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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization proposal for Dell Inc, banking sources told Thomson Reuters LPC on Thursday. Full Story
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SAC lawyers met prosecutors to argue against charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven A. Cohen's lawyers made their best case argument a month ago to federal prosecutors about why the hedge fund billionaire and his SAC Capital Advisors should not be charged with criminal wrongdoing in a long-running insider trading investigation. Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven A. Cohen's lawyers made their best case argument a month ago to federal prosecutors about why the hedge fund billionaire and his SAC Capital Advisors should not be charged with criminal wrongdoing in a long-running insider trading investigation. Full Story
NYSE says AEP, NextEra trades stand after crash at open
NEW YORK (Reuters) - All trades in American Electric Power Inc <AEP.N> and NextEra Energy Inc <NEE.N> in a crash that happened in the first minute of trading on Thursday will stand, the New York Stock Exchange said, following the latest in a flurry of unexplained sharp drops in the market. Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - All trades in American Electric Power Inc <AEP.N> and NextEra Energy Inc <NEE.N> in a crash that happened in the first minute of trading on Thursday will stand, the New York Stock Exchange said, following the latest in a flurry of unexplained sharp drops in the market. Full Story
Ally settlement may be a boon for ResCap bondholders
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While bond insurers MBIA Inc <MBI.N> and FGIC Corp receive the lion's share of Ally Financial Inc's <GKM.N> $2.1 billion contribution to the debts of mortgage lender Residential Capital LLC, hedge funds like Paulson & Co may have obtained a better deal. Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While bond insurers MBIA Inc <MBI.N> and FGIC Corp receive the lion's share of Ally Financial Inc's <GKM.N> $2.1 billion contribution to the debts of mortgage lender Residential Capital LLC, hedge funds like Paulson & Co may have obtained a better deal. Full Story
U.S. sees first drop in F-35 costs; other programs steady
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress it expected a 1 percent drop in the cost of its biggest weapons program, the Lockheed Martin Corp. <LMT.N> F-35 fighter jet, while averting the huge cost increases seen on other weapons programs in recent years. Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress it expected a 1 percent drop in the cost of its biggest weapons program, the Lockheed Martin Corp. <LMT.N> F-35 fighter jet, while averting the huge cost increases seen on other weapons programs in recent years. Full Story

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