AFP – US authorities on Tuesday froze the assets of two Spanish traders and charged them with insider trading linked to a multibillion dollar hostile bid by Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton for Canada’s Potash Corp.
AP – Sec’y of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Israel and Palestinians to resume direct peace talks.
AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is working the phones to prod Israel and the Palestinians into direct peace talks.
Reuters – Six Democratic Senators have asked the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission to require more disclosure about the trillions of dollars worth of debts and financial assets U.S. companies keep off of their balance sheets.
AP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he considers the incident that forced the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as “an anomaly, not a systemic problem” in the U.S. military establishment.
