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* Morgan Stanley, the second-largest U.S. securities firm, said it received a subpoena this month from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of the regulator’s probe of trading in U.S. energy markets.
* U.S. retail gasoline rose 0.1 cent to $1.44 a gallon in the week ended Monday, the highest price since Sept. 24, 2001, the Energy Department reported. Prices were highest on the West Coast, where they fell 1.2 cents to $1.482.
* Liberate Technologies Inc., a San Carlos, Calif.-based interactive-television software maker, said it would restate fourth-quarter and year-end results because it may have improperly accounted for a license fee.
* Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Toys R Us Inc. and KB Toys said they had refused to carry a new video game by Acclaim Entertainment Inc. billed as the first major release to feature full-action nudity and major characters who are prostitutes and pimps.
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