If it doesn't kill you: Arsenic helps in cancer

(Reuters) - "It's a much smaller dose than you would use to poison people," added Dr. Bayard Powell of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.




Adding arsenic to standard treatment can extend patients' lives and prevent relapse, Powell said. And the effect is so impressive that patients may some day be able to skip chemotherapy -- but that will take more testing.


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Treasury Yields Touch Nine-Month High on Strength in Jobs, Manufacturing

(Bloomberg) -- Treasuries declined, pushing 10-
year note yields to the highest level in more than nine
months, as larger-than-forecast gains in employment and
manufacturing suggested economic growth is accelerating.

Ten-year securities fell for a fourth week as traders
erased bets the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates
later this year.


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Wal-Mart to cut supercenter growth; shares jump

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Friday it will cut the number of supercenters it plans to open this year by as much as 30 percent as it tries to boost sales at U.S. stores, sending it shares up 4 percent.

Chief Financial Officer Tom Schoewe, who also said the world's biggest retailer will buy back $15 billion of its own stock, made the eagerly awaited comments at the annual shareholders' meeting.


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