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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, flags with the company logo of Infineon Technologies are seen prior to the annual shareholders meeting in Munich, southern Germany. German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG is selling a unit that makes products for wireless telephones to California's Intel Corp. in a $1.4 billion cash deal, the companies said Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein, File)
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FILE - In this file photo taken July 12, 2010, the exterior of Intel Corp. headquarters is shown, in Santa Clara, Calif. German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG is selling a unit that makes products for wireless telephones to California's Intel Corp. in a $1.4 billion cash deal, the companies said Monday, Aug. 30. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Lehman Brothers executive Richard Fuld Jr. (right) told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that Lehman was repeatedly denied measures that could have saved the firm. Thomas Baxter (left), general counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said regulators lacked authority to provide the aid.
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Johnnie Coleman, of MainOne Cable, walks past submarine-line terminating equipment at the cable-landing station in Lagos, Nigeria, on Aug. 5. This summer, a new $250 million MainOne cable snaked along the West African coastline, ending at Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital. (Associated Press)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows the new Apple iPad display, at a news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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This product image provided by Sony Corp., shows the Sony Reader Pocket Edition, in black. (AP Photo/Sony Corp.) NO SALES
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In this Aug. 24, 2010, photograph, a row of new homes is seen in the Boulevard Heights development in St. Louis. Home prices rose in June for the third straight month amid a burst of home-buying due to tax incentives that have since expired. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Carine Abraham and Austin Savill, both 19, stand in line near a 50 percent off sign as they wait to make a purchase at an Aeropostale store in Paramus, N.J., on July 27, 2010. Consumer spending rose 0.4 percent in July after three lackluster months, the Commerce Department said Monday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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ADVANCE FOR 12:01 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 30, and thereafter; Graphic shows the prevalence of PSTD in veterans and spending on the drug
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La Miniatura, the first of Frank Lloyd Wright's textile-block homes is for sale in Pasadena, Calif. The experimental home, built in 1923, has been on the market for two years. (Associated Press)
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A man believed to be North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (center, facing away from camera, is greeted at Changchun rail station in Changchun, China, on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Mr. Kim reportedly has met top Chinese leaders in an apparent bid for Beijing's diplomatic and financial support for a succession plan involving his third and youngest son, who is said to be traveling with him. (AP Photo/Kyodo News Agency)
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FILE - In this file photograph taken Nov. 15, 2007, health care products maker Johnson & Johnson's CEO William Weldon is seen in the company's world headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. With Johnson & Johnson's once-golden reputation tarnished by 11 recalls of medicines, contact lenses and hip implants in 11 months, its chief executive said Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, he knows the company let consumers down. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, left, and Donald L. Kohn, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, walk along the veranda of the Jackson Lake Lodge with the Grand Tetons in the distance, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, at the start of the annual Federal Reserve conference in Jackson, Wyo. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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File - In this Sept. 5, 2006 file photo, the Intel Corp. company logo is displayed at its headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. The big chip-maker Intel Corp. is cutting its sales forecast for the current quarter, adding fresh evidence Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, that a rickety economy is putting a damper on the back-to-school shopping season. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, and Donald L. Kohn, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, right, are joined by Kevin M. Warsh, governor of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, on the veranda of the Jackson Lake Lodge at the start of the annual Federal Reserve conference, in Jackson, Wyo., Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 16, 2010, Hewlett-Packard inks are seen on display in Mountain View, Calif. Hewlett-Packard is raising its offer for data-storage maker 3Par to about $1.69 billion. That tops rival Dell Inc.'s offer Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, of $1.52 billion. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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Meaghan Martin, left, and Chloe Bridges, stars of Disney's "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam," discuss fashion trends while they shop at the Times Square American Eagle store, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in New York. The duo, friends in real life, took a tour of the busy store to point out their favorite trends of the season. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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This picture provided by Sotheby's shows John Currin's 1991 work, "Shakespeare Actress," which will be one of more than 400 works from the corporate contemporary art collection of the failed investment bank Lehman Brothers that will go on sale at auction this fall. Corporations worried about the bottom line are taking a look at their office walls. Over decades, some of the world's wealthiest banks and companies have built up art collections, rich in modern masters, that are the envy of many museums. Now, many are selling them off some from choice but others, like the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, to pay off hungry creditors.(AP Photo/Sotheby's)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "Adding [cotton trousers and shirts] would not have a negative impact on U.S. textile producers," wrote Thomas Donohue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's CEO.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Jimmy Fallon (center), host of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, is joined by John Shaffner (left), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences chairman and chief executive officer; and the show's executive producer, Don Mischer, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
