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Editor's Note: This post is written by guest author Andreas Bernstrom , a former Goldman Sachs alum who has worked at TradeDoubler, was COO of Taptu, and in 2009 joined Rebtel as CEO.

Dana Holding is a revitalized, retooled company after emerging from Chapter 11 four years ago and gaining a new CEO with a great track record, Barron's reports.

Xstrata A could have dealings with the European Commission as it investigates Glencore International Plc.'s A proposed $35 billion acquisition of shares in the company that it does not own.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is mulling over starting an investment fund that will specialize exclusively on cloud computing startups, Bloomberg reports .

Charlie Rose recently joined Warren Buffett for a rare inside look at Berkshire Hathaway.

After she was laid off from Merrill Lynch in 2008, Erin Duffy decided not to jump back into the Wall Street game.

Jefferies Group upped their price target on shares of HHGregg to $12.50 in a research note issued on Friday.

O'Reilly Automotive 's stock had its "neutral" rating reaffirmed by analysts at Nomura in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday.

The Eastern European Trust Plc, the stock fund run by BlackRock Inc. that beat the regional index by 19 percentage points in the past three years, has cut holdings in Russia before presidential elections and is buying in Turkey.

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is in talks to seize Chicago's John Hancock Center from owners including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Whitehall real estate unit, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.

Federal prosecutors and securities regulators said insider trading charges were filed against hedge-fund manager Douglas F. Whitman , alleging he was connected to the illegal trading network of imprisoned investor Raj Rajaratnam , founder of the now-defunct Galleon Group.

Zombie life insurer Phoenix has called time on talks over a possible 1bn takeover by private equity group CVC Capital Partners.

State Street Corp has hired former Bank of America Corp's executive Dan McNicholas as head of sales for its alternative investment servicing business in the Asia Pacific region.

Beijing, Feb 10 : The International Dairy Queen , part of American business mogul Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, plans to open 1,000 ice cream stores in China, a media report said Friday.

Copper traders turned bullish for the first time in seven weeks on mounting confidence that global growth will strengthen, diminishing stockpiles after a year in which mine production fell by a record amount.

In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

St. Louis -- NewsChannel 5 viewer Marge Paszek grew up going to the Peabody Opera House, so she wanted to know if the acoustics have changed since it reopened.

SAM STOVALL: Here's The Best Way To Profit From The January Effect, Presidential Cycle And S&P 5-Day Rule According to T. Rowe Price , 55 percent of Generation X and Y investors - defined as ages 35-50 and 21-34, respectively - don't plan to do a thing with their IRA and/or aren't sure whether they want to.

Defensive linemen, in particular, had a 42 per cent higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared with U.S. men in general.

Southern 's stock had its "neutral" rating reaffirmed by Zacks Investment Research in a research note issued on Wednesday.