Updated throughout the day.

Apollo Management will buy Regis (NYSE: RGS) (NYPost)

A free trade deal between the US and South Korea is hung up on the issue of tariff’s on cars made in the Asian nation (WSJ)

Hermes will attempt to block at takeover by LVMH (Bloomberg)

Obama seeks to trade preservation of certain tax cuts in exchange for help to the jobless (NYT)

Douglas A. McIntyre