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By David Mildenberg
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street private equity leaders Leon Black and George Roberts told Texas’s largest public pension it can meet an 8 percent annual return target by investing in distressed European assets and commodities.
Regulators are forcing sales of more than 1.5 trillion euros of assets, offering the chance to “cherry [...]

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Although less than a month after giving birth to Blue Ivy Carter, Beyonce is reportedly working on two new albums.

These days, most news about Beyonce involves Blue Ivy Carter. But Replica Rolex Watches, the singer made her first public appearance two weeks ago since giving birth and even announced a remix competition for 4 track [...]

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Australia Offices to Outperform Retail, Industrial

By Nichola Saminather
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Australian capital city office values will rise 3 percent over the next two years, a National Australia Bank Ltd. survey showed.
Office property values will gain 1.6 percent by December, the survey found. Retail property values will fall 0.5 percent by December and industrial real estate will remain flat, [...]

Whitney Houston is Dead at 48

Whitney Houston is Dead at 48
Singer Whitney Houston is dead at 48-years-old it has been confirmed by her publicist Kristen Foster. The AP is reporting that there are no details as to where or how she died, but that she died earlier today, Saturday February 11, 2012.
Houston was a best-selling super-star from the middle 1980s [...]

Barclays, UniCredit Bankers Should Face Trial, Pro

By Elisa Martinuzzi and Sonia Sirletti
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Former UniCredit SpA Chief Executive Officer Alessandro Profumo is among 20 UniCredit and Barclays Plc executives facing fraud charges in a tax-evasion probe led by a Milan prosecutor, according to court documents.
Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo asked a court in the city to put the 20 individuals [...]

Israel top court takes Palestinian detainee appeal

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing this week on the appeal of a Palestinian prisoner waging an unprecedented hunger strike that has stretched for more than two months, court officials and his lawyers said Monday.
Adnan Khader, a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group, is demanding he be released immediately. He [...]

S&P Sees Mounting Systemic Stress in Euro Area, Ch

By Bob Willis and Mike McKee
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — Standard & Poor’s, which downgraded nine euro-area countries today, sees “mounting systemic stress” in the region, while policy makers’ diagnosis hasn’t been “completely spot on,” the company’s managing director for sovereign ratings said.
“We see it more as an external issue than a fiscal issue,” John [...]

Potash Forecast Misses Estimates as Fertilizer Dem

By Christopher Donville
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Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s largest fertilizer producer by market value, forecast first-quarter profit that trailed analysts’ estimates as distributors delayed purchases.
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U.K. Stocks Climb to Two-Month High as Data Boosts

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Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — U.K. stocks climbed for a third day, extending a two-month high for the benchmark FTSE 100 Index, as manufacturing data added to optimism the global economy can withstand Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Kazakhmys Plc and Barclays Plc led mining and bank shares higher, rallying more than 5 percent on the [...]