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France will press for tighter controls on hedge funds, urging other industrialised nations to strengthen regulation of the industry and compel banks that lend them money to hold more capital

BOSTON----The Trustees of The Putnam Funds declared the following distributions at a meeting held today. RECORD PAYMENT FUND NAME AND DISTRIBUTIONS DATE DATE Putnam American Government Income Fund - Class A Shares $0.0330 per share investment income 2/18/09 2/20/09 Putnam Asset Allocation Conservative Fund - Class A Shares $0.0300 per share investment income 2/18/09 2/20/09 Putnam Diversified Income Trust - Class A Shares $0.0570 per share investment income 2/13/09 2/20/09 The George Putnam Fund of Boston - Class A Shares $0.1290 per share investment income 2/25/09 2/27/09 Putnam Global Income Trust - Class A Shares $0.0580 per share investment income 2/23/09 2/27/09 Putnam High Yield Advantage Fund - Class A Shares $0.0350 per share investment income 2/19/09 2/25/09 Putnam High Yield Trust - Class A Shares $0.0450 per share investment income 2/23/09 2/25/09 Putnam Income Fund - Class A Shares $0.0390 per share investment income 2/19/09 2/25/09 Putnam Income Strategies Fund - Class A S

The purchase of the French bank's asset management arm kept the hedge fund just above year-end minimum funds under management set in its loan terms

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Growing interest in dividend ETFs Cautious investors are nibbling at dividend-focused exchange-traded funds as they search for income and signs that stock markets are firming.

Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation related to possible insider trading in Microsoft stock by Pequot Capital Management, the hedge fund run by Arthur Samberg, the transcript of a recent court hearing shows. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan is leading the criminal investigation with help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to information in the transcript and lawyers involved in the case. As Portfolio.com reported in January, new evidence of more than $2 million in payments from Pequot to a former Microsoft employee had already prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission to reopen its civil investigation of the trading. The agency had closed the probe in 2006 without taking action. That original SEC investigation, which also had looked into whether Samberg had acquired inside information on a different company from Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, received considerable public criticism after it was closed. The SEC fired its lead investigat

BOSTON----The Trustees of The Putnam Funds declared the following distributions at a meeting held today. EX RECORD PAYMENT FUND NAME AND DISTRIBUTIONS DATE DATE DATE Putnam High Income Securities Fund $0.0489 per share investment income 2/20/09 2/24/09 3/2/09 Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust $0.0380 per share investment income 2/20/09 2/24/09 3/2/09 Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust $0.0450 per share investment income 2/20/09 2/24/09 3/2/09 Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust $0566 per share investment income 2/20/09 2/24/09 3/2/09 Putnam Premier Income Trust $0.0430 per share investment income 2/20/09 2/24/09 3/2/09

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Dominion Citrus Income Fund (the 'Fund') (TSX: DOM.UN) and Dominion Citrus Limited ('DCL') (TSX: DMN.PR.A) jointly announce that the order dismissing the motion seeking a certificate of pending litigation, referred to in the press release of the Fund and DCL dated February 9, 2009, is currently under appeal.

Technology companies that received funding from Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin Technology Partnership network from 2002 through 2006 boosted the state's gross state product by $9.3 billion over that time, according to a study released Thursday.

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) American Chemical Society President Thomas H. Lane, Ph.D., today praised Congress for including 'significant investments' in scientific research, education and energy in the compromise American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and urged continued support for these 'critical provisions' which provide immediate jobs yet help meet the nation's long-term objectives.