Tuesday, April 11, 2006


U.S. EMPLOYERS ADDED 211,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls during March and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7%, matching the lowest level since July 2001. (WSJ)

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond broke above the 5% level early Friday for the first time since the long bond was revived in February. The last time the yield was above 5% was in December, 2004.

Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday. He insisted, however, that his country does not aim to develop nuclear weapons. (AP)

IRAN SAID THAT IT HAS BEGUN to enrich uranium, in direct defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend sensitive nuclear activities. The move comes as the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency was due to visit Tehran.(WSJ)

The US economy isn't just producing jobs these days, it's also producing good jobs. Alongside the ads for jobs handling a cash register or a spatula are these new opportunities. (CSM)

Muhammad Ali sold majority rights to his name, image and likeness to licensing firm CKX for about $50 million. (WSJ)

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