Warner bids

Warner Music Group narrowed its list of bid ders to three: Ron Bur kle’s Yucaipa Cos., Len Blavatnik’s Access In dustries Holdings and billionaire brothers Tom and Alec Gores, said a person familiar with the matter.

Prices up

The core Consumer Price Index edged up 0.1 percent after rising 0.2 percent in February, the Labor Department said, compared with expecta tions of a 0.2 percent gain.

More for Les

CBS chief Les Moon ves received 2010 com pensation valued at about $57.7 million, up by about a third from the previous year.

Golden tickets

Live Nation chief Mi chael Rapino’s compensa tion doubled to $15.9 mil lion in 2010, WSJ.com reported, while Chairman Irving Azoff received $22.8 million. Both got $2 million cash bonuses when the company’s merger with Ticketmas ter closed in January 2010.

CVS remedy

CVS Caremark’s retail pharmacy division will pay $17.5 million to alle gations that it over charged the government by billing Medicaid pro grams for more than it was owed.