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S&P up again

Stocks overcame a morning slide to give the S&P 500 another record close.

Yahoo! pay

With a pay package valued at $36.6 million last year, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer was the company’s second-highest-paid executive. COO Henrique de Castro had a compensation package valued at $39.2 million.

Code case

Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who won reversal of a federal conviction for stealing proprietary software code from the firm, lost a bid yesterday to throw out New York charges based on the same allegations.

Anti-Aereo

CBS could become a cable channel if courts don’t stop the Internet startup Aereo from retransmitting shows without permission, CEO Leslie Moonves said. The comments echo a threat from News Corp., parent of the Fox network as well as The Post.

Home stats

The Commerce Dept. said that the US home ownership rate slipped to 65.2 percent in the first quarter, a 17-year low.