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Netflix soars, Apple's holiest iPad and Americans dine out more

Red arrows across the board today on all three major indices (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) despite some solid IPOs from the likes of Etsy (ETSY), Party City (PRTY) and Virtu (VIRT).

Here are some of the other stories Yahoo Finance is keeping an eye on today.

Netflix soars
Netflix (NFLX) is soaring to a record high after the streaming video company reported it added almost five million new subscribers in the first quarter... pushing its total to more than 60 million.

Japan becomes America's largest creditor
What happened to the Big Red Menace? New data shows Japan, not China, is now the biggest foreign holder of U.S. bonds. It's the first time China hasn't held the top spot since the financial crisis.

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Changing habits
If you are what you eat - you are a restaurant meal! The Commerce Department reporting that for the first time since it began keeping records in 1992, Americans spent more at restaurants and bars than grocery stores last month.

Papal iPad
The Apple (AAPL) iPad that formerly belonged to Pope Francis sold at auction for more than $30,000. The money will of course be donated to charity; in this case a South American school,