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In a brand loyalty toothpaste showdown between Colgate and Crest, who do you think would win?

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Traders are ready for the chance the Fed will signal it’s a step closer to normalizing a low rate policy, but markets could still be volatile.

Microsoft’s impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game, is more aimed at pulling users onto the software company’s obscure mobile platform than its better known PC system or Xbox game console. The software company’s Windows Phone system has only 2.5 percent of the world’s smartphone market, and its Surface tablet barely more, according to tech research firm IDC. Enter Minecraft, which is the top paid app both on Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iOS and Google Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Android systems.

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UBS will coordinate $325 million of commitments and Standard General will arrange $260 million in financing, replacing a $585 million loan and credit facility from GE Capital, a unit of General Electric Co (GE.N), the financial daily reported. The new loans, a last-ditch effort that could still fall through, would loosen some restrictions in the terms of GE Capital’s loan, giving RadioShack quicker access to cash through the holiday season, WSJ reported.

The biggest IPO in Wall Street’s history could hit the tape Friday morning. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is set to price Thursday after the close and begin trading Friday morning – it’s arguably the biggest event on next week’s schedule.

Over two months, hackers gained entry to dozens of the bank’s servers, said three people with knowledge of the bank’s investigation into the episode.

Underperformance in this stock may be nearing an end.