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Ukraine’s president shook hands with Russia’s Vladimir Putin as they began their summit meeting.

Warren Buffett is helping to finance Burger King’s planned takeover of Tim Hortons, according to people familiar with the matter, backing a buyer that would move its headquarters to Canada where corporate taxes are lower.

Two top Republican lawmakers profited from a corporate tax-avoidance maneuver that the U.S. Treasury Department is seeking to curb. House Speaker John Boehner and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp have resisted calls for a crackdown on companies adopting overseas addresses to pay lower taxes, both have made money off one of the deals. The two lawmakers reported the sale of stock in Covidien Plc within nine days of Medtronic Inc. saying it was planning a takeover, an announcement that sent Dublin-based Covidien’s shares near a 52-week high.

Microsoft’s Windows web browser and media player are being targeted in a Chinese antitrust probe, raising the prospect of China revisiting the software bundling issue at the heart of past antitrust complaints against the firm in the West.

The first research into the effects of oil and gas development on babies born near wells has found potential health risks. While the findings are still preliminary, any documented hazards threaten to cast a shadow over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — the process of blasting chemicals, sand and water deep underground to extract fuel from rock that’s helped push the U.S.

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Financial journalists and social media-savvy economists will write “table setters” about the monthly jobs release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is due out next Friday morning. By next Thursday night, things will heat up on Twitter, as the same crowd begins offering their over-under predictions for the number of jobs the U.S.

America’s shale boom has raised hopes of a revival in U.S. Much of the problem stems from steel, trucks, car parts, industrial machinery and furniture.