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  • KKR to Goldman Breach Water Deal Dam in U.S.: Commodities

    Brandon Freiman was sizing up water investments for KKR & Co.’s $4.6 billion infrastructure fund in 2011 when he came across a debt-burdened New Jersey city that Tony Soprano skirts by to open the Time Warner Inc. HBO series.

  • MIT Officer Dies in Shooting Linked to Bombing Suspects

    As black bunting adorned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police station for slain officer Sean Collier, neighbors gathered in the Boston suburb of Somerville, bringing water, food and well wishes for his roommates and officers who stood guard in front of his house.

  • Feinberg Will Run Boston Fund for Marathon Bomb Victims

    Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who ran the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will play the same role for those affected by the Boston Marathon bombing, said Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

  • Nestle Names Brown CEO of North America Water Effective Feb. 1

    Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, named Tim Brown to head its North America water unit effective Feb. 1 as Kim Jeffery, 64, assumes a non-executive chairman role after 20 years in the post.

  • Waste Management Climbs on REIT Conversion Speculation

    Waste Management Inc. rose the most in 17 months after analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG said investors would benefit if the biggest U.S. trash hauler was converted into a real estate investment trust.

  • GE Falls as Energy Margins Temper Profit Gain Led by Finance

    General Electric Co. dropped in New York trading as tighter profit margins in industrial businesses from energy to aviation overshadowed third-quarter growth led by a rebounding finance unit.

  • TIMELINE: 787 Incidents, Most Recent to First Flight

    Below is a timeline of Boeing 787 Dreamliner incidents to the plane’s first flight in 2009: * Today, All Nippon, Japan Airlines ground their entire fleet of 787s after an All Nippon plane makes emergency landing because of smoke coming from aircraft *Both carriers cancel all 787 operations for tomorrow *All Nippon says emergency landing may have been caused by battery issue *Japan’s Transport Ministry says it considered today’s emergency landing as “serious” incident that could have led to an accident *India aviation regulator sets up team to study 787 problems; State-owned Air India has six Dreamliners * Jan.14, Japan transport ministry sets up team to investigate previous 787 incidents on ANA, JAL planes * Jan.13, fuel leaks on JAL plane at Tokyo’s Narita airport during maintenance; same plane leaked oil at Logan airport on Jan.8 * Jan.11, cockpit window on All Nippon 787 cracks during flight; Carrier’s another Dreamliner suffers oil leak * Jan.8, JAL 787 returns to Lo

  • GE Beating S&P Is Profit Goal as Immelt Decade Skirts Abyss

    Jeffrey Immelt, saying he holds few regrets after leading General Electric Co. in 10 years bracketed by terrorism and a nuclear meltdown, predicts a payoff through 2013 as reinvigorated industrial units expand globally.

  • GE Will Pay Extra Month of Benefits to 130,000 Retirees

    General Electric Co. will pay an extra month’s worth of pension benefits to about 130,000 retirees in December.

  • GE’s Immelt Says Solar-Panel Sales to Exceed $1 Billion by 2020

    General Electric Co. expects sales of its solar power panels to exceed $1 billion annually by 2020, Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt said today.

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