| Merkel rebuffs Sarkozy on euro zone solution | | October 21, 2011 04:08 PM ET | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France's push to use more European Central Bank money to fight the euro zone debt crisis ran into strong resistance from Germany and other EU partners on Friday, leaving Paris looking increasingly isolated before a crucial summit. | Full Article | | GE growth meets forecasts, but margins a worry | | October 21, 2011 01:48 PM ET | | (Reuters) - General Electric Co reported earnings that met Wall Street expectations, but its shares slipped 1.4 percent as investors worried about declining profit margins at its energy equipment division. | Full Article | | Icahn interested in Navistar, Oshkosh merger | | October 21, 2011 02:56 PM ET | | (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants Navistar International Corp to consider merging with rival Oshkosh Corp , though he has not yet made a formal proposal to either company, several people familiar with the situation said. | Full Article | |  | | US TOP NEWS | | Gaddafi, in meat locker, still divides Libya | | October 21, 2011 04:20 PM ET | | MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy. | Full Article | | U.S. to pull out of Iraq nearly nine years after war began | | October 21, 2011 03:43 PM ET | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he would pull U.S. troops from Iraq this year, almost nine years after the U.S. invasion, after he failed to convince Iraq that several thousand troops should remain in part as a balance against neighboring Iran. | Full Article | | Groupon's scaled back IPO to raise up to $540 million | | October 21, 2011 01:30 PM ET | | (Reuters) - Groupon Inc plans to raise as much as $540 million in an initial public offering, less than previously planned, as the daily deals website grapples with a weak equities market, executive departures and questions about its accounting and business model. | Full Article | | Investors berate Murdoch, new hacking claims arise | | October 21, 2011 04:19 PM ET | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A defiant Rupert Murdoch stood his ground at News Corp's annual meeting on Friday, fending off angry shareholders who slammed the media company's poor corporate governance in the wake of a phone hacking scandal and called for him to give up the chairman role. | 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 | | | |
