Friday, May 25, 2007

GLOBAL MARKETS-M&A activity boosts stocks, dollar dips

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, May 25 - U.S. share prices rose on
Friday after Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. agreed to buy a Nordic
exchanges company while the dollar slipped on data showing U.S.
existing home sales last month neared a four-year low.




Treasury debt prices, meanwhile, remained on track for a
third straight week of losses, weighed down by a recent spate
of strong U.S. economic data, while oil prices rose ahead of a
U.S. holiday weekend and the start of the summer driving
season.


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