• The Singapore Stock Exchange agreed to purchase its Australia-based peer, ASX, for $8.3 billion
• Carlyle announced plans to buy CommScope (NYSE:CTV) for $31.50 per share
• Lorillard (NYSE:LO) reported third quarter earnings of $1.81 a share, $0.17 higher than estimated, on revenues up 12.6% to $1.1 billion topping Street estimates of $1.0 billion
• RadioShack (NYSE:RSH) posted estimate-topping earnings of $0.37 up from estimates of $.0.35 on inline revenues of $1.05 billion
• Office Depot (NYSE:ODP) reported earnings of $0.18, up from estimates of a $0.02 loss, on inline revenues of $2.9 billion
• Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) admitted to foreclosure mistakes, even as it downplayed the import of the errors
• FBR downgrades Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) from “outperform” to “market perform,” taking the target price from $32 to $27
• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) added Citigroup (NYSE:C) to its Conviction Buy List, with a $5.50 price target
• FBR downgraded Home Depot (NYSE:HD) from “outperform” to “market perform,” with a price target of $32
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