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Why Two-Meter Billionaire Prokhorov Says He's Only NBA Owner Who Can Dunk Mikhail Prokhorov steps off his Gulfstream V into the swirling snow and subzero temperatures of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, where he’s come to visit his gold mine. Though it’s almost midnight, Prokhorov has no interest in retiring to his hotel room. Instead, he’s whisked away in a police-escorted Mercedes to the local gym, where he puts in two hours running on a treadmill and lifting weights, Bloomberg Markets reports in its May issue.

U.S.-Bound Boxes Pile Up at Asian Ports as Ship Lines Avoid Adding Vessels South Korea’s biggest port, overwhelmed with empty containers a year ago, is now dealing with shipping lines that have more cargo than they can carry.

Cash Remedy Preventing Lehman-Like Run Lacking From Congressional Reforms In 2,615 pages of financial reform legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress, there are no rules to ensure that banks keep enough cash-like assets when credit disappears.

American Shoppers Emerging With Best Buy's Sales Signaling Retail Revival Companies from Saks Inc. to Best Buy Co. are growing more confident that the recent revival of consumer spending is more than just a blip.

Halliburton Hunts for Bacteria Killer to Stave Off Crackdown on Shale Gas Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger Ltd., trying to forestall a regulatory crackdown that would cut natural-gas drilling, are developing ways to eliminate the need for chemicals that may taint water supplies near wells.

AIG Increases Concentration of Storm Risk With Sale of Life Insurer Units American International Group Inc., the insurer that stayed profitable through the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, may be more exposed to disasters after divesting life insurance units to repay its government bailout.

JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named as Conspirators in U.S. Muni Bid-Rigging Case JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG were among more than a dozen Wall Street firms involved in a conspiracy to pay below-market interest rates to U.S. state and local governments on investments, according to documents filed in a U.S. Justice Department criminal antitrust case.

New York Helicopter Commute for $200 a Day Signals Revival on Wall Street Liberty Helicopters Inc. is offering to fly weary commuters from New Jersey to Manhattan for about $200 a day, saving them 14 hours in traffic a week and signaling that Wall Street may have seen the worst of the recession.

Buffett Backs Toys Gone `Green' as Parents Sniff Out Plastic at Wal-Mart When Norma Ramos went to the Wal- Mart in North Bergen, New Jersey, last week to shop for her son’s birthday party, she passed over the plastic toys in favor of wooden ones with minimal paint.

Anheuser-Busch InBev Pits Madonna Against Paris Hilton in Marketing Blitz Anheuser-Busch InBev NV hosted Madonna and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger in its Brahma Box and plastered Rio de Janeiro’s streets with billboards during last month’s Carnival as part of an advertising blitz.

Fortescue Returns Crushing Rio Tinto in Outback Where China Finds Its Ore Zeljko Zaic, a leathery-skinned surveyor at a Chinese-backed mining company, stands atop a sun- scorched ridge in the Australian Outback and kicks a lump of red iron ore lying on the trail.

CGI's Roach Hunting for Financial Services, Government Deals as Cash Grows CGI Group Inc., Canada’s biggest computer-services provider, is hunting for deals to beef up its financial services and government units as the company’s available cash pile grows to $1.7 billion.

Goldman Sachs Is Lured to Warsaw by $10 Billion of Government Asset Sales New York. London. Warsaw?

Recalls Triple as Electronics Run Cars, Catching Regulators `Unprepared' U.S. vehicle recalls related to electronic systems have tripled and investigations quadrupled in the past 30 years following a surge in the use of computers to control functions such as acceleration.

`Worthless' Home Syndrome Targeted as Japan Encourages Owners to Renovate Japan’s government, faced with more houses than households, is encouraging people to renovate their homes as a step toward creating a strong resale market.

Brenntag IPO Raises $1 Billion in Germany's Second-Biggest 2010 Offering Brenntag AG, the chemicals distributor owned by BC Partners Ltd., raised 747.5 million euros ($1 billion) in Germany’s second-biggest initial public offering since 2007.

Zimbabwe's Stocks Post Longest Rally This Year on Review of Ownership Law Zimbabwe shares posted their longest 2010 rally as the government reviews forcing companies to transfer ownership to black citizens. Exotix USA Inc. and Kingdom Stock Brokers Ltd. said further gains may be limited.

Farmers Sickened as India Pumps Chemical Banned in West to Meet Crop Needs Seven-year-old Yeshaswini Gowda lies on the floor of her home in southern India unable to talk or walk. Her mother blames the severe disability on endosulfan, an insecticide banned in 60 countries.

Health Law's Biggest Surprise Is Page 1,617 Demanding What Drugs Work Best Page 1,617 of the 2,400-page law signed by President Barack Obama this week -- the most sweeping change to U.S. health-care in 45 years -- sparked little of the debate surrounding the expansion of coverage to 32 million Americans or its tax on employees’ “Cadillac” insurance plans.