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Wall Street Roundup: AIG bonuses being returned; markets lower

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-- Stocks lower: All the major stock indexes opened higher in early trading, then promptly fell into negative territory. The Dow Jones industrial average is down about 7 points.

-- Sales up: The Commerce Department reported this morning that retail sales in February were up 0.3% from a month earlier and 3.9% from a year earlier. Analysts had expected a month-to-month decline of 0.2%. -- AIG bonuses: In a deal struck by the Obama administration’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, AIG employees will return $45 million of the $168 million in controversial bonuses they received after the government bailout of the firm.

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-- IPO for KKR: Private equity giant KKR & Co. filed this morning to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The move comes more than two years after the firm dropped plans for a U.S. initial public offering.

--Nathaniel Popper

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