(Reuters) - Mega-banks will have to pay more for U.S. deposit insurance under a new regulation set for final approval on Monday as the government advances a boatload of financial oversight changes. Other measures to be considered this week include curbing bonus plans at banks that encourage too much risk-taking, and limiting the role of much-maligned credit ratings. A congressional committee will also weigh the funding needs of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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(Reuters) - News that computer hackers had infiltrated the operator of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange is the latest blow for Wall Street as it works to repair an image with investors and traders dented by last year's "flash crash." Nasdaq OMX Group said on Saturday that it found "suspicious files" on its U.S. computer servers, but said there was no evidence hackers had accessed or acquired customer information or that its trading platforms were compromised.

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(Reuters) - Stocks traded flat on Friday as investors attempted to reconcile conflicting messages on the U.S. economy from the January jobs report. Nonfarm payrolls last month grew by just 36,000, the Labor Department said, far less than the 145,000 increase that economists had expected, but the jobless rate fell to 9.0 percent from 9.4 percent. "The number is disappointing, but when we get disappointing numbers it permits investors to see an ongoing continuation of accommodative monetary policy." said Eric Teal, chief investment officer at First Citizens Bancshares Inc in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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(Reuters) - Securities regulators are eyeing a spring target to unveil market structure reform proposals in the wake of the May 6 flash crash, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said. Schapiro said on Friday the agency is looking at a variety of areas, from new market-making obligations for high-frequency traders to a new limit up/limit down trading parameters.

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(Reuters) - U.S. employment rose by a meager 36,000 jobs in January, far less than expected, as severe snow storms slammed large parts of the nation, but the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since April 2009. The increase in nonfarm payrolls reported by the Labor Department on Friday was a quarter of the 145,000 increase that economists had expected. But there were sharp differences in the information contained in the two surveys the Labor Department uses to generate the employment report.

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(Reuters) - Health insurer Aetna Inc forecast 2011 earnings well ahead of Wall Street's target on Friday and dramatically increased its dividend payout, sending shares up more than 8 percent. The No 3. U.S. health insurer, which posted a slightly higher-than-expected quarterly profit, forecast 2011 operating earnings, excluding items, of $3.70 to $3.80 per share. Analysts were looking for $3.27. Aetna's forecast equates to slightly higher operating earnings in 2011 than the $3.68 per share it reported in 2010. Forecasts from rivals such as UnitedHealth Group Inc and Humana Inc have included at least the possibility of declining profit in 2011 although many analysts have deemed those forecasts conservative.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A top government financial regulator said on Friday banks have taken only about half the hit they will experience from commercial real estate losses, and that while banks will remain under strain from commercial properties, no systemically important firms appear at risk. "While we expect significant ongoing CRE-related problems, it appears that worst-case scenarios are becoming increasingly unlikely," Patrick Parkinson, the Federal Reserve's director of banking supervision and regulation, told Congress.

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(Reuters) - Germany and France proposed a competitiveness pact for Europe on Friday and EU leaders discussed strengthening a euro zone rescue fund, hoping to win back market confidence in the bloc's public finances. Paris and Berlin -- the driving forces behind euro zone policy -- set out a wish-list of measures they want euro zone and other countries to sign up to including:

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(Reuters) - No. 2 U.S. homebuilder PulteGroup Inc's (PHM.N) quarterly pretax loss narrowed and said its underlying business is operating at about a break-even level. "After four years of steep declines, the U.S. housing market continues to show signs of stabilizing, albeit at historically low levels," Chief Executive Richard Dugas Jr said in a statement.

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(Reuters) - Corning Inc (GLW.N) said it would increase sales by more than 50 percent by 2014, banking on the popularity of devices such as tablets and smartphones to drive demand for its glass. In its display segment, which makes up the bulk of Corning's profit, the company said that demand for touchscreen devices and liquid crystal display televisions would create demand for an extra 2 billion square feet of LCD demand in the next three years.

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