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AT&T, Freeport Lead February Bond Offerings to Fastest Start
BusinessWeek
8 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc., the second-largest US wireless-service provider, and miner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. led the fastest start on record for monthly bond sales, stoked by yields at almost all-time lows. AT&T and Freeport, the world's ...

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Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials Announces its Best-Ever Safety Record
packagePrinting (press release)
Of the business's 67 manufacturing facilities and distribution centers worldwide, 43 of them—or 64 percent—operated through 2011 without a single recordable incident. “It takes world-class operations to accomplish such outstanding safety results ...

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Surge in oil prices made US petroleum assets, companies a prime target for M&A ...
Washington Post
They're expected to keep rising in 2012 as world demand hits a new record. Natural gas prices recently hit a 10-year low. PwC said there were seven transactions in the Utica Shale that represented $6.7 billion in 2011, a jump from one deal in all of ...

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