May 21 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner meets with China's Vice Premier on Monday.

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Research In Motion is poised to beat profit expectations over the next 12 months, powered by demand for its new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone, a TD Newcrest analyst said on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc shares rose as much as 5.4 percent on Friday on rumors of a possible settlement with regulators and a feeling that the stock could be oversold.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - State April unemployment rates were higher than a year ago in most states but fell from March 2010 levels in dozens of states, the Labor Department reported on Friday, as recession-fueled joblessness eased.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financier Bennett LeBow is buying a 15.5 percent stake in Borders Group Inc , making him the bookseller's top shareholder ahead of William Ackman, and could command an even greater share of the company through a warrants issue.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a reform of Wall Street on Thursday and President Barack Obama may be signing into law the most sweeping changes to financial rules since the 1930s as soon as next month.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet on financial reform on Friday with Senator Christopher Dodd, the chairman of the Senate banking committee, and Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House financial services committee, the White House said.

May 21 - Euro ministers meet for the first time to discuss changes to the way the 27-nation bloc manages public finances and its coordination of economic policy as investors flee the euro.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators and Goldman Sachs Group Inc have not reached an agreement to settle civil fraud charges, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

May 21 - The euro rises for its first weekly gain versus the U.S. dollar in six weeks, as investors who had bet the currency would fall further bought it to prevent losses in case of currency intervention.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a sweeping Wall Street reform bill on Thursday night, capping months of wrangling over the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares in Google Inc rose 0.4 percent to $477.50 after the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday it was closing its investigation of Google's AdMob deal after finding that it was unlikely to harm competition. Just after the news the shares rose almost 1 percent.

May 21 - British Airways posts a record 531 million pounds full-year loss, hit by the recession, industrial disputes and the winter snow.

May 21 - Wall Street is trying to put together a rally as it tries to rebound from another sharp opening drop. Conway G. Gittens reports.

May 21 - Germany's parliament gives a multi billion euro zone aid package the nod, while British Airways announces record losses and BP fends off accusations of underplaying the severity of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc plans to invest $2.5 billion in China over the next three years to expand its presence in a major, growing market where its drinks lag behind rival Coca-Cola Co .

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers rose in April led by manufacturers who shed workers even as the economy began to recover.

BERNE (Reuters) - A key lawmaker from Switzerland's largest party said on Friday he expected parliament to back a controversial Swiss-U.S. deal to end a bitter tax dispute over UBS.

May 21 - Germany's parliament approves a bill for a multi-billion euro zone rescue package.