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• UPDATE 1-Tempur-Pedic gets FTC clearance for Sealy acquisition Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 2:10 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, March 8- Tempur-Pedic International Inc, the Kentucky company which pioneered pricey space-age mattresses, has won approval from antitrust regulators to buy century-old Sealy Corp, the company said on Friday. Tempur-Pedic put the total value of the transaction- stock purchases and acquired debt- at $1.3 billion.

• Midday Movers: HRB, HIG & More Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 1:05 PM ET

  

  Take a look at some of Friday's midday movers:

• Will US antitrust cops recoil from king-sized mattress merger? Monday, 4 Mar 2013 | 6:26 PM ET

  *Kentucky upstart goes after former market leader. WASHINGTON, March 4- A planned merger of two large U.S. mattress companies will force U.S. antitrust regulators to decide how much concentration they are prepared to allow in this once diffuse market.

• UPDATE 5-Obama is to name Edith Ramirez FTC chief Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 6:18 PM ET

  *FTC probing Office Depot/ OfficeMax deal, Tesoro refinery buy. WASHINGTON, Feb 28- President Barack Obama is to name Edith Ramirez, once his colleague at the Harvard Law Review, as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC said on Thursday.

• Sex or Sleep? You Gotta Ask the Question Friday, 25 Jan 2013 | 5:17 PM ET

  

  Believe it or not, "Some bedding veterans don't believe that sex should be discussed on the sales floor."