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SINGAPORE -- When Texas-based energy firm East Cameron Partners wanted to raise cash this year, it turned not to banks or the domestic bond market, but to the Middle East. The result was the first bond backed by U.S. assets that adheres to Islamic laws against paying or charging interest.

HOUSTON -- Two former Enron executives whose cooperation with prosecutors helped bring convictions for the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history received sharply reduced sentences Friday.

SEATTLE -- When Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga used to fly in style, his Gulfstream jet had room for only a dozen or so guests. Now his private jet of choice fits more than twice that many passengers in a cabin that would seat almost 150 as a commercial airliner.

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazilian steelmaker CSN jumped into the bidding Friday for Britain's Corus Group PLC, offering about $8 billion for Europe's second largest steelmaker.

NEW YORK -- As Four Seasons Hotels Inc. shareholders contemplate a $3.7 billion offer to take the company private, one in particular is in line for the equivalent of a stack of suitcases stuffed with money: Isadore Sharp. The chairman and CEO of the luxury hotel chain will get a special payment of $288 million if the deal goes through.

MILWAUKEE -- This Thanksgiving, leftover stuffing and turkey drumsticks aren't all that will go into plastic bags.

WASHINGTON -- Oil prices tumbled to a 17-month low below $56 a barrel on Friday, following a $2.50 sell-off the previous day prompted by mild autumn weather, ample winter fuel supplies and doubts about OPEC's willingness to carry out production cut.

CINCINNATI -- Federated Department Stores Inc. said Friday it will sell its Bridal Group division in two separate transactions for a total of $850 million.

LOS ANGELES -- Discount retailer Target backed off plans to pull in-store promotions of products from Walt Disney after Disney threatened not to ship DVDs of hit movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," a person familiar with the situation said Friday.