Join us for this St. Patrick's Day weekend celebration; with music, Gold Country Celtic Irish Dancers, corned beef and cabbage 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. Jack Russell Brewing Company, 2380 Larsen Drive, Apple Hill in Camino Free to watch the dancing www.jackrussellbrewing.com For more information contact: (530) 644-4722
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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