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Mattress company Tempur-Pedic is buying rival Sealy for about $228.6 million in cash while also taking on hundreds of millions more in Sealy debt. Tempur-Pedic International Inc. said Thursday that it will pay $2.

Spain announced a crisis budget for 2013 based mostly on spending cuts in what many see as an effort to pre-empt the likely conditions of an international bailout. Ministry budgets were slashed by 8.

Samsung Electronics, which has vaulted the value chain on the strength of its hardware, will go out and buy mobile content providers, a senior executive told Reuters, to compete with Apple, Google and Amazon.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended its public health alert about beef from an Alberta plant to stores in 30 states, including retail giant Walmart. The alert means XL Foods Inc.

Stronach forms party to seek Austrian presidency >B12

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Campbell Soup Co. is closing two U.S. plants and cutting more than 700 jobs as it looks to trim costs amid declining consumption of its canned soups.

Canada is undermining its own objectives in free trade negotiations around the world by not seeking conditions to ensure that currencies are also free, say economists with the CIBC.

Saskatchewan's population has had the most growth in a single year since 1971. The province says the latest figures from Statistics Canada show the population grew by 22,154 people between July 1, 2011, and this past July 1.