The FINANCIAL -- NYSE Euronext (NYX) one of the leading global operators of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies, on February 9 reported net income of $172 million, or $0.66 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2009, compared to a net loss of  ($1,338) million, or ($5.06) per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2008. 

The FINANCIAL -- SAS launches new cost measures amounting to SEK 2.0 billion and that expand its current cost program to a total of SEK 7.3 billion, which is expected to have a remaining earnings impact of about SEK 5 billion, with the majority of the effects expected in 2010.

The FINANCIAL -- Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans still hold at least a somewhat favorable view of Toyota even as the embattled automaker adds at least 300,000 2010 Prius models to the eight million cars it is already recalling worldwide over safety issues.

The FINANCIAL -- Zurich, one of the leading property and casualty insurance providers globally and in North America, on February 8 introduced Financial Institutions Select, a new management liability/professional liability policy that reflects the needs of today’s financial institutions and includes more than 75 new coverage enhancements to respond to the current landscape of risk faced by the management of financial institutions.