Report: Toyota Plunking $1 Billion on Brazil Plant; India Housing Boom Ending; GDP Revised Up; Home Sales Rise, Values Fall; Anheuser Busch to Reject InBev Bid; Bank of America Sheds Jobs; Gold Shares Glow; Oshkosh Plunges on Lowered Outlook

Now going global by investing local has been completely turned on its head. Another leading global beverage company is making an offer to buy-out America’s biggest local brewer.

Investors better keep an eye on bonds this week.While the stock market may be more fun to follow, fixed income is often a stronger gauge of investor expectations of the economy, future U.S. Federal Reserve policy, and inflation.

After two weeks of nail-biting speculation, InBev NV pulled the trigger on its takeover offer to Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (BUD), putting up a $46.3 billion, or $65 per share, cash bid for the U.S. market leader.

The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investment guru Warren Buffett said in an interview published Saturday in the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Shares of the largest U.S. brewer, Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (InBev NV was considering a $46 billion takeover bid.

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Take two leading candy companies, mix in $23 billion, and add in a pinch of investing guru Warren Buffett and what do you get? How about one of the largest candy companies on the planet…