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Consumer confidence rose in May to the highest level in four years, led by gains among upper-income Americans that may contribute to a pickup in spending on expensive items like furniture and appliances.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary sentiment index for May climbed to 77.8, the highest since January 2008, from 76.4 the prior […]

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The struggling countries of Europe have cut spending for two years in hopes of averting financial catastrophe and persuading bond investors to buy their debt.
But the world’s most influential bond investor thinks it won’t work.
Bill Gross, manager of Pimco’s $252 billion Total Return Fund, the largest mutual fund, says that countries can’t simply cut their […]

U.S. companies in March posted the highest number of job openings in nearly four years, a sign that hiring could strengthen in the coming months after slowing this spring.
The Labor Department says employers advertised 3.74 million job openings in March. That’s up from a revised 3.57 million in February. The March figure was the highest […]

A spokesman for international Syria envoy Kofi Annan says the United Nations hopes to have 30 cease-fire monitors in the country next week.
Ahmad Fawzi says seven observers are already on the ground and another two will arrive on Monday.
Fawzi told reporters in Geneva on Friday that the preliminary agreement signed with the Syrian government this […]

Isle of Capri Casinos’ board of directors have elected the gaming company’s Chief Executive Virginia McDowell to the board.
The election, which was effective on April 12, was the result of a decision to increase the board by one member.
McDowell took the helm of the Creve Coeur-based casino operator in April 2011 free business cards.
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THE STORE: Organic grocer Whole Foods is taking a gamble on the Motor City with a planned 20,000-square-foot supermarket with 75 employees in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood next year.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: One reason Whole Foods may be willing to take the risk is that the neighborhood is an anomaly in a tough city enduring tough times: People […]

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Kraft Foods Inc. gave its CEO a pay package worth $15.7 million in 2011, which represents a 17 percent raise from the previous year.
The compensation for Irene Rosenfeld included a salary of $1.5 million, stock and option awards worth $9.7 million and incentive-based compensation of $4.2 million.
All other compensation came to $276,000 and covered costs […]

Iraq’s oil ministry says oil exports in January have declined by nearly 4.5 percent compared to the previous month.
Sunday’s statement says last month’s oil exports averaged 2.0137 million barrels per day, down from an average of 2.107 million barrels per day in January.
The sales grossed $6.595 billion based on an average price of $112.928 per […]