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Actavis Inc.’s $5 billion deal to buy Warner Chilcott Plc brings in a new stable of brand-name women’s health drugs. It also comes with headquarters relocated to Ireland and lower taxes for the combined company.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigators are poring over 1 million e-mails and instant messages as part of their price-manipulation probe of a swaps benchmark that helps determine interest rates on everything from annuities to bonds linked to skyscrapers.
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The investigation into possible oil- price fixing gathered pace as trading houses from Glencore Xstrata Plc, the $70 billion mining firm, to Gunvor Group Ltd. were asked to provide information to European regulators.
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The European oil price-fixing probe expanded as Neste Oil Oyj, Finland’s only refiner, said it was asked to provide information regarding potential manipulation of global crude and biofuel markets.
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Any failure of a commodity trader wouldn’t pose a substantial systemic risk to the economy and competitors probably would fill the space, according to Craig Pirrong, professor of finance at the University of Houston.
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Former National Football League coach Jack Pardee, who also orchestrated the so-called Run and Shoot offense at the University of Houston that helped Andre Ware win the Heisman Trophy, has died of gall bladder cancer. He was 76.
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Michael Economides , professor at the University of Houston, comments on supply and demand for oil. He spoke at an International Association of Independent Tanker Owners conference in London today.
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The oilfield of the future is taking shape two miles underwater.
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On a good day, 27-year-old Bobby Timberlake at CME Group Inc. in Chicago rounds up $2.5 billion from the world’s biggest traders and banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. to cover their losses in the $639 trillion derivatives markets.
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Companies that fix prices and hide it may be easier to spot than you think, according to researchers Tanja Artiga Gonzalez, Markus Schmid and David Yermack.
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