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• Corn Drops From Two-Month High as Demand to Weaken for U.S. Crop

  Updated 13 minutes ago

  Corn declined from the highest level in more than two months on concern that a strengthening dollar would hurt demand for supplies from the U.S., the world’s largest grower. Wheat and soybeans also fell.

• Blackhawks Tie Stanley Cup Final With 6-5 Victory Over Bruins

  Updated 1 hour, 27 minutes ago

  Brent Seabrook scored on a 59-foot slapshot in overtime as the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Boston Bruins 6-5 to even the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Final at two games each.

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  Sodomy Hazing Leaves 13-Year-Old Victim Outcast in Colorado Town

  Updated 42 minutes ago

  At the state high-school wrestling tournament in Denver last year, three upperclassmen cornered a 13-year-old boy on an empty school bus, bound him with duct tape and sodomized him with a pencil.

• Husch Blackwell, Clifford Chance, Jones: Business of Law

  Updated 3 hours, 1 minute ago

  Husch Blackwell LLP, a 543-lawyer firm, merged with 65-attorney Brown McCarroll LLP on June 18, giving it new outposts in Texas, including offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston.

• Blackhawks Beat Bruins to Tie Stanley Cup Final at Two Wins Each

  Updated 3 hours, 22 minutes ago

  The Chicago Blackhawks won 6-5 in overtime at the Boston Bruins to tie the Stanley Cup Final at two games apiece.

• Japan Stock Futures Drop as Fed Signals Stimulus Cut This Year

  Japanese and Australian stock futures fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may reduce the pace of asset purchases later this year as economic risks subside.

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  Boeing-Airbus Duopoly Tightens Order Grip Over Upstarts

  Updated 4 minutes ago

  Boeing Co. and Airbus SAS reasserted their dominance at the aviation industry’s largest trade expo as challengers including Bombardier Inc. failed to win any orders for single-aisle jets, the workhorses of global airline fleets.

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  Japan Futures Drop as Fed Sinks U.S. Stocks; Aussie Slips

  Updated 3 hours, 9 minutes ago

  Japanese and Australian equity futures followed U.S. stocks lower as the dollar surged after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said bond purchases may be reduced later this year should risks to the U.S. economy abate. Australia’s currency slumped while oil slid.

• Chicago Gasoline Hits 3-Month Low as Refiners Boost Rates

  Chicago gasoline weakened to the lowest level in more than three months as area refineries processed more oil last week, signaling more production that may boost supply.

• Emerging Stocks Slump on Fed Statement as Ibovespa Sinks

  Updated 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

  Emerging-market stocks slumped after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may reduce the pace of economic stimulus later this year. Brazil’s Ibovespa and the real tumbled to four-year lows.

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