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SAC Capital Advisors LP lawyer Martin Klotz has asked a coirt judge to sign the settlement that will have the firm shut down its investment advisory unit, along with paying a whopping $1.8 billion to settle the insider trading charges filed against them, Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg said Wal-Mart Stores Inc had sued Visa after dropping from a class-action suit to solely pursue the credit card company over conspiring with banks to increase its fees on retail purchases made with a credit card.

Coroner Peter Bedford was not able to enter a suicide ruling in the death of former Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky in the inquest because of a pathologist's opinion that the Berezovsky might have been strangled.