*Coming up: USDA crop report at 11 a.m. CDT ( 1600 GMT. Corn for May delivery eased 8 cents to $7.27- 1/ 4 per bushel as of 10:13 a.m. CDT at the Chicago Board of Trade.
HELENA, Mont.-- The U.S. Department of Interior is cutting $2.5 million in federal mineral payments to Montana over the next five months. The Interior Department is making the reduction as part of the automatic federal spending cuts that started this month.
*Sales of Tecfidera expected to top $3 billion by 2017. WASHINGTON, March 27- U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a new multiple sclerosis drug made by Biogen Idec Inc that is widely expected to become the No. 1 oral treatment for the disease, with annual sales topping $3 billion.
*Sales of Tecfidera expected to top $3 billion by 2017. WASHINGTON, March 27- U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a new multiple sclerosis drug made by Biogen Idec Inc that is widely expected to become the No. 1 oral treatment for the disease, with annual sales topping $3 billion.
NEW YORK, March 27- Cotton prices inched up on Wednesday, as merchants and investors hung to the sidelines ahead of a U.S. government plantings report that may help determine if fiber's recent rally still has momentum.
*Sales of Tecfidera expected to top $3 billion by 2017. March 27- U.S. regulators have approved a new multiple sclerosis drug made by Biogen Idec Inc that is widely expected to become the No. 1 oral treatment for the disease, with annual sales of more than $3 billion.
*Sales of Tecfidera expected to top $3 billion by 2017. March 27- U.S. regulators have approved a new multiple sclerosis drug made by Biogen Idec Inc that is widely expected to become the No. 1 oral treatment for the disease, with annual sales of more than $3 billion.
March 27- U.S. Food and Drug Administration:. *FDA says approved Biogen idec's tecfidera. capsules to treat adults with relapsing forms of Multiple Sclerosis.
CHICAGO/ CLEVELAND, March 27- Three Federal Reserve doves on Wednesday stoutly defended the central bank's bond buying to spur U.S. growth, but one official normally viewed as a centrist suggested it would not take much more improvement in job creation to warrant scaling it back.
By Ann Saphir and Kim Palmer. CHICAGO/ CLEVELAND, March 27- Three Federal Reserve doves on Wednesday stoutly defended the central bank's bond buying to spur U.S. growth, but one official normally viewed as a centrist suggested it would not take much more improvement in job creation to warrant scaling it back.
*Italian debt auction, Cyprus' capital control weigh. NEW YORK, March 27- Gold rose 0.5 percent on Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as renewed euro zone worries and hopes the Federal Reserve will continue its loose monetary policy triggered bullion buying.
*Italian debt auction, Cyprus' capital control weigh. NEW YORK, March 27- Gold rose 0.5 percent on Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as renewed euro zone worries and hopes the Federal Reserve will continue its loose monetary policy triggered bullion buying.
NEW YORK, March 27- It will be easy from an operational standpoint for the Federal Reserve to sell the assets it has bought when the time comes, the U.S. central bank official responsible for carrying out the quantitative easing program said on Wednesday.
CHICAGO, March 27- The U.S. Federal Reserve would do best to keep buying assets at its current $85- billion- a-month pace until the jobs market is on firmer ground, a point that probably won't be reached until the end of the year, a top Fed official said on Wednesday.
MANCHESTER, N.H., March 27- There is "little evidence" Federal Reserve bond purchases have caused financial instability and since the measures are working, they ought be continued for the rest of 2013, a senior U.S. central banker said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK, March 27- US banks are planning to take more leveraged buyout risk onto their books, unfazed by alarm bells sounded by the Federal Reserve and rating agencies that an upswing in LBO business could lead to a return to pre-crisis recklessness.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before a dinner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Markets Conference, 1915 EDT/ 2315 GMT.
March 26- 3 M Co:. *Recalls filtrete room air purifiers due to fire Hazard. *U.S. consumer product safety commission says about 10,000 units of 3 m's.
March 26- The Federal Reserve has ordered Citigroup Inc to better police for the risk of money laundering, part of a broad U.S. regulatory crackdown on the potential for illicit money flows.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren speaks on the economic outlook before an event hosted by the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire in partnership with the New Hampshire Bankers Association, Manchester, New Hampshire, 11:30 a.m..