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Shares of WuXi PharmaTech rise 40% in their debut session.

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In a Credit Crisis, Large Mortgages Grow Costly - New York Times
Problems in the subprime mortgage market have spread, and the market for big mortgages has dried up
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Sorting Through the Buyout Freezeout
Now that the buyout boom has officially gone bust and the credit markets are in meltdown, it’s time […]

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BusinessWeek’s Gene Marcial says the latest round of panic selling presents steeled investors with a unique buying opportunity

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It takes discipline and organizational skills to guide clients in creating, building and protecting their wealth. So it’s not surprising that when Siri Berg, now director of Credit Suisse’s private banking group in San Francisco, has trained for grueling athletic contests — multiple 10K runs and at least four triathlons involving competitive swimming, biking and running — she’s approached these like business problems.

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Improvisational theater puts pairs of actors on an empty stage to spontaneously create dialogue and plots. When done well, it can be wildly creative; when not, it’s an opportunity to fall flat in front of an unforgiving crowd.

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Dagny Maidman started her professional life as a lawyer. She was a young attorney working for the San Francisco firm then known as McCutcheon, Doyle, Brown & Emerson (now Bingham McCutcheon), when she represented a plaintiff suing an investment bank.

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — French bank BNP Paribas, along with German banks Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG, are among the creditors of HomeBanc Corp., a U.S. mortgage lender that filed for bankruptcy on Friday.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Buying an index fund isn’t always as straightforward as it might seem.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Mortgage lenders going bankrupt, hedge funds evaporating, the stock market gyrating wildly: What does it all mean for you and me?

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Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his ”Jeopardy” and ”Wheel of Fortune” game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82.

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