Today’s Top 7 Business News Headlines

• Consider Confidence Highest in 4.5 Years
• Market Finishes Up 0.3% for Week, Ending 3-Week Losing Streak
• Dell May Buy Quest Software Over the Weekend
• Carl Icahn Buys 7.6% Stake in Chesapeake, Calls for 4 Directors to be Replaced
• Spain’s Bankia Asks for $24 Billion in State Support (HeraldNet)
• PayPal to be Accepted at 15 Retailers
• Yahoo Kills Reading Tool

Today’s Top 10 Business News Headlines

• Jobless Claims Fall to 370,000
• 30-Year Mortgage Hits Record Low of 3.78%
• Thousands of Fidelity Customers Impacted by Facebook Fiasco
• Dollar Continues to Rise
• Stocks Finish Mixed
• $100 Billion Lost by Marketers in Facebook Trading
• Gasoline Prices Continue to Fall
• Dow Chemical Paid $2 Billion by Kuwait
• Pandora Beats Expectations
• New Orleans Times-Picayune No Longer a Daily, 3x Per Week

Today’s Top 7 Business News Headlines

• Stocks Finish Strongly in Last Hour
• FaceBook Up $1 to $32
• New Home Prices Price in April
• HP Cutting 27,000 Jobs
• Pandora Raises Forecast of Listeners
• Los Angeles to Ban Plastic Bags in Supermarkets
• Knight Capital Takes $30 to $35 Million Loss on FaceBook Trading

Today’s Top 10 Business News Headlines

G• Existing Home Sales Up 4.2% for 1st Time in 3 Months
• Google Completes Acquisition of Motorola Mobility
• FaceBook Fiasco Continues on Day 3, Stock Plummets Again
• Morgan Stanley Goes Negative as FaceBook Goes Public
• Could Greece Exit Help Euro?
• Dell Q2 Earnings Miss
• Analog Devices Q2 Falls
• Blackstone Pays $1.6 Billion for Motel 6
• General Mills to Layoff 850 Workers
• Oil Falls to $91.62 on News of Iran Settlement Possible

Today’s Top 5 Business News Headlines

• FaceBook Opens at $42.05, Settles Above IPO Price at $38.23
• Yahoo to Sell 20% of Alibaba for $7 Billion, Say Reports
• Concerns about Greece Continue Through Weekend
• Stocks Have Worst Week of Year
• Spain Banks Downgraded

Today’s Top 10 Business News Headlines

• Weekly Jobless Claims Unchanged at 370,000
• Warren Buffett Invests in Newspaper Giant Media General
• Skepticism Rises as FaceBook Approaches IPO
• FaceBook Founding Partner Will Pay “Hundreds of Millions” in Taxes, He Says

Today’s Top 10 Business News Headlines

• Court Judge Named Prime Minister of Greece
• New U.S. Housing Starts Up 717,000 in April
• Target Q1 Earnings Up 1.2%
• JC Penney Stock Has Historic Fall
• Limited Brands Q1 Beats Estimates, Sets Forecast Down
• Oil Falls Below $92/Barrel
• Skechers Pays $40 Million for False Health Claims
• GM Up Most on News of Buffett Investment
• Southwest Airlines to Delay Purchase of 30 Plane, Hoping for 15% ROIC
• JP Morgan to Cut 20 Investment Banking Jobs in UK

Today’s Top 8 Business News Headlines

• Rumors Grow that Greece Will Exit Euro
• Coty Drops $10.7 Billion Bid for Avon
• JC Penney’s Misses Big on Earnings
• Dick’s Sporting Goods Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates
• Carlyle Group Q1 Earnings Down 26.5%
• CFO Fired for His Tweets and FaceBook Postings
• Einhorn Cuts Stakes in Microsoft
• THQ Takes Q4 Loss

Today’s Top 6 Business News Headlines

• Former Yahoo CEO May Need to Write $7 Million Check
• JP Morgan Fires Chief Investment Officer Over $2 Billion Derivatives Loss
• GroupOn Performs Better Than Expected
• Best Buy Chairman Resigns on CEO Involvement
• Avon Considering Coty $10.7 Billion Offer
• LightSquared Nears End?

Today’s Top3 Business News Headlines

• Inflation Remains Quiet
• JP Morgan Takes $2 Billion Loss on Trading
• FaceBook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship