Companies based in emerging markets will probably drive global mergers and acquisitions, as countries such as Brazil, India and China fuel economic growth, said bankers meeting this week in Davos, Switzerland.

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Emerging Markets Will Drive M&A This Year, Bankers in Davos Say

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – An acceleration in U.S. economic growth at the end of last year has fanned optimism about the outlook for global growth among business chiefs and policymakers in Davos.

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U.S. growth spurt fans recovery hopes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission turned down a motion by Intel Corp. that sought to bar a commissioner from participating in the agency’s antitrust lawsuit against the company, the world’s largest chipmaker.

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FTC Rejects Intel’s Request to Bar Commissioner Rosch From Suit

India’s central bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao sought to assure investors that he will restrain inflation, while refraining from raising interest rates to support a rebound in Asia’s third-largest economy.

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Subbarao Seeks to Assure Investors on Prices, Aid India Rebound

The Supreme Court’s decision on campaign finance has jumbled a seemingly simple rule of American politics _ foreigners should play no role in U.S. elections. President Barack Obama and other critics say the court’s decision to let corporations spend their…

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Critics raise specter of foreign campaign spending

Tesla Motors Inc., the maker of electric sports cars that hasn’t posted a profit in six years, filed for an initial public offering of shares to raise as much as $100 million.

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Electric-Car Maker Tesla Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Barney Frank, the powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said on Saturday a reported move by banks to agree on a global wind-down fund was a “major recognition of reality.”

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Policy makers pushed back at bankers who have warned of excessive and uncoordinated attempts to toughen financial regulation as they jostled for control of an industry that required an unprecedented government bailout.

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Davos Dispute Escalates as Regulators, Bankers Meet (Update1)

The Republican National Committee adjourns its winter meeting in Honolulu today after passing a compromise that urges leaders to determine if candidates adhere “wholeheartedly” to the party platform before backing them.

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Republicans Compromise on ‘Purity Test’ for November Candidates

Suspected U.S. missiles hit a compound and a bunker in Pakistan’s volatile tribal region, killing nine militants as part of an unprecedented wave of strikes since a deadly attack against the CIA across the border in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said….

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Officials: US missiles kill 9 Taliban in Pakistan

American Toyota owners are understandably alarmed about ballooning recalls over faulty gas pedals and floor mats. In Japan, the automaker’s home market, where there have been no such recalls, the reaction is _ also understandably _ muted. Some of the same…

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Japan not as worried about US Toyota recalls

China angrily summoned the U.S. ambassador on Saturday and warned that a plan to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan would harm already strained ties. One Chinese expert said the sale would give Beijing a “fair and proper reason” to accelerate weapons…

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China warns US on planned arms sales to Taiwan

World junior champion Adam Rippon of the U.S. surged from seventh to first place with a strong free skate Saturday to win the men’s Four Continents figure skating title. Tatsuki Machida of Japan claimed the silver with a solid performance that lifted him from…

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Rippon of US grabs Four Continents title

Mexico’s economy shrank 6.8 percent in 2009, the worst result in at least 30 years, the Treasury Department said Friday. The decline in full-year gross domestic product outpaced the 6.2 percent fall during Mexico’s currency and debt crisis in 1995. A bright…

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Mexico GDP down 6.8 percent in 2009

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a letter to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch saying it’s considering whether to investigate the Bowl Championship Series of college football for possible violations of antitrust law.

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U.S. May Start Antitrust Probe of College Football Bowl Series