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BEAVERTON, OR (MARKET WIRE) Merix Corporation (NASDAQ: MERX), a leading provider of high reliability printed circuit boards, announced today that it will release results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 prior to the market open. Following the release, Merix will host a conference call at 6:30 a.m. PDT with a simultaneous webcast to discuss the company's quarterly results, the industry and the outlook for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. To listen to the webcast, log on to the Merix website at www.merix.com.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd. ('FMGL') announced today that, while it will continue its general policy of limiting new subscriptions for units of the Friedberg Global Macro Hedge Fund (the 'Fund'), it is prepared to accept only during the month of October 2008, net new investments in the Fund up to a maximum of US$10 million.

JPMorgan Chase acquired the troubled thrift Washington Mutual Inc., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced late Thursday, marking yet the latest stunning development in the ongoing credit crisis.

JP Morgan Chase, the American banking giant, is set to announce that it will buy the bulk of Washington Mutual’s operations. Precise details of the agreement were unclear last night but JP Mor...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX: XTX) announced that today the Supreme Court of British Columbia granted the Final Order the company was seeking under subsection 192(4) of the Canada Business Corporations Act, approving the company's previously disclosed arrangement transaction with Schneider Electric S.A. ('Schneider Electric').

Multiplied Media Corporation today announced receipt of notice of termination of their distribution agreement with Idearc Media in the United States. Idearc Media is undertaking a major restructuring of their business to better deal with current economic conditions.

eyShares in stockbroker, Collins Stewart, fell nearly 15 per cent after it announced it was no longer in takeover talks with an unnamed bidder

General Electric underlined the depth of the financial crisis, issuing its second profit warning of the year and announcing radical action to conserve cash, cut debt and reduce its reliance on its financial services division

SACRAMENTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) InsWeb Corp. (NASDAQ: INSW), a leading online insurance marketplace, today announced a partnership with Quote Burst(TM), a lead management company that offers a real-time Internet lead processing and quoting system to Allstate(R) agents. Quote Burst's automatic-email system, Typhoon(TM), has been integrated into InsWeb's AgentInsider(R) Lead Program and instantly sends an auto or homeowners insurance quote via email to prospective consumers on behalf of the Allstate agent.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Drive products Income Fund (TSX: DPI.UN) (the 'Fund') announces that Russell Bilyk, the President of the Fund, has entered into a private agreement to acquire 547,900 outstanding units of the Fund in addition to the 1,649,858 Class B LP units of Drive Products Limited Partnership already owned by Mr. Bilyk. In addition, Mr. Bilyk has acquired 11,200 outstanding units of the Fund on the Toronto Stock Exchange. As disclosed in a press release issued by Mr. Bilyk, the purchases, in aggregate, represent approximately 8.1% of the 6,889,365 outstanding units of the Fund, or approximately 4.2% of