Investing

Media Digest (2/13/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg

Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will buy the portion of NBCUniversal that it does not already own from General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) for $16.7 billion. (Reuters)

The S&P 500 almost reaches a record, but some analysts believe that stocks are still inexpensive. (Reuters)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) says its search deal with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has fallen short of expectations. (Reuters)

Dutch financial firm ING Groep N.V. (NYSE: ING) will cut another 2,400 jobs. (WSJ)

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW), a large Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) shareholder, objects to the firm’s LBO deal. (WSJ)

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) will launch a Web TV product. (WSJ)

Burger King Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: BKW) will offer more coffee drinks to compete with McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD). (WSJ)

If the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, it faces a cut in trade with Europe. (NYT)

President Obama says the United States will start trade talks with the 27-country European alliance. (Bloomberg)

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