|                                                                                                                               |   |  |                                                         |  |                               | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures slightly added to gains  after data showed retail sales recorded their largest gain in  five months in February. |  |  |                                              |                                                                                                                                                                                    |                                                                     |  |                                     | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retail sales recorded their largest gain  in five months in February as Americans snapped up motor vehicles  and bought a range of goods even as they paid more for gasoline,  government data showed on Tuesday. |  |  |  |                                              |                                                         |    |  |                                                                     |  |                                     | NEW YORK (Reuters) - At least 50 advisers who managed nearly  $12 billion in client assets at Merrill Lynch have left the  "thundering herd" since January 1, based on moves tracked by  Reuters. |  |  |  |                                              |                                                        |    |  |                                                                     |  |                                     | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greece's second bailout package can make  its debt sustainable, but Athens will have to stick firmly to  agreed policies until 2030 and may need more money after 2014,  an updated debt sustainability analysis by international lenders  shows. |  |  |  |                                              |                                                                                                               |   |  |                                                                     |  |                                     | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG  unit Audi  is in talks to  buy Italian motorbike maker Ducati, two sources familiar with  the matter said, in a deal that could extend a long-standing  rivalry with BMW  to superbikes. |  |  |  |                                              |                                                                                      |                                                                     |  |                                     | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA)  has fined Nicholas Kyprios, head of Credit Suisse's  European  Credit Sales business in London, 210,000 pounds ($327,900),  alleging that he gave away confidential client information. |  |  |  |                                              |                                                         |   |  |                                                                     |  |                                     | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday is expected  to hold a steady course on monetary policy, acknowledging a  mildly brighter economic outlook while refraining from any suggestion  that further easing is now off the table. |  |  |  |                                              |   |  |                                                         |  |                               | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union, United States and Japan  formally asked the World Trade Organization on Tuesday to settle  a dispute with China over Beijing's restriction on exports of  raw materials, including rare earth elements critical to major  industries. |  |  |                                              |   |  |                                                         |  |                               | (Reuters) - Some big financial firms have offered to buy the  claims of thousands of MF Global customers, whose money went  missing after the brokerage firm collapsed last year, the New  York Times said, citing people involved in the negotiations. |  |  |                                              |   |  |                                                         |  |                               | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10  patents that include methods and systems for advertising on  the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology  companies in social media. |  |  |  |                                             |  |                         |                                                         |  |                               |  |                               |                                                                     | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. 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