use its huge cash pile on deals.
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GE's Immelt sees new economic era for globe

The world has entered a new economic era that will be more volatile and more dependent on the growth of emerging economies, General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said in a letter to shareholders.
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SEC may take administrative route in insider cases

NEW YORK, March 7 - When the Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta in an administrative proceeding -- rather than in federal court -- it signaled a possible new front in the SEC's pursuit of insider-trading cases.

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