Incredibly talented Laura Love is a rare recording artist (8 cds), authentic and deeply rooted, with an extremely diverse audience appeal.Folk-funk, Afro-Celtic,and hip-Alachian sound. Audience favorite at past Strawberry Music Festival. 2:00 pm Shakespeare Club, 2940 Bedford Ave Placerville. Hwy 50 east.3rd light left on Bedford $17 advance, $20 at door, and $12 child 12 & under. www.edpjc.org For more information contact: The El Dorado Peace & Justice Community (530) 622-6900
TORONTO (Reuters) - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the world's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Inc said on Friday that its buyers had finalized funding and were sticking to their C$34.8-billion ($34.1 billion) purchase price.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co may sell its 20 percent stake in financial news and data provider Bloomberg LP to a blind trust controlled by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, The New York Post reported on Friday.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Banking Commission on Friday fined Societe Generale 4 million euros ($6.3 million) for serious breaches in internal controls revealed by the French bank's 4.9 billion euro rogue trading loss.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - World stocks edged lower on Friday, getting no relief from a decline in crude prices as concerns of further banking write-downs weighed on financial shares.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Battered Swiss bank UBS said on Friday it should be saved from another hefty loss in the second quarter by a large tax credit, giving a much-needed though short-lived boost to its share price.
Mar. 22 - U.S. stocks finished narrowly mixed on Thursday as investors juggled profit warnings, rising energy costs and uncertainty about the direction of interest rates.
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