AP - A "pink pill" to boost women's sex drive remains elusive after a decade of searching by some of the world's biggest drugmakers. - [Read more]

AP - Businesses cut inventories in December, indicating caution about strength of economic recovery. - [Read more]

AP - Federal prosecutors say tobacco distributors used dummy corporations and false invoices to evade more than $35 million in California excise taxes over the past five years. - [Read more]

AP - A trade unionist says two Nigerian oil workers have been found dead in the oil-rich Niger Delta region after being kidnapped 10 days ago.

AP - The Obama administration's top housing official says several new programs are in the works to help try to revive the housing market. - [Read more]

AP - Here are the 20 most economically stressed counties with populations of at least 25,000 and their January 2010 Stress scores, according to The Associated Press Economic Stress Index: - [Read more]

Reuters - India's 2009/10 exports dropped 4.7 percent year-on-year to $176.5 billion, Trade Secretary Rahul Khullar said, while imports fell by 8.2 percent in the financial year to $278.7 billion, hit by the global financial crisis-led economic slowdown.

BusinessWeek - On my first day at Yale (Yale Executive MBA Profile), Deputy Dean Stan Garstka told me the experience of Yale would not only provide me with a world-class education but also change who I am and how I think about business. He was right. I started the second year at business school feeling I was coming into my own with a new perspective. Business concepts that felt so loosely woven together over the course of the first year have become the foundation for classes in the second. Financial Management has led to Corporate Finance and Investor. ... - [Read more]

BusinessWeek - As orders for locomotive engines picked up this spring, the GE Transportation factory near Erie, Pa., started hiring to fill positions, which had fallen to 4,000 from 5,500 last year. At 18-employee Pilla Performance Eyewear in Ridgefield, Conn., business ramped up enough that it expanded its staff by eight. And at medical device maker Theragenics , based in Buford, Ga., an unexpected spike in first-quarter orders led the company to add a few dozen workers to its roughly 500-person head count. Finally, U.S. companies are staffing up. - [Read more]

AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: - [Read more]