GENERAL NEWS: For July 29th, 2010:

• Exxon Mobil Second-Quarter Profit Climbs After Oil Prices Rise Exxon Mobil Corp. posted its biggest profit increase since 2003, exceeding analysts? estimates, as rising production helped the largest U.S. oil company take advantage of gains in energy prices.

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  Stocks Reverse Gains as Technology Slumps; Treasuries Advance U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lower for a third day, as earnings and forecasts disappointed investors at technology and consumer companies. A gauge of commodities rose to a 12-week high on speculation the economic recovery will boost demand.

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  Play VideoYacktman Says Microsoft `Dirt Cheap,' Viacom, ConocoPhillips Attractive Donald Yacktman , whose $2.3 billion Yacktman Fund has outperformed 97 percent of funds with similar objectives over the past five years, said he likes shares of Microsoft Corp. , Viacom Inc. and ConocoPhillips .

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  Toyota Recalling 480,000 Vehicles for Steering Flaws

FINANCIAL NEWS : For July 29th, 2010:

• MEG Energy Raises $674 Million After Scaling Back Initial Share Offering MEG Energy Corp. raised C$700 million ($674 million) in an initial public offering of stock after the Canadian oil-sands developer partly owned by China’s Cnooc Ltd. slashed the deal’s size as much as 37 percent.

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  Play VideoYacktman Says Microsoft `Dirt Cheap,' Viacom, ConocoPhillips Attractive Donald Yacktman , whose $2.3 billion Yacktman Fund has outperformed 97 percent of funds with similar objectives over the past five years, said he likes shares of Microsoft Corp. , Viacom Inc. and ConocoPhillips .

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  Molycorp Tumbles 14% on First Day After Reducing Rare-Earth Stock Offering Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, declined in its first day of trading after chopping the size of its initial public offering by 18 percent.

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  Canadian Stocks Advance on Earnings at Suncor, Potash Corp.; Cenovus Slips Canadian stocks rose for the first time in three days as Suncor Energy Inc. and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan reported earnings that beat analyst estimates and insurers rallied.

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  U.S. Stocks Fluctuate on Earnings, Forecasts Before GDP Data

• Green Mountain Coffee, Itron, Kellogg, QEP, Symantec: U.S. Equity Movers

• U.S. Stocks Erase Losses as Shares of Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Advance

• Stocks Close Little Changed; AstraZeneca Rises as Unilever Shares Retreat

• Cisco Systems Trading Halted for Five Minutes by Exchange Circuit Breakers

• Bovespa Stock Index Fluctuates as Tele Norte Drop Offsets Rate Speculation

• European Stocks Climb; Capgemini, Telefonica Lead Advance

• Lexmark Puts Should Be Purchased Given Competition, Morgan Stanley Says

• DAX Index Retreats for Second Day; MAN, Deutsche Lufthansa Lead Declines

• Molycorp, Envestnet Slash IPOs, SurgiVision Postpones

• Italian Stocks Advance; Azimut, Finmeccanica, Lottomatica, Saipem Active