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In the past several weeks, not a day has passed without a new scandal surfacing revealing Clinton’s lack of judgment whether it involves her abuse of email protocol, or some previously undisclosed financial relation between either Hillary Clinton or the Clinton foundation and an outside donor. The most egregious revelation took place a few days ago when it emerged that the Democratic presidential candidate had breached her agreement with the White House to name all foundation donors during her tenure as secretary of state.

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A deal would give Monsanto, which dominates the market for seeds and genetically-modified crops, access to lucrative crop protection chemicals and create an industry behemoth with combined sales of more than $31 billion. Syngenta rebuffed the cash-and-shares offer, saying it undervalued its prospects and did not fully take into account regulatory risks. Monsanto, which earlier confirmed it had made an offer, declined to comment on whether it would improve the bid. A spokesman for Syngenta declined to comment.

General Electric Co has won a five-year contract valued at up to $2 billion to supply helicopter engines to the government of Taiwan and support a number of U.S. military services, the Defense Department …

The talks, which began when Visa approached Visa Europe, are at an early stage and could fall apart if the two sides cannot agree on a price, Bloomberg said. Visa’s shares were up 4 percent at $69.29 on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. Visa said last year it might have to pay more than $10 billion to buy its London-based European licensee, Visa Europe, if the owners exercised their option to sell it.

The Chicago-based airline estimated it will pay on average $2.17 to $2.22 per gallon of fuel for the period, including the impact of cash-settled hedge losses. This revises its guidance from last month that estimated United would pay between $2.10 and $2.15 per gallon for the quarter. The price of benchmark U.S. crude oil is up almost 3 percent since United gave its initial guidance on April 23. Still, U.S.-based airlines are poised to save hundreds of millions of dollars more on fuel over last year since the U.S. benchmark is down more than 40 percent since June.

American Apparel attributed the suspension to Charney’s alleged misuse of company funds and failure to stop a subordinate from posting false blog entries about former employees. In the defamation case, Charney said that Standard General, through its alleged control of American Apparel’s board, paid outside law firm Jones Day millions of dollars to “manufacture” reasons to show he was not fit to be chief executive in a “sham” probe into his conduct that would justify his removal. “The facts speak for themselves, and we are confident that Mr.

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Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,

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