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                  as of Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:16:33 GMT

    Rate yourself using debt-to-income ratio (Reuters)

Reuters - (Linda Stern is a freelance writer. Any opinions in the

    Online console gaming primed for take-off (Reuters)

Reuters - Online video game playing is growing up.

    US middle-market advisers feel the global pull (Reuters)

Reuters - When the Riverside Co. private-equity group decided last year
 to sell an auto-parts maker in its portfolio, it hired a Midwest
 investment bank that said it brought something special to the
 assignment: a new friend overseas.

    BNP gains support in bid for Italy's BNL (Reuters)

Reuters - BNP Paribas  won wide support for its bold 9 billion euro
 ($10.9 billion) bid for Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro  on Saturday
 with the target calling the bid "not hostile" and key BNL investors
 welcoming it.

    Two US buyout firms eyeing GUS's Experian: paper (Reuters)

Reuters - Two U.S. private equity companies are considering making a 6
 billion-pound ($10.7 billion) offer for Experian, GUS Plc's  business
 services unit, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

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