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Global buyout firms including Permira and KKR KKR.UL are set to bid for a core Citigroup asset next week in a deal worth more than $1 billion, grabbing a rare opportunity for them to chase big investments in Japan.

A $4.6 million bid submitted through online auctioneer eBay Inc for the crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place fell through, an attorney for the seller said on Tuesday.

Chinese supermarket chain Times Ltd's majority shareholder has invited bidders to make offers for the retailer, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.

Short sales now account for the majority of some real estate agents' transactions. To ensure they have plenty of time to list and show properties, many of these agents are working with short-sale negotiators, who spend much of their time on the phone negotiating with lenders on behalf of sellers.

Italian fashion house Prada is not in talks over the sale of a minority stake, a spokesman for the company said on Monday.

News Corp's Dow Jones & Co Inc is only in the early stages of exploring a sale of its stock market index business and a sales prospectus has not gone out yet, a source familiar with the matter said.

Dow Jones & Co Inc has been talking to potential buyers about the sale of its stock market index business, including the Dow Jones industrial average , the company's Wall Street Journal reported on its website.

Dow Jones & Co Inc has been talking to potential buyers about the sale of its stock-market indexing business, which includes the Dow Jones Industrial Average , The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes notched their fastest pace in nearly two years in July, an industry survey showed on Friday, the strongest sign yet that housing was pulling out of a three-year slump.

Citigroup Inc shares rose as much as 6 percent to their highest in more than three months on growing confidence that the embattled bank would become more profitable as it unloaded troubled assets.

Switzerland sold its stake in UBS for 5.5 billion Swiss francs ($5.1 billion) on Thursday, making a solid profit from last year's rescue of its largest bank.

Switzerland sold its stake in its largest bank, UBS, for 5.5 billion Swiss francs ($5.1 billion), a source said on Thursday, making a profit from last year's rescue deal.

The Swiss government's sale of a 9 percent stake in UBS drew lively bids, traders said on Thursday, with a price range seen above the stock's closing price in the previous session.

General Motors GM.UL board of directors will discuss on Friday the sale of its European business Opel, for which both Magna (MGa.TO) and RHJ (RHJI.BR) are in the hunt, several sources close to the deal said.

A rich asking price could once again sink AIG's plan to sell its Taiwan insurance unit after an attempt at a sale earlier this year met a similar fate.

Apple's iPhone has passed the entry-net test, signaling that it's a step closer to the huge Chinese market, Sina Tech said on Monday.

BHP Billiton has hired Bank of America-Merrill Lynch to advise it on a sale of its Ravensthorpe nickel operation in an auction which could fetch $1 billion, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

General Motors' top negotiator for the sale of its European business took issue on Friday with assertions that Opel suitor Magna had struck a deal in principle on a contract for the deal.

Private equity firm Blackstone Group plans to sell bonds in the private placement market through a unit called Blackstone Holdings Finance, the firm said on Wednesday.

Volkswagen (VW) and Porsche have broadly agreed on details for a deal to combine two of Europe's most storied automakers, two VW supervisory board members told Reuters on Wednesday.

Volkswagen (VW) (VOWG.DE) and Porsche (PSHG_p.DE) have broadly agreed on details for a deal to combine two of Europe's most storied automakers, two VW supervisory board members told Reuters on Wednesday.