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Chicago’s Odd Couple: Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a Billionaire Republican Investor

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON

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Kenneth Griffin, chief executive of the $26 billion investment firm Citadel, has described himself as a “Reagan Republican.”

Mr. Emanuel’s challenger, Jesús Garcia, is raising questions about the Democratic Chicago mayor’s top supporter, Kenneth Griffin, a Reagan-Republican billionaire.

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The investor Zhang Lei outside the Airbnb house he and his team rented during a recent fact-finding trip to San Francisco.

The Chinese Billionaire Zhang Lei Spins Research Into Investment Gold

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON

Zhang Lei got his break as an intern for Yale’s endowment, which he impressed so much with his detailed reports that it gave him $20 million to invest.

Alibek Turkayev, a former luxury car exporter, battled federal prosecutors for nearly two years before they agreed to drop a civil forfeiture lawsuit.

Prosecutors Ease Crackdown on Buyers of China-Bound Luxury Cars

By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

Federal authorities in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Ohio have settled these export disputes by returning all of the seized cars.

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Swiss Votes on Pay Bode Ill for Star Bankers

By DOMINIC ELLIOTT

Under Switzerland’s new “say on pay” rules, shareholders will vote on executive compensation, rebalancing power in their hands.

Modest Gain for the Market After Two Days of Losses

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Encouraging data on weekly unemployment benefit applications and factory orders helped lift stock indexes.

Lux Capital Raises $350 Million Fund to Back Science Start-Ups

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

The new fund, which was nearly doubly oversubscribed, will bring the firm’s assets under management to $700 million.

Sergey Aleynikov is accused of stealing secret source code from Goldman Sachs’s computers in New York.

New Stumble in Trial of Former Goldman Programmer

By BEN PROTESS

The long-running case against Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs programmer, is set to begin on Monday after a judge rebuffed a request from the prosecution for a long delay.

Procter & Gamble, a former owner of the nearly 900 square miles of forested land, used to harvest its trees to make diapers.

560,000-Acre Swath of Florida Land Going on the Market

By DAVID GELLES

The largest contiguous parcel of undeveloped private land east of the Mississippi River, owned by Foley Lumber and Land, is expected to bring in $1 billion or more.

S.E.C. Fires Warning Shot About Confidentiality Agreements

By BEN PROTESS

The engineering company KBR agreed to pay the agency $130,000 for forcing employees to sign documents that could stifle possible whistle-blowers.

C.F.T.C. Accuses Kraft and Mondelez of Manipulating Wheat Prices

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

The companies’ former corporate parent sought to push down the price of the grain and reaped $5.4 million in illicit profits, the regulator said.

Yukos Investors Settle With Rosneft, Russia’s State Oil Company

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

Rosneft absorbed most of Yukos’s valuable assets after the company’s founder, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, was arrested in 2003.

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A Three-Pronged Front to Limit Shareholder Litigation

By STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON

Three proposed amendments to corporate law in Delaware have the potential to transform the landscape of shareholder litigation in the United States.

Charter’s offices in St. Louis. Under the deal Charter would control 10 million video subscribers.

Charter Communications’ Bid for Cable Rival Bright House Networks Among Last Merger Wave

By EMILY STEEL and DAVID GELLES

Charter’s $10.4 billion bid for Bright House is the latest big merger announced as corporations in sectors including technology, media and health care seek to combine.

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Where Wall Street and Silicon Valley Intersect

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have done their best to resist or reduce Wall Street’s entreaties, but it appears that a new relationship has begun to develop, leading to new fund-raising methods and innovations.

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Law Schools and Industry Show Signs of Life, Despite Forecasts of Doom

By STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON

Changes in the job market have led to declining enrollment at law schools, but several new studies show reasons to be optimistic about a career in law.

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Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, is considering legislation on waivers of automatic bars for companies subject to enforcement actions.

Lawmakers Focus on How S.E.C. Does Its Job

By PETER J. HENNING

Recently discussed legislation deals with insider trading, waivers from automatic bars and the revolving door between the S.E.C. and private industry.