Pre-Marketing: Softbank buying Sprint

* Big deal: Softbank buying Sprint

* Chrystia Freeland: 1% self-destruction

* Dark social: Do we have the Web’s history wrong?

* Christopher Witkowsky: CalPERS’ emerging managers problem

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares climb and the Nikkei rallies.

* Joshua Brown: The buyback epidemic

* S&P: Beware the return of covenant-lite loans

* Josh Barro: The final word on Romney’s tax plan

* Gavyn Davies: Will central banks cancel government debt?

* Peter Kafka: Is New York’s digital boom slowing down?

* Matter of time: FTC moving closer to Google anti-trust case

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* Mark Mobius discusses emerging markets:

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