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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- IAC/InterActiveCorp. Chairman Barry Diller does not need a green light from Liberty Media Corp. to split up IAC, a Delaware court has ruled, The wall street Journal reported late Friday on its Web site. The news sent late-traded shares of IAC up 7.2% to $21.96 in after-hours activity. (Corrects share price.)Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- BlackRock said late Friday the board of trustees of the BlackRock Closed-End Funds recently approved the reorganization of BlackRock Enhanced Equity Yield Fund and BlackRock Enhanced Equity Yield & Premium Fund into BlackRock Enhanced Capital & Income Fund . BlackRock Enhanced Capital & Income Fund will be the surviving fund. The reorganization is expected to be completed in the third quarter. market pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Pall Corp. said late Friday its second-quarter net income rose to $48 million, or 39 cents a share, from $44.3 million, or 36 cents a share, a year ago. Excluding restructuring and other charges, adjusted earnings were 46 cents a share compared with 35 cents a share in the same quarter last year. Revenue in the latest quarter totaled $625.8 million, up from $544.9 million in the year-earlier period, said the life sciences and industrial company. Pall also said it restated its financial statements for the fiscal years 1999 through 2006 and for each of the fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2006, Jan. 31, 2007, and April 30, 2007. market pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

As a transparent and accountable regulator HSE recognises the need for regulators to achieve their regulatory objectives without imposing unnecessary burdens on those they regulate, as envisaged in the Government's ”Regulators' Compliance Code”.  We have published a short statement setting out how our Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS), and other high-level policies meet the obligations set out in [...]

Short track records make it difficult to pick winners, but the fund industry tries its hand.

Sydney and Melbourne residential properties offer steady returns

Macy's strategy of pushing celebrity licensed products may set it apart from other dept. stores, but there is something awfully vapid about the whole thing. How successful are Trump's ties anyway? All that over-priced celebrity-ware makes me wonder...are there any...

These are some stocks that have been tagged by users over at StockTickr:HURN: HURON CONSULTING GROUP INC Outlook: Short Industry: Management Services New low on 24.08 times average volume: 7,422,980 vs. 308,237(tags: short, New Low on Huge Volume)ZILA: ZILA INC Outlook: Short Industry: Medical Equip Wholesale New low on 26.18 times average volume: 3,672,270 vs. 140,295(tags: short, New Low on Huge [...]

U.S. stocks sank yesterday after concerns that a major wall street bank could be short on cash and that profits at technology companies might be weaker than expected.

Currency exchange is the biggest market in the world, with an average daily trading of US$2 billion per day. That's bigger than the NYSE market - and investors are catching on. With large profits possible in a short amount of time, traditional investors are making their way into the currency market.