In 1996, a notable study offers solid data showing anabolic steroids enhanced athletic performance.

NPR: Baseball Considers Human Growth Hormone Tests

In notable economic news this week, Labor Department data showed that US employers added 96, 000 jobs in August, missing initial estimates of 125, 000.

FORBES: Weekly Market Wrap

Other recently acquired companies include Buddy Media, AsterData, Data Domain, MySQL, and Danger, and notable portfolio companies include Twitter, Dropbox and LivingSocial.

FORBES: Twitter, Zynga Investor Institutional Venture Partners Raises $1 Billion Fund

While the early data establish optimism, retail data through Cyber Monday could point towards a more notable revenue trend for electronics retailers.

FORBES: Best Buy Gets A Big Boost From Blowout Cyber Monday, Stock Still Overvalued

Each week we monitor the week-over-week change in shares outstanding data, to keep a lookout for those ETFs experiencing notable inflows (many new units created) or outflows (many old units destroyed).

FORBES: PCY: Large Outflows Detected at ETF

For the past few weeks I have seen a notable increase in the number of students asking how they might investigate careers involving polling or data analysis.

FORBES: Nate Silver's Political Calculus Has Made Math Cool

Among the companies rolling over bond maturities were TXU , SandRidge Energy , and Steel Dynamics , while notable bond-for-loan takeouts were launched by Caesars Entertainment , Community Health , First Data , and Univision Communications .

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