| LATEST NEWS | | More than 200,000 in Cairo demand Mubarak quit | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, from students and doctors to the jobless poor, swamped Cairo on Tuesday in the biggest demonstration so far in an uprising against an increasingly isolated President Hosni Mubarak. | Full Article | | | UPS profit tops estimates, sees record in 2011 | | February 01, 2011 09:05 AM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Parcel Service, the world's largest package delivery company, reported a quarterly profit that beat estimates and forecast record-high profits in 2011, sending its shares up nearly 3 percent on Tuesday in premarket trading. | Full Article | | Joblessness, rising prices could spark war within | | February 01, 2011 08:29 AM ET | | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world economy is beset by problems such as high unemployment and rising prices which could fuel trade protectionism and even lead to war within nations, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. | Full Article | | Chains to report chilly end to holidays | | February 01, 2011 09:04 AM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers are poised to show only a modest rise in January sales as record snow in many parts of the United States kept shoppers away from malls and crimped demand for early spring merchandise. | Full Article | |  | | BUSINESS NEWS | | Wall Street to open higher on hopes for economy | | February 01, 2011 09:09 AM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were poised for a higher open on Tuesday as solid manufacturing data in Europe helped investors refocus attentions from the maelstrom in the Middle East to hopes that a global economic recovery was on track. | Full Article | | Pfizer trims 2012 sales view and cuts R&D spending | | February 01, 2011 08:53 AM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc cut its sales forecast for 2012, the first full year its $10 billion-a-year Lipitor cholesterol fighter faces cheaper U.S. generics, but slashed its research budget to keep its profit view intact that year. | Full Article | | BP profit lag takes shine off dividend | | February 01, 2011 06:52 AM ET | | LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc failed to dispel doubts about its future on Tuesday as its long-awaited return to a dividend payout was tainted by weaker than expected profits and a new charge for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. | Full Article | | Energizer sees weak year, shares plunge 14 percent | | February 01, 2011 09:24 AM ET | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Energizer Holdings Inc posted weaker-than-expected quarterly profit, weighed down by heavy spending to promote its new Schick Hydro razor, and offered a bleak full-year outlook, sending its shares down 14 percent in premarket trading. | Full Article | | Auto sales seen losing momentum in January | | January 31, 2011 06:46 PM ET | | DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales lost momentum in the final weeks of January, auto executives and a leading analyst cautioned on Monday, setting the stage for a softer start to 2011 than the industry had expected. | Full Article | | | | HEALTH NEWS | | | | | RELATED VIDEO | | |  |  | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today. |  | | Your daily briefing on the latest tech developments from around the world from Reuters expert tech correspondents. Register Today. |  | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day.. Register Today. | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | | | ODDLY ENOUGH | | | |
