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The owner of the New York Stock Exchange, whose trading floor helped fuel Warren Buffett’s fortune and financed industries from shipping to semiconductors, is about to be bought by a 12-year-old energy market operator founded with money from a legal settlement.
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The U.S. is focusing too much attention on helping students pursue four-year college degrees, when two-year and occupational programs may better prepare them for the job market, a Harvard University report said.
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Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.’s handling of Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering has already led to lawsuits and may cost brokers $100 million. What Securities and Exchange Commission officials will want to know is whether the market operator put the public’s interest first.
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Activision Blizzard Inc. is seeking to delay a trial against the creators of its blockbuster game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” to bring in a new lead lawyer as the possible damages it faces have ballooned to $1 billion.
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The New York Mets owners have to give up as much as $83 million in illegal profits from Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and face a trial over another $303 million of their own money to determine if they acted in bad faith, a judge ruled.
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For the U.S. Justice Department, antitrust concerns in Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. ’s proposed takeover of NYSE Euronext went beyond a monopoly in stock listings.
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Geraldine Damiani Brezler took out a $5,000 student loan in the late 1960s to study at the State University of New York. She became a nurse, got married, bought a house and repaid the debt in less than three years.
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Pfizer Inc. agreed to pay about $330 million to resolve claims that its Prempro menopause drug caused breast cancer, in the first large-scale settlements in eight years of litigation, two people familiar with the accords said.
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KKR & Co., TPG Capital and Silver Lake are among the buyout firms that have initial interest in making an investment in Knight Capital Group Inc., according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Microsoft Corp., the largest software maker, said it would be “fair and reasonable” in licensing its industry-standard technology, pledging to negotiate with competitors instead of trying to block sales of their products.
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