Yahoo News- Investors can’t seem to catch a break — Wall Street again starts a week with oil prices at their highest levels yet, and banks poised to reveal that they remain on shaky footing.
None of the troubles that have rocked the market over the past year have let up yet: not the housing […]

Bloomberg- Carl Icahn has hit the roughest patch of his hedge-fund career.
His $7.9 billion in hedge funds fell 7 percent between October and April, the biggest peak-to-trough loss since the funds opened in November 2004, according to investors. That compares with an average annual return on his investments of 53 percent from 1996 to mid-2004. […]

Reuters- Officially, a potential $47.5 billion deal for Microsoft Corp to buy Yahoo Inc is over, at least for now.
But longer term, hedge fund managers and analysts said the Yahoo board now faces more pressure than ever to deliver shareholder value in the wake of the collapsed deal and could be forced to reopen merger […]