(Reuters) - Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc (GMCR.O) shares fell as much as 10 percent on Monday to hit a 52-week low after Kroger Co (KR.N) said it was planning to start single-serve coffee cups. On Friday, Kroger, the biggest U.S. supermarket chain, told Reuters it would begin selling store-branded single-serve coffee cups compatible with Green Mountain's popular Keurig brewers.

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(Reuters) - Stocks rose on Thursday after China's central bank cut lending and deposit rates, but indexes were well off their session highs as comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke disappointed hope for further stimulus measures from the central bank. The surprise move by China's central bank to lower benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points in an effort to rejuvenate economic growth came after comments by Federal Reserve officials increased investor expectations for more Fed support.

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(Reuters) - The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell last week for the first time since April, a hint that a slowdown in hiring last month may only be temporary. The data on state unemployment claims, released by the Labor Department on Thursday, takes some of the edge off a report last week that showed a sharp slowdown in job creation in May.

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(Reuters) - China delivered twin surprises on interest rates on Thursday, cutting borrowing costs to combat faltering growth while giving banks additional flexibility to set competitive lending and deposit rates in a step along the path of liberalization. China's first rate cut since the global financial crisis underlined heightened concern among policymakers worldwide that the euro area's deepening debt problems are threatening economic growth.

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(Reuters) - Household debt fell at a 0.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2012 and household wealth increased by $2.8 trillion, the Federal Reserve said on Thursday. It was the sixteenth straight quarter of declining household debt, suggesting the country's deleveraging process continues. The Fed also revised prior readings on credit, which had initially showed household debt expanding in the fourth quarter.

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(Reuters) - Stocks extended their most recent selloff on Monday as investors reacted to the latest indications of an economic slowdown and looked ahead to events this week that could help ease Europe's debt crisis. The decline extended Friday's steep drop that wiped out the Dow industrials' gain for the year, although additional declines may lack intensity after indexes fell below key technical support levels.

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(Reuters) - New orders for factory goods fell in April for the third time in four months as demand slipped for everything from cars and machinery to computers, the latest worrisome sign for the economy. The Commerce Department said on Monday orders for manufactured goods dropped 0.6 percent during the month. The government also revised its estimate for new orders in March to show a steeper decline.

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(Reuters) - Top shareholders of Chesapeake Energy Corp will take control of the board of directors after the natural gas producer came under intense pressure to reform following a governance crisis and poor financial performance. Chesapeake said on Monday it would replace four directors on the nine-member board, giving Mason Hawkins's Southeastern Asset Management three seats and billionaire Carl Icahn one.

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(Reuters) - Top executives at Bank of America Corp did not tell shareholders just prior to a 2008 vote on its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co that losses were mounting and expected to weigh down earnings for years, papers filed in private shareholder litigation show. But the bank and former Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis said in their own court papers that they should not be liable to shareholders who claimed to have lacked information they needed to vote on the once $50 billion merger.

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(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) shareholders voted in far larger numbers than in the past against the re-election of Chief Executive Mike Duke and others to the company's board in a rebuke after a Mexican bribery scandal. Still, with a strong majority of votes cast in favor of each director, a boardroom shake-up did not appear likely.

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