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The American stock-index futures declined as China said industrial output growth will probably slow and investors waited for Greece’s politicians to accept spending cuts needed to secure financial aid. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC), the major independent U.S. oil and natural-gas producer, grew 1 percent in German trading after reporting fourth-quarter earnings that beat estimates. Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM), the owner of the KFC and Taco Bell fast-food chains, gained 1.8 percent in early New York trading after posting periodical gross income that gained 30 percent.
Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index expiring in March fell 0.3 percent to 1,335.7 at 6:47 a.m. in New York. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures expiring the same month slid 19 points, or 0.2 percent, to 12,757 today. A Greek default will cause a correction of 5 to 10 percent in equities in Europe and perhaps less than half of that in the U.S., but it won’t be more.
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Glencore International Plc is nearing an agreement to combine with Xstrata Plc (XTA), adding mines from Africa to Asia to the world’s largest listed commodity trader, said two people with knowledge of the plan. Two of the Switzerland located companies possibly will announce a treaty as early as this week, said the people, who declined to be recognized because the plans are not to be mentioned. The combined company may be valued at 52 billion pounds ($82 billion) after excluding Glencore’s 34 percent stake in Xstrata.
Combination of Zug-based Xstrata with Glencore, located two miles away in Baar, would reunite two groups which separated a decade ago when Xstrata bought Glencore’s Australian and South African assets for $2.5 billion and went public in London. A deal can create savings of as much as $704 million, Credit Suisse Group AG said in a report in October. Joining gives them that much more level to fight against some of the larger players,
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Chrysler Group LLC will carry on look for loans from the U.S. Energy Department while the stoppage of companies that have borrowed from government programs may extend the process, the chief executive officer said. I’m not ready to give up,” Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Chrysler, told reporters yesterday at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas. “The department has not indicated a reluctance to let somebody use.”
Chrysler, majority owned by Fiat SpA (F), continues to hold talks with the U.S. about the program, which encourages production of fuel-efficient vehicles, Marchionne said. He repeated that the quantity that Auburn, Hills, Michigan-based Chrysler may be able to make use of has been concentrated to less than the $3.5 billion the company necessary last year.
The due carefulness process that they have inside the Department of Energy is one which is reflective of a series of concerns, part of which are maybe attributable to recent events and some of the deals they’ve done.
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