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*Deal now before U.K. Takeover Panel. MOSCOW, Jan 29- Two Russian billionaires have been named by a financial daily as the possible joint buyers of a 38 percent stake in Russia's largest gold mining firm, Polyus Gold International Ltd, in a deal now facing scrutiny by the U.K. Takeover Panel.
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In New York, gallery art sales or auctions are estimated at $8 billion. CNBC's Robert Frank reports on questions over a bidding for a chandelier.
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NEW YORK-- Transocean Ltd. shares rose Monday on news that billionaire investor Carl Icahn boosted his stake in the oil drilling company and said he plans to push for it to declare a dividend of at least $4 a share.
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MOSCOW, Jan 28- Russia's Norilsk Nickel has asked the Kremlin for a tax break worth $500 million a year, a newspaper said on Monday, in a move that drew scepticism from analysts who said the world's top nickel and palladium miner did not need the cash.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 25- Japanese gaming billionaire Kazuo Okada has filed a lawsuit in a Nevada court in an attempt to keep his seat on the board of Wynn Resorts Ltd..
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*Argentina says case could threaten billions in debt. NEW YORK, Jan 25- Investors who refused to join two sovereign debt restructurings by Argentina are urging a U.S. court to force the country to pay them, in a case whose outcome could make it much harder for emerging market countries facing cash crunches to borrow money.
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NEW YORK, Jan 25- Billionaire businessman Henry Kravis and his wife have sued art collector Donald L. Bryant Jr. over three paintings by the renowned artist Jasper Johns that the Kravises say they bought jointly with Bryant with the intention of sharing them, then eventually donating them to New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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The argument centered on nutritional supplements company Herbalife Ltd, in which Ackman has had a well-publicized short position that Icahn has slammed. In a tirade that included expletives, Icahn said he would never invest with Ackman and predicted investors in his Pershing Square hedge fund would lose a lot of money on the Herbalife bet.
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NEW YORK, Jan 25- Investors who refused to participate in two sovereign debt restructurings by Argentina are urging a U.S. court to force the country to pay them, in a case that could have far-reaching implications on the ability of emerging market countries to borrow money.
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*Magnitsky case seen adding to negative view of Russia. DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25- It began with the death of an anti-corruption lawyer in a Moscow jail and grew into a row between Russia and the United States. Now Russia's business elite are worried their interests could be harmed by fallout from the Magnitsky affair.
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*Doug Whitman convicted on Google, Marvell, Polycom trades. NEW YORK, Jan 24- California hedge fund manager Doug Whitman was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison, after he became the first defendant in a broad U.S. crackdown on insider trading to take the stand to convince jurors of his innocence.
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NEW YORK, Jan 24- Billionaire investor George Soros said on Thursday that he favors U.S. monetary easing policy, but warned of a "currency war" because of differences in how countries manage national deficits. "I think the policy, basically, pioneered by Bernanke is actually the right policy," Soros told CNBC in an interview from Davos, Switzerland.
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New Mexico has spent more than $200 million to develop a spaceport in southern New Mexico that British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic plans to use to take tourists into outer space for $200,000- a-ticket.
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LONDON, Jan 24- As Silvio Berlusconi's pre-election media blitz intensifies, so do fears of a costly detour from Italy's road back to economic strength.
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SAN FRANCISCO-- Netflix Inc. is expected to report it ended last year with another quarterly loss as its Internet video subscription service poured more money into an international expansion and licensing fees.
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BANGKOK, Jan 22- For self-made Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, the takeover of Singapore's Fraser and Neave Ltd will add legions of assets to his drinks and real estate empire that already stretches from Southeast Asia to the United States.
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*Overseas Union chooses not to increase S $9.08- per-share offer. *Raising price unattractive after Singapore cools property mkt- Overseas Union.
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Jan 21- In February 2008, Thomas Minder, a Swiss businessman whose family-owned company is best known for its old-fashioned herbal toothpaste, attacked his banker, UBS Chairman Marcel Ospel, as if he were a form of stubborn plaque. At a shareholders' meeting in Basel, he stormed the podium as Ospel addressed the crowd.
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Jan 21- One of the great transformations of our age is the liberation of women. In the developed Western economies, the rise of women has picked up such pace that some have begun to declare, as Hannah Rosin did in her acclaimed 2012 book of the same title, "The End of Men."
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SINGAPORE, Jan 21- Thailand's third-richest man has raised his stake and takeover offer for Fraser and Neave Ltd to fend off a bid by a group led by Indonesian tycoon Stephen Riady as the battle for the Singapore property and drinks group draws towards a close.