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Caterpillar Buying Bucyrus in Big Bet on Mining

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. set the largest deal in its history, saying it would buy Bucyrus International Inc. for $7.6 billion to expand in mining.

*For more on this story, read the full Reuters article.

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