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Filed under: Management, Apple Inc (AAPL)

The New York Post reports that concerns remain over Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs health after he appeared thin at recent developers conferences. This is making investors nervous since it's not likely that anyone can do as good a job as Apple CEO. And Apple's board may have a duty to report on Jobs' health if he can't perform his duties.

Filed under: Newspapers, Magazines, Apple Inc (AAPL), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Research in Motion (RIMM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Wachovia Corp (WB)

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Filed under: Private equity, Black and Decker (BDK), Merrill Lynch (MER), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH)

Laurence Tosi is certainly well educated, with an MBA and JD (from Georgetown University). Only 40 years old, he has served as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER)'s chief operator officer of global markets and investment banking.

Well, now he has a new gig: the chief financial officer of The Blackstone Group LLP (NYSE: BX).

Filed under: Earnings reports, Hansen Natural (HANS), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Teva Pharm Indus ADR (TEVA), Qwest Communications Intl (Q)

Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

• Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index for the week ended May 3 - previous reading came in at down 1.5%