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- The Justice Department yesterday formally charged Apple and a group of publishers with conspiring to fix prices of e-books. [Washington Post]
- Foreclosure filings in the first quarter of 2012 fell to their lowest level in nearly five years. [Washington Post]
- Republican leaders want President Obama to pledge not to issue any more regulations once the current fiscal year ends. [Politico]
- House Republicans have begun designing a strategy to hold votes on taxes before the November elections. [Wall Street Journal]
- Goldman Sachs plans to settle charges that it didn’t have adequate safeguards to prevent research from being passed to preferred clients. [Reuters]
- The vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve said yesterday that the Fed might need to extend its efforts to boost the economy beyond 2014. [New York Times]
- According to an inspector general’s report, a program meant to aid homeowners in the states hit hardest by the housing crisis has fallen short of its goals. [CNN Money]
- The World Bank cut its forecast for China’s 2012 growth. [Reuters]
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