(Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs will attend a meeting in California on Thursday with President Barack Obama, a source familiar with the meeting said. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will also attend the meeting, the source told Reuters. The timing of the meeting coincides with a report in the National Enquirer with pictures purporting to be of a frail Jobs arriving at the Stanford Cancer Center. The report is unverified.

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(Reuters) - Auto parts supplier Lear Corp (LEA.N) said on Thursday that it would split its stock 2-for-1, begin a $400 million share buyback program and start paying a quarterly dividend, steps that show its progress in shoring up its balance sheet after a 2009 bankruptcy. The supplier of auto seating and electrical systems said it would pay a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on a pre-split basis. Lear, which emerged from bankruptcy in November 2009, has benefited from a reduction in costs and production capacity and a rebound in global auto production over the past 18 months.

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(Reuters) - G20 president France lowered expectations on Thursday of a deal on how to measure imbalances in the global economy when finance ministers and central bankers of the world's big economies meet this weekend. On the eve of the talks, the International Monetary Fund warned that global economic imbalances have increased and were likely to grow further unless policies changed, and said there was a risk of emerging market economies overheating.

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(Reuters) - Diversified U.S. manufacturer SPX Corp (SPW.N) topped Wall Street's profit expectations as strong demand for equipment used in food and beverage production offset lower selling prices for electrical transformers. The company held steady the 2011 profit forecast it issued last month, which calls for growth of about 20 percent, and Chief Executive Chris Kearney said demand for SPX's products was picking up. "Order activity has been better at the outset of 2011 than it was a year ago," Kearney told investors on a conference call. "We believe our company, as a whole, is in the early stages of recovery."

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(Reuters) - Nestle (NESN.VX), the world's biggest food maker, said strong demand in emerging markets would help it offset a steep rise in input costs in 2011 after it beat sales forecasts for 2010. The maker of Nescafe coffee and Gerber baby food said it was well placed to cope with rising commodity prices by making cost savings and pushing up its own prices.

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(Reuters) - When arch-hawk Axel Weber withdrew last week from the contest to head the European Central Bank, the euro and bond yields dipped -- a sign of how crucial markets think the ECB's president may be in shaping its policy. The fevered speculation over who will succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as ECB president when his eight-year term ends in October seems excessive to some central bank watchers. After all, the ECB's decision-making process is designed to stress consensus and limit the power of any one individual.

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(Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday after estimate-beating results from technology bellwether Dell and a deal for Sanofi-Aventis to buy Genzyme for $20.1 billion in cash. French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA (SASY.PA) agreed to buy Genzyme Corp (GENZ.O) for a sweetened $74 a share as merger and acquisition activity continued to bring fresh cash into the market. Its shares rose 1.5 percent to $75.43.

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(Reuters) - U.S. core producer prices in January rose to their highest rate in more than two years, hinting at a build-up in inflation pressures as the recovery gathers pace, a potentially troubling development for the Federal Reserve. A separate report from the Fed showed industrial production fell unexpectedly in January, largely because of a drop in utilities output as temperatures returned to normal following an unusually cold December.

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(Reuters) - Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) filed for bankruptcy protection and said it planned to close nearly one-third of its bookstores, after years of shriveling sales that made it impossible to manage its crushing debt load. The long-expected Chapter 11 filing will give the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain a chance to fix its finances and shrink its business at a time when buyers are increasingly going online rather than visiting megastores. The bankruptcy could help larger rival Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N), which also is struggling, by reducing the number of competing stores.

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(Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA agreed to buy Genzyme Corp with a sweetened $20.1 billion cash offer, plus payments tied to the success of the U.S. biotech group's drugs, the companies said on Wednesday. The acquisition -- which comes nine months after Sanofi CEO Chris Viehbacher first put the idea to Genzyme's Henri Termeer -- is expected to boost Sanofi's earnings from the first year after completion by giving it a new platform in rare diseases.

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