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AOL’s $1 billion deal to sell and license patents to Microsoft is another in a series of “Antiques Roadshow” moments in the technology world. Faded companies have been rummaging through their assets recently, and some of them have found musty old patents that turn out to be worth a great deal.
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Ship owners are anchoring the most commodity carriers since at least 2008 after the biggest slump in rates for more than a decade, cutting capacity just as Brazilian farmers prepare for record soybean exports.

More than 25 percent of the Panamax fleet was anchored last month, the most in data compiled by Bloomberg since 2008. Daily rates for the 750-foot-long vessels will average $10,000 this quarter, 25 percent more than in the first three months and the biggest increase in more than two years, the median of nine analyst estimates shows. Shares of Athens-based Safe Bulkers (SB) Inc., which owns 18 Panamaxes, will rise 35 percent in 12 months, according to the average of seven predictions.
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Considering they work for an aggressive, risk-taking corporation with a history that reads like a Cold War thriller, the top brass at Swiss commodities giant Glencore International PLC can be a surprisingly sensitive bunch. At least, that’s what Oliver Classen discovered. Classen works for an NGO, the Berne Declaration, that handed Glencore a satirical “Public Eye” award in 2008—an attempt to draw attention to what it argued was opaque disclosure surrounding Glencore’s Colombian coal mines. Classen says he was shocked when an “emotional” Ivan Glasenberg, Glencore’s notoriously private CEO, phoned him to complain. “He’s the type of guy who is on a mission,” Classen says. “He feels personally attacked when you criticize his activities.”
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American Economist Jeffrey Sachs is openly campaigning to be the next President of the World Bank and has gained the support of developing countries, including Haiti and Kenya but U.S. President Barack Obama is said to have given his nod to Jim Yong Kim, a physician and President at Dartmouth College.
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The US futures market regulator has approved rules calling for “real-time” clearing of swaps trades over the industry’s objections, as banks fear a rise in trading costs and potential risks.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s rule, adopted by a four-to-one vote, requires that swaps trades be submitted for clearing only minutes from when the trades are executed, rather than hours or days.
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