(Reuters) - Starbucks is expected to lay out its plan to accelerate sales of bagged coffee and other consumer products beyond its coffeehouses when it hosts its investor meeting in New York on Wednesday. The brass at Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) says the consumer packaged goods business should grow faster than its retail cafes, which total 17,000 globally.

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(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will have to disclose details about emergency loans made during the 2007-2009 financial meltdown, including who borrowed how much and what collateral was offered in return. The findings, which must be revealed in accordance with a deadline set by a wide-ranging rewrite of U.S. financial rules enacted in July, could shed light on who benefited most from central bank's controversial efforts to support financial institutions and credit markets.

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(Reuters) - Manufacturers in China and India cranked up the pace of production last month and Germany and France led the way in Europe, offering a boost to the global economy in spite of a spreading euro zone debt crisis. But while strong numbers from the largest European economies provide good news for policymakers worried about the sovereign debt crisis in Europe's single currency bloc, they highlighted a growing divergence among its members.

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(Reuters) - U.S. private employers added a better-than-forecast 93,000 jobs in November, the biggest rise since November 2007, after an upwardly revised gain of 82,000 the month before, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. The October figure was originally reported as a gain of 43,000. The median of estimates from 36 economists surveyed by Reuters for the ADP Employer Services report, jointly developed with Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, was for a rise of 69,000 private-sector jobs in November.

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(Reuters) - Stock indexes fell on Tuesday on lingering worries that the euro zone debt crisis will spread and as data showed monthly home prices fell much faster than expected. The euro slid to 10-week lows against the U.S. dollar, after a weekend rescue package for Ireland did little to stem fiscal concerns. The euro and stocks have been trading in sync with each other in recent weeks as European debt problems resurfaced, driving investors away from risky assets.

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(Reuters) - Prices of single-family homes in September fell more than twice as fast as expected from the prior month, while prices compared to a year earlier rose more slowly than forecast, according a widely watched index of U.S. home prices released on Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.8 percent in September from August on a seasonally adjusted basis.

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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces off with Republican congressional leaders over taxes on Tuesday in a test-of-wills that could foreshadow how the White House works with the opposition party in the coming two years. Obama will host Republicans John Boehner, the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mitch McConnell, the party's leader in the Senate, as well as Democrats Nancy Pelosi, the current Speaker, and Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, at 10:30 EST (1530 GMT) at the White House.

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(Reuters) - The euro zone's debt crisis deepened on Tuesday as investors pushed the spreads on Spanish, Italian and Belgian bonds to euro lifetime highs and Portugal warned of "intolerable risks" facing its banks. The euro dipped below $1.30 for the first time since mid-September, immune to new attempts by European policymakers to calm markets hell-bent on testing the EU's determination to shield its financially weak members and increasingly nervous about the possibility of future euro zone defaults.

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(Reuters) - Google Inc is inching toward buying e-commerce coupon website Groupon Inc for as much as $6 billion, the New York Times said on Tuesday. A deal, which could be in the range of $5 billion to $6 billion, could be struck as soon as this week but people with direct knowledge of the matter cautioned that the talks between Google and Groupon might still fall apart, the paper said.

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(Reuters) - Merck & Co (MRK.N) president Kenneth Frazier will succeed Richard Clark as the U.S. drugmaker's chief executive officer, effective Jan 1, the company said on Tuesday. Frazier, 55, initially made his name at Merck as general counsel by steering the company safely through daunting litigation over its withdrawn Vioxx painkiller, and more recently led the company's high-profile global pharmaceuticals division.

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