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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks fell at the open on Monday as markets consolidated after the S&P 500 closed Friday at a five-year high and before this week’s start of earnings season. The Dow Jones industrial average shed 13. 37 points, or 0. 10 percent, at 13,421. 84. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 3. 77 points, or 0. 26 percent, at 1,462. 70. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 12. 13 points, or 0. 39 percent, at 3,089. 53. (Reporting by Gabriel Debenedetti; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks drifted down on Monday as investors booked profits from a New Year rally that had pushed markets to multi-month highs, although financial stocks gained after global regulators decided to relax draft plans for tough new bank liquidity rules. Commodity prices mostly held steady, supported by data showing the U. S. economy continuing on a path of slow but steady recovery that propelled Wall Street stocks to a five-year high. Financial bookmakers called Europe’s main share indexes to open flat or slightly lower, while S&P 500 index futures traded in Asia eased 0. . . .

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(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc’s Michael Corbat has been meeting with bank regulators in his first months as CEO, as he looks to bolster relationships and finalize the bank’s plan to return capital to shareholders, sources familiar with the matter said. Corbat also expects to name his team of top managers within the next week or so, one of the sources said on Sunday. Corbat is expected to play it safe when Citigroup asks the U. S. Federal Reserve for permission for moves such as buying back shares or increasing dividends, analysts and investors said. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – While the focus of last week’s agreement between the Federal Trade Commission and Google Inc was search, the deal’s restrictions on how Google uses its patents could have a broader impact on the technology industry. Under the deal, which ended an antitrust investigation by the FTC and disappointed many critics, Google will make only minor changes to its search business. But Google is also now limited in when it can seek injunctions against products from rival companies that use certain of its patents. . . .

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ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche is no longer considering a bid for U. S. gene-sequencing company Illumina , Chairman Franz Humer was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “Illumina is definitely off the table. They were not willing to abandon the totally unrealistic price they were asking for. Roche does not do acquisitions that don’t create value,” he told Swiss paper SonntagsZeitung. Roche walked away from a $6. 8 billion bid for Illumina in April after shareholders blocked its move to gain seats on the U. S. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U. S. congressional oversight panel asked regulators to delay a multibillion dollar mortgage settlement with 14 large banks so that the lawmakers could review the deal, according to a letter made available on Saturday. "We would like more information about how the potential settlement amount is to be determined in light of the potential wrongdoing identified to date," said the January 4 letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry. . . .

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HONOLULU (Reuters) – Fresh from the long legislative fight to prevent a "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, President Barack Obama warned on Saturday that the United States could not afford further budget showdowns this year or in the future. Obama, who returned to Hawaii for a family vacation shortly after the House of Representatives passed a compromise bill on Tuesday, said in his weekly radio and Internet address that the new law was just one step toward fixing the country’s fiscal and economic problems. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors’ "fiscal cliff" worries are likely to give way to more fundamental concerns, like earnings, as fourth-quarter reports get under way next week. Financial results, which begin after the market closes on Tuesday with aluminum company Alcoa , are expected to be only slightly better than the third-quarter’s lackluster results. As a warning sign, analyst current estimates are down sharply from what they were in October. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U. S. employers kept their pace of hiring steady in December, falling short of the levels needed to bring down a still lofty unemployment rate and pointing to lackluster economic growth in 2013. Other data on Friday gave stronger signals on the health of the economy, with the U. S. service sector activity expanding the most in 10 months. Payrolls, excluding farm jobs, grew by 155,000 last month, the Labor Department said. That was a touch more than analysts’ expectations and only slightly below the revised gain of 161,000 reported for November. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index ended at a five-year high on Friday, lifted by reports showing employers kept up a steady pace of hiring workers and the vast services sector expanded at a brisk rate. The gains on the S&P 500 pushed the index to its highest close since December 2007 and its biggest weekly gain since December 2011. Most of the gains came early in the holiday-shortened week, including the largest one-day rise for the index in more than a year on Wednesday after politicians struck a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff. . . .

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