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Deals of the Hour / September 16, 2010, 12:39 am

FDA Approves New Gout Relief Drug

East Brunswick, NJ, United States (AHN) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug, Krystexxa (pegloticase ... Savient expects Krystexxa to be available by prescription in the U.S. later this year. ... (Source: All Headline News 2010-09-15T17:32:41Z)

Savient Investors Expect a Sale

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of Krystexxa Tuesday ... Savient tried and failed to get Krystexxa approved more than a year ago due to manufacturing problems that caused FDA to prolong the ... (Source: Inside Fidelity 2010-09-15T11:34:47Z)

Miladin Kovacevic plea deal expected

... Tuesday in the trial of a former Serb ... Miladin Kovacevic is accused of inflicting severe bodily harm with possible deadly consequences on Bryan Steinhauer of Brooklyn, New York, after a barroom brawl in May ... (Source: ESPN.com 2010-09-14T11:43:07Z)

Karl To Hit Mexico; Igor, Julia Both Category 4 Hurricanes

WPBF.com Newly-formed Tropical Storm Karl will hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Wednesday as Category 4 Hurricanes Igor and Julia churn in the Atlantic. Tropical storm warnings were in effect from Chetumal to Cabo ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-09-15T13:22:09Z)

Gulf oil well to be sealed by Sunday

KENNER, La. (AP) — The blown-out well at the bottom of Gulf of Mexico could be pronounced dead in a matter of days. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane ... (Source: Pensacola News Journal 2010-09-15T22:11:52Z)

State Dept. Disappointed With Kovacevic Plea Deal

... Serb college basketball player who beat an American student into a coma. A State Department spokesman says the agreement for Miladin Kovacevic ... student Bryan Steinhauer in the chest during a barroom brawl in ... (Source: NewsChannel 36 2010-09-16T05:57:09Z)

French Senate votes to ban body veil

Cecilia Romero stepped down as head of the National Institute of Migration, a post she had held since the beginning of President Felipe Calderon's term in December 2006, the Interior Department said in a statement. (Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 2010-09-15T06:55:36Z)

Bullish Buffett Still Bearish on Moody's

Berkshire Hathaway insider sales transactions reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday afternoon, show Warren Buffett selling more than 1.3 million shares of Moody's. Buffett's sale of Berkshire ... (Source: Street.Com 2010-09-14T23:46:06Z)

Intel Capital Increases Software Investment Pace With 4 Deals

and energy software and services provider Nexant Inc., and a follow-up investment in cloud-computing company Joyent Inc. Intel Capital has expanded the areas of software in which it invests on the heels of several ... (Source: Smart Money 2010-09-14T23:31:47Z)

Bullish Warren Buffett Still Bearish on Moody's

Berkshire Hathaway insider sales transactions reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday afternoon show Warren Buffett selling more than 1.3 million shares of Moody's. Buffett's sale of Berkshire ... (Source: Street.Com 2010-09-13T23:54:27Z)

Gulf disaster: BP oil well days away from official death

AP) — The blown-out well at the bottom of Gulf of Mexico could ... Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued an order requiring oil and gas companies to plug nearly 3,500 non-producing wells and dismantle about 650 ... (Source: USA Today 2010-09-16T07:15:53Z)

Sacramento celebrates Mexico's bicentennial

SACRAMENTO, CA - About 3,000 revelers descended on the west steps of the State Capitol to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the call for Mexico's independence from Spain Wednesday night. The celebration ... (Source: KXTV News10Net 2010-09-16T06:25:47Z)

Old oil wells in Gulf are ordered plugged

ordering oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico to plug or ... Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued an order requiring oil and gas companies to plug nearly 3,500 non-producing wells and dismantle about 650 ... (Source: AZCentral.com 2010-09-16T07:01:34Z)

Intel Capital announces USD30m investment in four US technology companies

... global investing arm of Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC | PowerRating ), on Tuesday announced four investments totalling over USD30m. These investments are in Adaptive Computing, Ciranova, Joyent and Nexant. (Source: TradingMarkets.com 2010-09-15T09:33:05Z)

U.S. requires idle wells in Gulf of Mexico to be plugged

... Gulf of Mexico to plug in nearly 3,500 non-producing wells and dismantle about 650 ... developing leases and today's notice reiterates that mandate," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement. (Source: USA Today 2010-09-15T21:50:23Z)

Intel Capital Invests $30 Million in Four U.S. Technology Companies

president of Intel Capital and Intel executive vice president. "The investments in Adaptive Computing, Ciranova, Joyent and Nexant are the latest examples of Intel Capital's commitment to advance the next ... (Source: PR Inside 2010-09-15T19:05:45Z)

Kovacevic Plea Bargain

A deputy Serbian prosecutor and the lawyer for 23-year old Miladin Kovacevic say they ... accused of repeatedly kicking Bryan Steinhauer of Brooklyn in the chest and head, after a barroom brawl in May 2008 at the ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-09-15T20:45:58Z)

Outgoing BP Exec denies claims

The outgoing chief executive of British Petroleum (BP), Tony Hayward is denying that cost-saving was the reason his company placed only one blowout preventer on the well that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April ... (Source: Go Jamaica 2010-09-15T23:09:08Z)

Tropical Storm Karl hits Mexico; Julia, Igor at Category 4

A strong Tropical Storm Karl made landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, hitting a sparsely populated stretch of Caribbean coast, while two Category 4 hurricanes roared further out in the Atlantic. Karl ... (Source: HamptonRoads.com 2010-09-16T01:46:37Z)

NOAA head: Scientists' work on Gulf spill far from done

... research cruise found oil on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... Thad Allen, speaking with Lubchenco at a news conference in Kenner, La., (Source: McClatchy 2010-09-15T23:37:46Z)

Mexican immigration official quits after massacre

... top immigration official ... Cecilia Romero stepped down as head of the National Institute of Migration, a post she had held since the beginning of President Felipe Calderon's term in December 2006, the Interior ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-09-15T16:13:57Z)

Buffett Continue to Liquidate Moody's (MCO) Stake

Filings after the close showed that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ... steadily selling shares of Moody's since July 2009. After the recent sales he still has approximately 29 million shares. Before the sales he ... (Source: StreetInsider.com 2010-09-15T14:26:34Z)

Hundreds celebrated Mexico's independence in Downtown Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Hundreds of people celebrated Mexico's independence in style Wednesday night in Downtown Fresno. Thursday marks the bicentennial of Mexico freeing itself from Spain's rule. The Fulton Mall ... (Source: KABC 2010-09-16T07:23:03Z)

Krystexxa Approved for Gout

the FDA said in a news ... The agency said Krystexxa hadn't been evaluated in people with congestive heart failure, and should be dispensed to such users with caution. The drug is produced by Savient Pharmaceuticals, (Source: AZCentral.com 2010-09-15T16:06:47Z)

Mexico celebrates 200 years of independence with $40M fiesta

... Calderón was later set to deliver the traditional "grito" — three shouts of "Viva Mexico" — to celebrate the 1810 uprising that resulted a decade later in independence from Spain. "This one is special ... (Source: Modesto Bee 2010-09-16T07:01:34Z)

Mexico's top immigration official resigns in wake of massacre of 72 migrants

... top immigration official ... Cecilia Romero stepped down as head of the National Institute of Migration, a post she had held since the beginning of President Felipe Calderon's term in December 2006, the Interior ... (Source: Washington Examiner 2010-09-15T17:32:41Z)

BP's outgoing CEO Tony Hayward to testify to UK lawmakers on Gulf of Mexico oil spill

LONDON – LONDON (AP) — Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward defended his company's safety record Wednesday in the face of questions from British lawmakers about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, months after he ... (Source: FOX News 2010-09-15T14:48:03Z)

Karl hits; Igor and Julia roar

the Atlantic had two Category 4 storms briefly Wednesday when Hurricane Julia rapidly intensified to match powerful Hurricane Igor. It was just the second time in recorded history that the Atlantic had simultaneous ... (Source: Herald Tribune 2010-09-16T05:42:50Z)

End in sight for final capping of BP oil well

... Commander Thad Allen told reporters gathered at a seafood distributor in Kenner, La ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said monitoring continues of oil that remains in the ... (Source: Boston Herald 2010-09-16T04:16:56Z)

Don't blame BP alone for spill, Hayward tells U.K. lawmakers

Outgoing CEO Tony Hayward said Wednesday that he understood anger directed at BP in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill but insisted his company was not solely to blame for the disaster. (Return to story (Source: Houston Chronicle 2010-09-16T05:35:41Z)

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