RBC Capital

MONTREAL, Quebec, July 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - BCE today announced the company has entered into a final agreement with a company formed by an investor group led by Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners Inc., Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. As a result of the execution of the final agreement, amending the definitive agreement dated June 29, 2007: - The purchase price will remain $42.75 per common share; - The Purchaser and the Lenders have delivered fully negotiated and executed credit documents for the purpose of funding the transaction, including an executed credit agreement and other key financing documents; - The reverse break fee payable by the Purchaser in the ...

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NEW YORK, July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Soaring gas and food prices and a stock market that just endured its worst June performance since the Great Depression are draining consumers' wallets as well as their confidence, according to the most recent results of the RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index. The survey found that, while consumer attitudes regarding the employment market show signs of stabilizing, Americans' confidence in future personal financial conditions, current conditions and investments continue to weaken. As a result, the overall RBC CASH Index for July 2008, released today by RBC, dropped to 14.6, a new all-time low since its inception in 2002, compared to 22.5 in June. "The decline of the RBC CASH Index suggests that consumer sentiment has fallen to the dismal level of the early 1980s. Consumers are being ground down by the cumulative effects of high gasoline and food prices, a falling stock market, weakening housing ...