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    By Melly Alazraki

    | 9:48AM 11/04/2010
    The world's largest retailer, Walmart Stores, wants to get even larger: It has joined the bidding war for Indonesian retailer Matahari's hypermarket business, Hypermart, a deal that could be worth up to $1 billion, unnamed sources told Reuters on Thursday.

    By Hugh Collins

    | 6:46AM 9/07/2010
    British bank Barclays PLC (BSC) appointed Robert Diamond Jr. as CEO, according to The Wall Street Journal. Diamond is currently the head of Barclay's investment banking business. He will replace John Varley, who will step down on March 31, The Journal reported. Sponsored Links Diamond, 59, has...

    By Hugh Collins

    | 8:39AM 7/27/2010
    InterContinental Hotels Groups (IHG) slumped 5.2% to $17.25 a share in pre-market trading after the billionaire Barclay brothers sold their 10% stake in the company. Barclays Capital sold 30 million shares in InterContinental on behalf of Ellerman Corp., Bloomberg News reported without naming its...

    By Abigail Field

    | 2:00PM 2/27/2010
    The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about whether former Enron executive, Jeffrey Skilling, should get a new trial in a venue other than Houston, where his first trial took place.