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• Allstate pulls plug on ClearTarget Retirement Funds after 10 months

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• S&P; drops Tenneco debt rating deeper into junk territory

• Acco shares soar 60% despite struggles in 4Q

• Motorola hopes to sell Arlington Heights campus

• 1 in 6 Illinois banks report loss for quarter

• Phil Rosenthal: Rocky Mountain News unlikely to be the last newspaper to die

• Greg Burns: Qwest chief's appeal hinges on Chicago's Daniel Fischel

• CME in talks to clear derivatives in London

• Cabot completes acquisition of Epoch

• River East Art Center developer in talks to extend terms of loan

• World air traffic slumping

From today's Tribune

• Northern Trust to return government bailout money

• {} {Chicago Stock Exchange will reduce salaries of employees by 9.5% to 16.5%}

• Institute for Supply Management-Chicago manufacturing index edges up

• Tribune Co. closes TV end of Washington News Bureau, cutting 10 jobs

• FDIC raises fees on banks

• Heritage Community Bank closes; assets go to MB Financial

• Friday's market movers

From the business wire

• Berkshire 4Q profit tumbles 96 pct to cap Buffett's worst year at helm

• Ski resorts push further in to green territory with energy costs a burden

• Southwest Airlines announces tentative 3-year deal with Transport Workers Union

• Thai leader says Southeast Asia to be 'severely tested' as global crisis deepens

• Report: New UBS chief executive: Swiss banking secrecy shouldn't continue to hide tax evaders

• Warren Buffett says accounting methods can produce absurd values for long-term derivatives

• Union leaders talk about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation after nasty split

• Stanford investment officer released on bond; feds say she knows where stolen money is hidden

• Warren Buffett says America will overcome current economic challenges

• Canada's biggest media company Canwest and lenders extend debt deadline by 12 days

• Occidental Petroleum CEO cashed in $184.4 million in options atop $30.4 million paycheck

• Fiery Foods show vendors say economy not holding back the heat

• AMD's new CEO got $5.3 million pay package for first year in charge of slumping chip maker

• A look at Ford's EcoBoost engine

• Retirement: 10 questions to test your financial planning IQ on retirement issues

• GE cuts quarterly dividend 68 pct to 10 cents a share starting in 3Q; will save GE $9B a year

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• Author Harry Dent discusses his economic outlook in 'The Great Depression Ahead'

• Pentagon: decision on more Lockheed fighter jets will wait until overall budget complete

• Brazilian labor court suspends Embraer layoffs, saying they are invalid without negotiations

• Antigua to confiscate Allen Stanford land, businesses amid US fraud probe

• Source: Stanford borrowed $1.6 billion from firm's assets; investment officer due in court

• FDIC raising fees on banks, charging emergency fee to rebuild depleted insurance fund

• With stock conversion, government buys Citigroup time to sell off assets

• Deutsche Telekom reports euro730 million loss for 4th quarter; full-year profit up

• Mexican media company Televisa expects broadcasting sales to remain flat in 2009

• The hunt, the landlord, the lease, and other advice on finding your first apartment

• Baker Hughes says number of active oil rigs drops by 57

• Misery doesn't love company: newspaper editors cancel annual convention to focus on surviving

• Blackstone Group's 4th-qtr loss widens as value of investments fall amid ongoing credit crisis

• Telecom Italia reports rise in 4Q earnings on strong broadband and data revenues

• Low crude prices push Iraq to sweeten deal that would bring Big Oil back

• Pilgrim's Pride to cut 3,000 jobs, shut operations at 3 plants by mid-May

• Peanut products recalled for possible salmonella contamination

• Denver's Rocky Mountain News closes with final edition amid troubled times for newspapers

• Battered Sony centers power at top in Stringer for quicker decisions

• Chicago-based Northern Trust says it'll repay $1.6 billion government bailout loan

• Regulators close banks in Illinois, Nevada, marking 16 failures so far this year

• Redstone's National Amusements reaches deal to restructure $1.46 billion in debt

• Univision lays 300 people, a 6 percent reduction of work force

• Wells Fargo suspends bonus policy for Chief Executive John Stumpf, other top executives

• Conn. victims of Madoff scandal urge lawmakers to enact stronger standards, sweeping reforms

• Stanford investment officer to be out on bond; feds say she knows where money is hidden

• Business Highlights

• Gold prices fall for fifth straight day, end week down 6 percent

• Redstone's National Amusements reaches deal to restructure $1.46 billion in debt

• Latest Citigroup rescue plan could serve as model but carries risks

• GE cuts quarterly dividend 68 pct to 10 cents a share starting in 3Q; will save GE $9B a year

• Just-unsealed Seroquel documents show maker AstraZeneca knew of links to diabetes, weight gain

• How the Dow Jones industrials and other major stock indexes fared in Friday's trading

• Ford to reopen Cleveland plant with new line of fuel-efficient engine

• AP names Oreskes, Daniszewski senior managing editors as No. 2 editor Silverman retires

• Insurer AIG's inability to sell units could lead to breakup, more government ownership

• FDA says GlaxoSmithKline ad for prostate drug is misleading, overstates benefits

• Regulators say Idaho businessman bilked investors of $40M, bought mansion and snowmobiles

• Farmers say dust is part of life in rural areas, but EPA moves ahead with regulations

• US private equity firm to buy iconic china and glassware maker Waterford Wedgwood PLC

• Prepare for some turbulence: Head of budget airline suggests installing pay toilets

• Gap, Sotheby's, Sallie Mae, Moneygram, Dell, Synta Pharma are among big market movers Friday

• Stanford investors say they face financial hardship because funds are frozen

• Family of woman killed in plane crash near Buffalo sues over deicing equipment, crew training

• House approves $410 billion, earmarks and changes in Bush-era policies as Democrats prevail

• What you need to know about taking action against your financial adviser

• Home Depot reports 4th-quarter loss of $54 million, adjusted results beat analysts' estimates

• Smoke-filled workplaces a danger, supporting job-hunters, worries about jobs

• Lowe's profit slumps with housing market; company doesn't see stimulus plan as substantive fix

• Forget history: Small-cap stocks may not prove better than large when this bear market ends

• Freddie Mac says average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages falls to 5.16 percent

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