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Bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd. on Friday struck a $722 million deal to acquire rival Financial Securities Assurance Holdings from French-Belgian lender Dexia. Dexia, which has struggled amid the credit crunch, will receive $361 million and 44.6 ...

HONG KONG Asian stock markets on Thursday had some of their steepest declines this month, amid fresh worries about the state of the U.S. and Chinese economies, and poor corporate news out of the United States. Key indexes like the Nikkei 225 in ...