Libya exercises right of first refusal over Marathon Oil's shareholdings in Waha Oil

In nixing the deal to allow the exit of Marathon Oil, a below market offer would be made shortly by the Libya owned NOC for the shareholdings.


NYSE does system check in anticipation of Twitter IPO

In order to avoid the fiasco of Facebook on the NASDAQ, the NYSE ran simulated IPO tests to iron out glitches and kinks in its systems.

Report recommends debt shelter instead of bank break up for RBS

In a recommendatory report, Rothschild said it would be best to have the bank's bad debts placed in an internal bad bank instead of breaking up the bank.

BlackStone President sells more shares

Blackstone Group LP President Tony James sold 3.25 million shares managed through a firm controlled by his family.


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India Infoline, in response to market movement away from equities, is closing down its retail brokerage division.
In a MEED Projects Study, it was found that forty major projects in the Sultanate are in the pipeline with total cost to reach USD112 billion.
The purpose of Mitsubishi Motors Corp's public share offer is to pay back shareholders through the buyback of preferred shares.
In a filing with the US Supreme Court, Argentina seek stay of payment order issued by lower court. The Argentine government had filed an urgent motion in US Appeals Court last Friday to stay the hold order requiring the government to pay USD1.
The current freeze order for domestic IPOs in China forced lender Huishang Bank Corp to list its IPO in Hong Kong's index.
Twitter quitters would prove to be a challenge to investors in the social media site's upcoming IPO, a report said.
Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp said they had formed an alliance to bid for the US Air Force long-range bomber program.
Provenge-maker Dendreon Corp was in the process of finding buyers, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.
JPMorgan to pay FHFA USD5.1 billion as settlement for loans and mortgage backed securities issues. A settlement agreement was finalized between JPMorgan Chase & Co and the Federal Housing Finance Agency on claims over defective home loans and mortgage backed securities.
The approval for a bridge loan was given to McKesson to facilitate its acquisition of Celesio AG. The largest pharmaceutical distributor in the United States, McKesson Corp, had recently obtained a USD5.