NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Federal Reserve said on Friday it bought $989 million of U.S. agency debt with maturities ranging from October 2016 to June 2018.

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Chevron Corp. said Friday its fourth-quarter profit fell 37 percent as higher crude prices led to huge losses in its refining business. The nation’s second-largest oil company reported earnings of $3.1 billion, or $1.53 per share, for the final three months…

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Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of defective gas pedals that led to a record recall of vehicles in the U.S. will be investigated by Congress amid criticism that the automaker may not have acted quickly enough.

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A federal appeals court has revived part of a western Pennsylvania couple’s lawsuit against Internet search engine Google Inc. But the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling says Aaron and Christine Boring will have to prove the pictures of their home on…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks advanced on Friday, sending major indexes up more than 1 percent, as reassuring reports on the fourth-quarter 2009 gross domestic product and January consumer sentiment rekindled the appetite for riskier assets.

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Confidence among U.S. consumers improved in January to the highest level in two years as the economic expansion prompted companies to limit job cuts.

U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Rose to 74.4 (Update2)

Stocks rebounded and the dollar strengthened, while Treasuries fell, after the U.S. economy grew at the fastest pace in six years and companies from Amazon.com Inc. to Chevron Corp. posted higher-than-estimated results.

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Peter Weinberg, founding partner of Perella Weinberg Partners LP, said he sees “no renewed surge of confidence” in mergers and acquisitions.

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President Barack Obama directed the federal government to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 28 percent by 2020.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – American Express Co increased the base pay of Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault to $2 million from $1.25 million, the company reported on Friday in a regulatory filing.

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BOSTON (Reuters) – Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc set a first-quarter profit target that fell short of analysts’ forecasts and its shares fell 4 percent.

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The economy expanded at a 5.7% pace at the end of 2009, the fastest in six years, as factories cranked up assembly lines to avoid plunging inventories

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China’s central bank said rising inflation will complicate management of the world’s third- largest economy in 2010 after record lending sparked a jump in property prices and added to overcapacity in some industries.

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In an e-mail to employees obtained by The Associated Press, the company said it presented a remedy to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The memo did not say when the repairs would make their way to customers. “Plans are being developed on a variety of fronts. Tomorrow we will update you with further details,” Toyota said in the e-mail, which was sent last night.

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Toyota expected to provide details today on remedy for defective pedal