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Finance

Pre-Marketing: S&P for sale?

* Big breakup? Activists put pressure on S&P owner McGraw Hill

* Daniel Indiviglio: The case for making wages public

* Andrew Ross Sorkin: SEC’s revolving door is hurdle to crisis cleanup

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls earlyEuropean shares retreat and the Nikkei slumps.

* Real-life avatar: A boy and his bot

* Jerry Neumann: Pace of VC investing by sub-sector

* What not to do in crisis: Lessons from the Airbnb fiasco

* Simon Johnson: Low bank capital is the next financial crisis

* Big Ben, can you lend a hand? How accommodating is the Fed?

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* Robin Wauters: European VC investments fall 28% in first half of 2011