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Menswear Creeps Up on Fashion Week's Center Stage

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Menswear, the perennial poor relation of women's high fashion, is staking a larger claim on the lucrative fashion stage, as retailers tap a growing men's clothing market and runways in New York reflect American men's rising interest in high fashion.

Michael Bay Signed on for Transformers 4: Movie Release Date Set for Next Summer

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Movie director Michael Bay, known for the heavy incorporation of explosions and special effects in his films, has signed on to direct the his fourth Transformers film, Paramount studios announced Feb. 14. According to the Hollywood studio, the film, which currently has no set title, cast, plot or writer, will be released on June 29, 2014.
Designer Michael Kors celebrates after ringing the opening bell with guests of Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. at the New York Stock Exchange

Michael Kors Posts Higher Profit; Stock Jumps

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. reported higher quarterly results, helped by strong demand for its namesake luxury brand, sending shares of the designer apparel and accessory company up 23 percent.
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Nicki Minaj performs ''Roman Holiday'' at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California

Houston, Adele, Minaj bring bumper audience to Grammys

A bumper 40 million U.S. viewers watched Sunday's Grammy Awards, drawn in by the death of Whitney Houston and the performance comeback of Adele, and kept watching by a controversial religious stage act by rapper Nicki Minaj.
The sign marking the MF Global Holdings Ltd. offices at 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan is seen in New York

Biggest Winner of MF Global Accounts Expands More

Independent Chicago broker R.J. O'Brien, which got more former accounts from bankrupt rival MF Global than any other merchant, built on that success in December, while other brokers lost some of that extra business, data showed on Monday.
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One Area Where Apple Lags: Its Low Returns on Cash

Apple Inc once again rewarded shareholders richly as its shares surged to new highs above $500 on Monday. There is, though, one part of the iPhone and iPad company's business that is not exactly humming: Its management of a pile of money now probably exceeding $100 billion.
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Jeremy Lin 'Authentic' Yearbook On Sale on eBay

It is hard to find a Jeremy Lin jersey or t-shit, but it appears former classmates of Lin's have posted yearbooks on eBay from when the rising NBA star was just a little tike in the in the 7th grade.
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Sony to set plans for Whitney Houston catalog

Sony Music executives will meet this week in New York to determine a strategy for marketing the nine albums, soundtracks and compilations that feature Whitney Houston, the pop singer who died on Saturday at age 48, according to two people familiar with the plans.
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Stocks Rebound on Greek Austerity Vote: Daily Markets Wrap

U.S. stocks bounced back Monday from Friday's biggest loss of the year as Greece's parliament passed the deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure international rescue funds. The strict financial reform includes a 22 percent cut to minimum wage and 150,000 public-sector job cuts. Rioters protesting the measures set fire to buildings in downtown Athens.
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Methotrexate: Supply of Childhood Leukemia Drug Running Out

The medication used to treat childhood leukemia is experiencing a nationwide shortage. Hospitals across the country could run out of supplies within the next two weeks, leaving thousands of children at a greater risk of dying from the disease.
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New York City Poverty-Fighting Efforts Win Praise

New York's poverty-fighting efforts have been acknowledged by The Harvard Kennedy School. It has awarded a city office that Mayor Michael Bloomberg created six years ago for its work in helping poor people graduate, giving career advice and job training, and counseling them throughout.

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