Fording/Teck: Exit Stage Left?

August 27, 2008
Volume 2 Issue 248

      Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG), an unincorporated, open-ended "mutual fund trust", and Teck Cominco Ltd. (TCK) have entered into a "plan of a...

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