LONDON/ SEOUL- North Korea has asked embassies to consider moving staff out and warned it cannot guarantee the safety of diplomats after April 10, Britain said, amid high tension and a war of words on the Korean peninsula.
NEW YORK-- Shares of PICO Holdings Inc. rose Friday after a subsidiary announced plans for an initial public offering of common stock. The company _ which is a subsidiary of PICO _ did not disclose how many shares it planned to offer or what the expected price range would be.
*Raised $1.2 bln from investors, but cash has dwindled to $30 mln. DETROIT, April 5- Fisker Automotive, the struggling, government-backed hybrid sports car maker, terminated most of its rank-and-file employees on Friday, in a last-ditch effort to conserve cash and stave off a potential bankruptcy filing, sources said.
NEW YORK, April 5- A federal appeals court rejected UBS AG's bid to dismiss a U.S. regulator's lawsuit seeking to hold the Swiss bank responsible for losses on mortgage securities at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
NEW YORK, April 5- Boeing Co said it plans to make a test flight later on Friday with its 787 Dreamliner jet, aimed at returning the grounded plane to service after more than two months on the ground. Boeing said the flight is scheduled to depart around 11 a.m. PDT and last about two hours.
*MF Global trustee says expects former customers to be made whole. NEW YORK, April 5- MF Global on Friday won court approval of a plan to liquidate its assets, pay back creditors and end the $40 billion bankruptcy that rocked the financial world in 2011..
NEW YORK, April 5- Brent crude oil fell to an eight-month low below $105 a barrel on Friday as data showed a much sharper slowdown in hiring by U.S. employers than analysts had expected, feeding worries about the economy and potential fuel demand.
NEW YORK-- Shares of Rigel Therapeutics Inc. lost more than a third of their value Friday on mixed results from a late-stage clinical trial of a rheumatoid arthritis drug the company helped develop.
*F5 Networks plunges after weak outlook, weighs on peers. NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. stocks fell on Friday, with major indexes down more than 1 percent, in the wake of a payrolls report that was much weaker than expected, the latest in a series of data to indicate economic growth may be losing momentum.
NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell, while Treasury prices rallied on Friday after a much weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report added to fears the U.S. economic recovery was losing steam.
NEW YORK-- The NFL found no "specific violations" in questions teams asked college players at February's scouting combine. The NFL's investigation found no such improper questioning.
NEW YORK, April 5- A federal appeals court in New York said Friday the Federal Housing Finance Agency could proceed with its lawsuit against UBS AG over mortgage losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
NEW YORK-- A Jefferies analyst says Hewlett-Packard Co.' s board needed some change, but expects the personal computer maker won't roll out any new broad initiatives until a permanent new chairman is announced. Late Thursday HP said that Ray Lane is stepping down as chairman and board members John Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson are leaving the board.
*Gold, natgas, corn, wheat and sugar rebound. Copper and other metals slipped too after data from the U.S. Labor Department showed American employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March. John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital, an energy hedge fund in New York, called jobs report "a real disappointment."
General Electric Co. fell$. 30 or 1.3 percent, to $22.78. Snap-On fell $1.51 or 1.8 percent, to $80.52. Whirlpool Corp. fell $1.95 or 1.7 percent, to $110.13.
Allergan fell $1.34 or 1.2 percent, to $113.08. Baxter International Inc. fell$. 54 or. 8 percent, to $70.59. Boston Scientific Corp. fell$. 11 or 1.4 percent, to $7.81.
Arch Coal rose$. 15 or 3.0 percent, to $5.20. Consol Energy Inc. rose$. 32 or 1.0 percent, to $32.32. Peabody Energy rose$. 08 or. 4 percent, to $19.85.
Bank of America Corp. fell$. 22 or 1.8 percent, to $11.72. Citigroup Inc. fell$. 88 or 2.1 percent, to $41.89. Goldman Sachs fell $2.38 or 1.7 percent, to $140.61.
NEW YORK-- Shares of some top drugstore companies are down at 10 a.m.:. Rite Aid fell$. 05 or 2.9 percent, to $1.67. Walgreen fell$. 38 or. 8 percent, to $46.21.
BP PLC fell$. 26 or. 6 percent, to $41.02. ConocoPhillips fell$. 56 or 1.0 percent, to $58.32. Exxon Mobil Corp. fell $1.20 or 1.3 percent, to $88.57.