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Lions Gate received the approval of its lenders to increase the change of control trigger on its revolving credit facility, removing a risk of default for now.

Hotel and restaurant owner Whitbread reported a very strong start to the year Tuesday and said it is well placed for a U.K. recovery, though it doesn't expect the consumer climate to get any easier this year.

Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo said it will delay the listing of its asset-gathering unit Banca Fideuram because of current unfavorable market conditions.

J.P. Morgan Chase shuffled its top ranks for the second time in nine months, moving a potential successor to CEO James Dimon into a job running one of the bank's big businesses.

Carnival's earnings fell 4.5%, and the cruise-ship company warned fuel and currency expenses would damp earnings growth for the rest of the year.

Germany, France and the U.K. said that they will introduce bank levies to offset the cost of future financial crises and will urge their counterparts from the G20 to do the same at a summit this week.

Johnson & Johnson will pay $45 million up front and could pay more than $625 million in total to develop a type-1 diabetes drug created by Sweden's Diamyd Medical.

As consumers in Asia and Latin America are becoming more affluent, Nestlé expects to generate about 45% of its overall sales from emerging markets by 2020.

Walgreen earnings fell 11%, hurt by the elimination of a tax benefit, costs from its acquisition of Duane Reade and weak consumer spending.

French bank Credit Agricole's Emporiki unit now expects to return to profit in 2012 -- instead of its previously forecast 2011 -- because of rising loan losses.

British Airways agreed to a recovery plan with trustees at its pension schemes to address its pension deficit, bringing the airline closer to its planned merger with Iberia.

Toyota said it suspended production at a car assembly plant in southern China because of a worker strike at a supplier, just days after the company resumed production at a separate Chinese plant disrupted by labor action.

Dutch life insurance and pensions giant Aegon said it will further restructure its business in the U.K. and plans to sell its life reinsurance business in the U.S. to focus more on its core activities.

Samsung Mobile Display said it will invest about $2.1 billion in a new production line for mobile-phone displays as it tries to meet surging demand for smartphones.

Structural cracks discovered recently on at least two American Airlines Boeing 767 jetliners, including one jet that air-safety regulators believe easily could have lost an engine, are prompting concerns that some of the problems may turn out to be more widespread.

The administrator of the $20 billion fund for financial victims of the oil spill, is racing to speed up the system that BP initially put in place to compensate Gulf residents and businesses.

The oil industry is pointing to damage to the state's big employers to bolster its argument for continued exploration offshore.

Wal-Mart launched a public-relations campaign ahead of a Chicago City Council committee vote, vowing to build "several dozen stores" and creating 12,000 jobs in the city over the next five years.

Álcoa is spending $1.5 billion to create a new, low-cost bauxite mine in Brazil to reduce its operating costs down the road.

States are going after agents involved in stranger-originated life insurance, policies that older people take out and sell to investors.