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[BRIEFING.COM] After opening appreciably higher, the stock market closed Thursday just above the unchanged mark as participants traded listlessly in a shortened session just ahead of the Independence Day holiday. The Nasdaq, however, finished with a...more...

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BCE buyers finalize funding

TORONTO (Reuters) - The buyers of telecoms company BCE Inc are sticking to the agreed C$34.8-billion ($34.1 billion) purchase price and have finalized the funding for the deal to go ahead, the company said on Friday. 7/4/2008 10:27 AM

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