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• Annaly to buy rest of CreXus for about $872M

  NEW YORK-- Annaly Capital Management Inc. raised its offer to buy the rest of specialty finance group CreXus Investment Corp. and has sealed the deal for about $872.3 million in cash. Annaly, a real estate investment trust, said Thursday it will pay $13 per share for the stock it doesn't already own, up from its November offer of $12.50 per share.

• 'Wild and Woolly' Twinkies Auction Expected: Hostess CEO

  

  The bids for the snack cakes of bankrupt Hostess Brands will be intensely competitive, CEO Greg Rayburn predicted in a "First on CNBC" interview.

• Private Equity Firms Submit Hostess Rescue Plan

  

  Hostess Brands said private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co have set a baseline offer of $410 million to buy the company's snack cake brands including Hostess Twinkies and Dolly Madison.

• Lightning Round 

  

  You say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell.

• Your First Trade for Thursday 

  

  CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.

• Fast Money Final Trade 

  

  The Fast Money traders share their final trades of the day.

• Stock Pops & Drops 

  

  The Fast Money traders take a look at today's biggest market movers.

• Were You a Buyer or Seller? 

  

  Dissecting the day's major business news, including worse than expected GDP data, with the Fast Money traders and Michelle Meyer, Bank of America.

• UPDATE 1-Fiat CEO keen for Chrysler buyout

  MILAN, Jan 30- Fiat SpA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said the Italian automaker would like to see the minority holder of U.S. affiliate Chrysler Group LLC sell out as soon as possible. It's up to them, "he said, referring to a United Auto Workers union retiree healthcare trust called VEBA that owns 41 percent of Chrysler.

• United Bankshares to buy Va. Commerce for $491M

  CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- Expanding its footprint the Washington, D.C. market, United Bankshares Inc. will buy Virginia Commerce Bancorp Inc. in a deal worth $490.6 million, the company said Wednesday.

• Private equity firm to buy BioClinica for $123M

  NEWTOWN, Pa.-- A private equity firm plans to buy BioClinica Inc., which provides clinical trial management services, in a deal valued at about $123 million. BioClinica, based in Newtown, Pa., said Wednesday its board of directors has unanimously approved the deal, in JLL Partners Inc. will pay $7.25 for each BioClinica share.

• Dell founder may control PC maker after buyout-Bloomberg

  NEW YORK, Jan 30- Dell Inc's founder and chief executive may pay as much as $1 billion out of his personal fortune to assume control of the world's No. 3 PC maker in a leveraged buyout, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.

• Kinder Morgan Buys Copano Energy Pipeline for $3.22 Billion

  

  Kinder Morgan Energy Partners will buy natural gas pipeline operator Copano Energy for $3.22 billion to tap into growing demand for infrastructure in Texas and Oklahoma.

• After Abu Dhabi property merger, more streamlining seen

  *Abu Dhabi cracking the whip with state-linked firms. DUBAI, Jan 30- The state-backed union of Abu Dhabi's two biggest property developers is likely just the first step in a wider consolidation that will see projects and state entities merged in a bid to stabilise the real estate market.

• UPDATE 1-Pioneer Natural to sell shale stake to Sinochem for $1.7 bln

  *To sell 40 percent of interest in Texas field. Jan 30- Oil and gas producer Pioneer Natural Resources Co said it would sell a 40 percent interest in the Wolfcamp shale field in Texas to China's state-run Sinochem Group Co Ltd for $1.7 billion.

• UPDATE 2-Kinder Morgan to buy pipeline firm Copano for $3.22 bln

  *Kinder to expand in south and north Texas, and Oklahoma. Jan 30- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP will buy natural gas pipeline operator Copano Energy LLC for $3.22 billion to tap into growing demand for infrastructure to transport vast supplies from the shale fields of Texas and Oklahoma.

• EXCLUSIVE-UPDATE 1-Thermo Fisher weighs Life Tech takeover-sources

  *A Life Tech buy would mark Thermo Fisher's largest deal. NEW YORK, Jan 29- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc is considering making an offer for Life Technologies Corp, the biomedical laboratory equipment maker that is exploring a potential sale, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

• Lightning Round 

  

  You say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell.

• Your First Trade for Wednesday 

  

  CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.

• ConAgra completes acquisition of Ralcorp

  OMAHA, Neb.-- ConAgra Foods Inc. said Tuesday that it has completed its roughly $5 billion acquisition of private-label food maker Ralcorp Holdings Inc.. ConAgra, which sells brands like Chef Boyardee and Marie Callender's, paid $90 per share cash for Ralcorp's common stock. Kevin Hunt, former CEO of Ralcorp, will be a consultant to ConAgra Foods for the next year.