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Stocks climb on hopes for Greece debt assistance

NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average climbed back above 10,000 on hope that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden.

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State Farm says it warned NHTSA on Toyota in 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's largest auto insurer said Tuesday it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall.
Toyota recalls Priuses

Survey: Toyota still in a fix

DETROIT — Consumers say they have heard more negative news about Toyota in recent days than they heard about General Motors and Chrysler during their bankruptcies last spring, according to BrandIndex, a consumer survey that tracks perceptions of hundreds of companies.

Auto recalls put spotlight on electronics

NEW YORK — Your most expensive piece of electronics probably is not your flat panel TV or your computer. More likely, it’s your car, which can pack 50 microprocessors to control everything from the fuel mix to the rearview mirrors.

CVS Caremark 4th-Q profit up 11%

NEW YORK — CVS Caremark Corp., one of the nation’s biggest drugstore operators, said Monday its profit rose 11 percent in the fourth quarter as results improved for its pharmacy benefits management business.

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Vt. health chief: Tritium may in Connecticut River - 02/09/2010

The state's top health official said Tuesday it's reasonable to assume a radioactive substance leaking from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is reaching the Connecticut River. Dr. Wendy Davis, commissioner of the state Department of Health, told The Associated Press that the volume and direction of flow of tritium-tainted groundwater

Toyota seeks damage control, in public and private - 02/09/2010

In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations, maybe even steer them if it can. It's part of an all-out drive by the world's biggest auto manufacturer to redeem its once unassailable brand

Airgas board rejects Air Products' buyout offer - 02/09/2010

Industrial gas supplier Airgas Inc. on Tuesday rejected the unsolicited $5 billion buyout bid from larger rival Air Products and Chemicals Inc., calling it a "bargain basement price." In a letter to Air Products CEO John McGlade, Airgas said the $60 per share offer, as well as an earlier bid of $62 per share, "grossly&q

Consumers tepid as Disney posts flat 1Q profit - 02/09/2010

Consumers sent tepid signals to The Walt Disney Co. during the holiday quarter, as many of them still required discounts to step into theme parks and reduced spending on food, beverages and merchandise when they got there. A nascent advertising recovery also had an uneven effect on the company, as ESPN benefited from higher ad revenue