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• Biodel prices offering of 4.5M shares

  DANBURY, Conn.-- Biotechnology company Biodel Inc. on Wednesday priced a public offering of about 4.5 million shares of stock at $4.35 per share. Biodel, which develops treatments for diabetes, is also granting underwriters a 30- day option to buy up to 672,414 more shares to cover overallotments. Shares fell 46 cents, or 9.7 percent, to $4.30 in afternoon trading.

• Earnings Preview: Red Lobster, Olive Garden update

  NEW YORK-- Darden Restaurants Inc. reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results Friday, which should give another look at the company's efforts to fix its struggling Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains. At Olive Garden, the company introduced lighter options and a livelier, modern ad campaign, rather the Old World atmosphere it evoked in the past.

• La-Z-Boy shares fall on profit decline

  La-Z-Boy Inc.' s shares fell Wednesday after the furniture maker reported a drop in its fiscal fourth-quarter profit. THE SPARK: La-Z-Boy reported after the market closed that its net income fell to $18.3 million, or 33 cents per share, for the quarter.

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Wall Street

• Taper Tipoff? Bernanke Hints Easing End Is Nearing

  

  Chairman Ben Bernanke provided hints Wednesday that the days of extreme easing are coming to a close.

• Midday Movers: BLUE, MW & More

  

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

• Who Will Be the Next Fed Chairman?

  

  Here are the top contenders to lead the Fed once Ben Bernanke steps aside.

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Stocks

• Bulls Want FedEx to Deliver

  

  FedEx reports earnings today before the bell this morning, and traders are looking for the stock to deliver.

• Look at Emerging Equities: Pro 

  

  Morgan Harting of Alliance Bernstein, explains that the gap between emerging and developed equities is "excessive".

• Cramer: It's About to Get Ugly

  

  Cramer expects the bears to make a run at the market, guns blazing.

Investing

• Investing to Retire (Mostly) Tax-Free

  

  "Tax-free retirement" has a nice ring, but creating a tax-free income stream is difficult—and maybe self-defeating.

• 'QE Infinity' Now 6 Months: Economists

  

  The Fed will probably put off tapering, but needs to start scaling back next year, two top economists tell CNBC.

• G-8 Welcomed Japan's Economic Policies

  

  G-8 leaders supports "Abenomics" economic policies and heard no concerns about Japan's super easy monetary easing.

Financials

• Cyprus President Calls for Bailout Overhaul

  

  Cyprus' president has asked euro zone leaders for a complete revamp of his country's 10 billion euro ($13.4 billion) bailout, the Financial Times reports.

• Hong Kong Investigates HSBC

  

  Hong Kong's central bank extends its investigation into possible benchmark rate manipulation to include HSBC.

• Ex-UBS Trader Charged in Libor Probe

  

  Britain's fraud prosecutor charged former UBS trader Tom Hayes with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.

Economy

• Santelli to Fed: 'What Are You Afraid Of?'

  

  CNBC's Rick Santelli went on a Fed rant Wednesday morning. Watch the clip and check out the firestorm that followed on Twitter.

• Obamacare Prompting Small Business Cuts

  

  Small business owners are already curtailing hiring because of concerns over the cost of Obamacare, a recent survey found.

• Taper Tipoff? Bernanke Hints Easing End Is Nearing

  

  Chairman Ben Bernanke provided hints Wednesday that the days of extreme easing are coming to a close.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

• Why is Wall Street Bullish on 2013?

  

  Even the bears are bullish for 2013.

• Do Special Dividends Boost Stock Price?

  

  Does offering extra cash to shareholders improve a company's stock performance? Not necessarily.

• Staying Bullish on the Markets 

  

  The WSJ reported details from the fiscal cliff talks at the White House, with CNBC's Eamon Javers and the Fast Money traders; and Savita Subramanian, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, explains why she is bullish on the markets.

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Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 4:37 PM ET

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and how the company makes money.

Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 6:31 AM ET

John Silvia, Wells Fargo Securities, and Barbara Marcin, Gabelli Dividend Income Fund, discuss whether investors should reconsider allocating their portfolios as the Fed wraps up its two-day policy meeting.

Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 8:53 AM ET

Ken Langone, Invemed Associates chairman and president, called Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "lame duck."

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