Analysis: Big M&A banks move down-market in hunt for fees

Source: The Star Malaysia

NEW YORK (Reuters): The slow market for merger deals is driving big-name investment banks into combat with smaller rivals for business from companies they usually ignore. Goldman Sachs Group Inc , Morgan Sta ...
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Ill. growers: Mild winter means earlier peaches

Source: The Times

When it comes to southwestern Illinois orchards' peach crops this year, Chris Eckert and other growers have every reason to feel a bit warm and fuzzy. Blessed by a mild winter and dodging spring freezes that commonly take their toll ...
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Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest: The biggest ten days before November?

Source: Swing State Project

This past week offered a window into a favorite parlor game of all political watchers. On Wednesday, Quinnipiac dropped a poll in the Sunshine State of Florida showing Mitt Romney sitting with a somewhat solid lead of six points (47-41) over ...
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Camper slips to third as winds desert fleet

Source: Stuff.co.nz

Team New Zealand's round the world slipped to third on the latest leg to Portugal after the fleet had engaged in a furious tacking duel. The Volvo Ocean Race yachts were stalled in single digit speeds as they awaited the next crucial juncture in this t ...
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English and its many avatars

Source: The Hindu

The Malayali goes to the bank to get a housing 'lawn'... and calls nurse 'nezhs' English — the native language of England — has come to stay as the link language of our country. English medium schools are at a premium compared to their vernacular ...
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Volvo Ocean Race : Groupama 4 on the Grand Banks

Source: BYM News

Still on a beat in the area surrounding Newfoundland's Grand Banks, Groupama 4 has got back in contact with the head of the fleet during the numerous tack changes over the past 24 hours. They have half a day to go before th ...
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Tonight in Music: Boat, Mbilly, John C. Reilly and Friends, Motley Cruise, Duck Little Brother Duck, Cool Nutz and Mark Lanegan

Source: The Portland Mercury

(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Although the earnest punk-rock adherent in me is perturbed by BOAT's dilettantish approach to making music (creative helmsman D. Crane once admitted that the band isn't a "primary focus of his" ...
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Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor contender serving life behind bars

Source: The Telegraph

The 44-year-old Neapolitan has trodden an extraordinary path since being arrested for the killings on Christmas Eve, 1991, and given a life sentence for murder. Twelve years ago, having never acted in his life, he became part of a ...
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Eurovision? We've laughed, we've cried...

Source: The Telegraph

The 1971 contest was staged in the Gaiety, a Dublin music hall. By the time that they’d crammed the small theatre with cameras, lights, sound, commentators boxes and a full orchestra, there was hardly room for an audience. But then only 15 countrie ...
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