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In September 2006, Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC collapsed after losing more than $6 billion in the natural-gas futures market. In “Hedge Hogs,” Barbara T. Dreyfuss tells the story of the math-whiz traders whose risky dance with deregulation led to the collapse.
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Bertelsmann SE, Europe’s biggest media company, said first-quarter operating profit grew as the company trimmed costs and took full control of its BMG music- rights business.
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The Bretton Woods economic conference would make a great movie: Dashing celebrity economist John Maynard Keynes of the U.K. squared off against U.S. Treasury official Harry Dexter White, who was later revealed to be a Soviet spy.
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Bertelsmann SE’s Random House won European Union approval to buy Pearson Plc’s Penguin unit to create the largest book publisher in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Bertelsmann SE’s Random House sought European Union approval to buy Pearson Plc’s Penguin unit to create the largest book publisher in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Pearson Plc’s Penguin offered to overhaul pricing models for digital books to settle a European Union antitrust probe into whether they blocked competition.
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What if when you died you were instantly whisked back to the moment of your birth, to start over and try to get it right?
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Pearson Plc agreed to combine its Penguin unit with Bertelsmann SE’s Random House to create by far the largest book publisher in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Bertelsmann SE, Europe’s largest media company, is raising as much as 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion) from the sale of a stake in broadcasting unit RTL Group SA to gain funds for acquisitions.
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For Jonathan Kirsch, a Los Angeles attorney, it’s elementary: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary works published before 1923 are in the public domain.
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