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Foster’s Group Ltd. may attract buyout offers from rival brewers including SABMiller Plc after a bid for its winemaking unit showed interest from bidders in breaking up the company.

7-Eleven Inc., operator of the eponymous convenience-store chain, is in talks to buy Casey’s General Stores Inc., thwarting Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.’s purchase attempts, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

National Australia Bank Ltd.’s planned A$13.3 billion ($12.2 billion) takeover of asset manager Axa Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. was blocked a second time by the regulator, clearing the way for AMP Ltd. to renew its challenge.

Trend Micro Inc. rose the most in more than a year in Tokyo trading after Taiwan’s DigiTimes reported the Japanese maker of antivirus software has been approached for a possible takeover.

Korea National Oil Corp.’s $2.6 billion bid for Dana Petroleum Plc, the state-owned company’s first hostile takeover attempt, shows South Korea is turning aggressive to lock up oil supplies after acquisitions by Chinese peers jumped eightfold in three years.

Asian stocks rose for the first time in three days and the Australian dollar gained to a four-month high as employment grew more than expected. Commodities fell on speculation China’s government was investigating rubber trades.

The United Steelworkers union said it will file a trade complaint with the U.S. government against renewable-energy products from China, urging investigation of subsidies and preferences given by that nation.

The Federal Reserve in its latest survey has found more regions of the country reported slower growth as the economy lost momentum in the late summer.

Obama aims to spend $50 billion on transportation infrastructure

The investment outfit and its Brazilian backers will need to do more than just cut costs at the troubled burger chain

Large, reputable foreign companies are taking up residence on a dodgy stretch of Wall Street

Sept. 8 -- Charles Peabody, analyst at Portales Partners LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Julie Hyman and Mark Crumpton about the outlook for the principal-strategies group at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Sam Gustin at AOL Daily Finance has written one of the most in-depth journalistic pieces I've seen to date on what's happening over at the FCC, the Google/Verizon deal, and how current trends in telecom policy-making are playing out.

Tech companies file patents for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they're already discarded ideas that the company would rather other companies not use.

Is T-Mobile about to receive an iPhone present, according to a Tweet from a Wired magazine editor, but strangely, they will receive only the iPhone 3GS, not the iPhone 4. The Tweet, from Chris Anderson said : A T-Mobile manager casually mentioned to me that they're going to get the iPhone 3GS later this year.

Sept. 8 -- Alessandro Roccati, director at Macquarie Group Ltd., talks about long-term market uncertainty in the wake of the stress tests for European banks.

Fabio Capello has confirmed he will quit as England coach after Euro 2012. The 64-year-old said he was not interested in a new contract with the national side after the tournament in Poland and Ukraine.

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General Motors Co has begun testing applications that allow subscribers to its OnStar vehicle communication system to update their Facebook status verbally and to receive text messages audibly...

Michael Burry, who headed the hedge fund that made money on his prediction of the housing market collapse, is investing in farmable land, small technology companies and gold.

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Virgin Money has created 200 jobs in Edinburgh as it seeks to make inroads into the British banking sector.

Crude oil prices rose for the first time in three days while U.S. stocks advanced slightly with the major indexes gaining between 0.44 and 0.91 percent. U.S. gold prices edged $1.80 lower Wednesday, retreating from a record high...

Sept. 8 -- Brian Marshall, an analyst at Gleacher & Co., discusses the competition between Apple Inc.

Sept. 8 -- Builders are buying lots at less than half their original prices from lenders eager to move distressed construction loans off their books.

June 23 -- Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin reports on some Singaporeans' concerns about potential social ills arising from the introduction of casinos to the island-state. The $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands, owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corp., hosts its grand opening today.

Airport security scanners that literally see through your clothes are contentious .

Sept. 7 -- William Galston, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, talks about President Barack Obama's proposals to expand tax relief for businesses and boost federal spending to fix roads, railways and runways.

Sept. 8 -- Christopher Wheeler, an analyst at Mediobanca SpA, talks about the outlook for European banks.

British TV host Piers Morgan will take over Larry King's nightly interview show, capping months of speculation about a key program in CNN's lineup.