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• Comcast reportedly is speaking with private equity firms about participating in an improved offer for the entertainment 21st Century Fox, whose deal with Disney yesterday received anti-trust approval. http://axios.link/2YFn
• Athene (NYSE: ATH), a life insurer backed by Apollo Global Management, is in talks to buy all or part of General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) long-term care insurance business, per the FT. http://axios.link/f1FC
• B-Stock, a Belmont, Calif.-based B2B marketplace for returned or excess merchandise, raised $65 million from Spectrum Equity. www.bstock.com
Every January hands retailers the same reckoning: a wave of returns and unsold seasonal stock landing in the warehouse all at once. Warehouse capacity tightens, capital gets tied up, and traditional resale channels face more supply than they can absorb. …
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