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General Mills Cuts Profit Forecast Amid Weak Demand
Businessweek
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- General Mills Inc., the maker of Cheerios cereal and Yoplait yogurt, reduced its earnings forecast for its current fiscal year as weak demand and rising costs squeeze food producers. Profit for 2012 will be $2.53 a share ...

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General Motors Meets on Revenues, Misses on EPS
Motley Fool
For the quarter ended Dec. 31 (Q4), General Motors met expectations on revenues and missed expectations on earnings per share. Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue expanded slightly and GAAP earnings per share shrank significantly.

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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine endorses Rick Santorum, rescinding support for Mitt Romney
Washington Post
Ohio attorney general and former Sen. Mike DeWine endorsed former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum in Columbus Friday afternoon. DeWine had previously endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. He is the most high profile defection ...

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Russia Opposes UN General Assembly Move on Syria
ABC News
Russia opposes a draft resolution on Syria at the U.N. General Assembly, saying it focuses entirely on Bashar Assad's regime and fails to address the armed opposition, a top Russian diplomat said Thursday. Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov ...

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General Assembly Votes to Condemn Syrian Leader
New York Times
The 137-12 vote, with 17 abstentions, is a nonbinding action with no power of enforcement at the world body, but it represented a significant humiliation for Mr. Assad, whose government had sought to block the vote and severely criticized the ...

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Resurgent General Motors posts record profit for 2011
Los Angeles Times
Three years after nearly collapsing into liquidation, a resurgent General Motors Co. posted its best annual profit ever. GM said Thursday it earned $7.6 billion last year, a 66% gain over the prior year. Revenue increased 11% to $150.3 billion.

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For California, Attorney General Insisted on Better Terms in Foreclosure Deal
New York Times
LOS ANGELES — Kamala D. Harris, the attorney general of California, could have derailed a nationwide settlement with big banks over home foreclosure abuses when she walked out of talks last September. Last week, though, she emerged with a ...

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Retired general had no conflict of interest, Panetta says
USA Today
WASHINGTON – A retired Air Force general who became a Boeing executive did not have a conflict of interest when he took part in a war game involving an aerial tanker the company was vying to build for the military, Defense Secretary Leon ...

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Dow Component General Electric (GE) To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow
TheStreet.com
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading down eight points at 12,957 as of Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012, 10:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 175.8 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume ...

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General Mills buys Brazil's Yoki for $1 billion: report
Reuters
(Reuters) - General Mills Inc (GIS.N) agreed to buy Brazilian food company Yoki for 2 billion reais ($1.16 billion), in a move marking its return to Latin America's largest consumer market, a local newspaper reported on Monday. The U.S. company ...

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