Stock pop
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters advanced after filing a trademark application for a soda machine that could compete with those made by SodaStream. Green Mountain closed at $73.19, up 6.3 percent.
Jailbird, Esq.
Joseph Collins, Refco’s ex-outside lawyer, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for helping CEO Phillip Bennett and other execs defraud investors of $2.4 billion.
That’s a wrap
Lucasfilm and Pixar have settled a lawsuit that claims they and other giant companies conspired to keep wages down by agreeing not to poach each other’s workers. Terms weren’t disclosed.
Sorry, Mike
Dell Inc. investor T. Rowe Price Group said it won’t support the proposed buyout of the personal-computer maker by founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management.
1st for 3rd
Third Point Reinsurance, which counts hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb as a founding shareholder, filed for a $250 million initial public offering.