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Good Morning. It’s Monday, August 16, 2010. At this hour, US equity futures are trading lower. Overseas, the Asian markets fell, while the European markets are down. These are some of the stories making headlines this morning: Agrium (AGU) proposed buying AWB Limited for A.50 per share and said it submitted a fully financed proposal…LAN Airlines SA (LFL) and TAM SA (TAM) announced they entered into a non-binding MOU that outlines their intentions to combine their holdings under a single parent entity…Corning (GLW) announced that it reached an agreement with the shareholders of Plaslab SAS to acquire all outstanding shares of the company…BlackRock (BLK)to acquire Primasia Investment Trust, Reuters reports, and will help the firm expand its product range in Taiwan.
