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CNBC – Oracle said on Monday that it has hired Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard who resigned amid a scandal involving inaccurate expense receipts related to a female contractor.

Experts say with further enrichment it would be enough to build nearly three atomic bombs

CNBC – President Obama will announce a series of proposals this week that he hopes will jump-start the flagging economic recovery and drive the jobless rate down.

CNBC – When prices are lower, some experts argue, buyers will pour in, creating the elusive stability the government has spent billions upon billions trying to achieve. The New York Times reports.

CNBC – When prices are lower, some experts argue, buyers will pour in, creating the elusive stability the government has spent billions upon billions trying to achieve. The New York Times reports.

Four months after their Bangkok protests ended in a bloody crackdown, Thailand’s antigovernment protesters are testing what leaders will allow, with a fund-raising concert and a planned rally.

Germany’s four big power companies are to pay the Berlin government a total of €30bn to extend the phase-out of the country’s nuclear power stations by up to 12 years

CNBC – The rest of the year will be “less buoyant than the second quarter” and the ECB remains “very cautious and prudent,” ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet told CNBC in an exclusive interview.

President is to ask Congress to expand and make permanent a tax credit for research and development to boost a flagging economic recovery

CNBC – “No actor, no product, no sector, no territory should no longer be able to escape sensible and intelligent regulation and supervision,” Michael Barnier, the EU Commissioner for financial services, warned in an interview with CNBC.

CNBC – The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean’s Leeward Islands in coming days on a  eastward track, U.S. forecasters said on Sunday.

At least 18 people were killed in an attack against Iraqi army facilities in central Baghdad, just days after the U.S. ended its combat mission.

CNBC – The U.S. economy appears to be trudging along, neither booming nor busting, growing steadily enough to diminish double-dip recession fears but not quickly enough to bring down unemployment.

CNBC – President Barack Obama will ask Congress Wednesday to increase and permanently extend a tax credit for business research as a way of boosting job growth, administration officials said Sunday.

At least 18 people were killed in an attack against Iraqi army facilities in central Baghdad, just days after the U.S. ended its combat mission.