Erin Brockovich pointed to preemption laws in her campaign to take Essure off the market. Erin Brockovich, the consumer advocate who filed a multimillion case against Pacific Gas and Electric Co for groundwater contamination, had blamed preemption laws in her fight against birth control implant Essure.

New York City Opera Kenneth Rosen had indicated in a court hearing that the American opera company would be open to a merger.

Billionaire investor John Malone had said he would not consider Cablevision Systems Corp as a potential company that he would include in his planned merger of US cable companies.

Erin Brockovich said she wanted Essure, a birth control procedure by Bayer Corporation, taken off the market.

Twitter Inc would reportedly pay 3.25% from its upcoming public listing as fee to its bankers, sources told Bloomberg.

The government of President Barack Obama would allow states to reopen national parks using their own funds.

Eight nationally-run parks in Utah would reopen by Saturday using state funds. Despite the ongoing US government shutdown, five national parks in Utah will reopen on Saturday.

According to a securities filing, BlackBerry Ltd co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin were said to have an interest in putting up an alternative bid for the smartphone maker.

Trevena, whose pharmaceutical products are on the clinical study stage, would conduct an IPO through prospectus dissemination.

A share in CT REIT is worth CAD10 each and 26.35 million trust units were sold. The real estate investment trust of Canadian Tire Corp had raised CAD263.