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News Headlines:    The Dow & S&P rose steadily while the Nasdaq just failed to finish in positive territory. Traders said they expect the market to trade sideways for the remainder of the summer, without any unexpected surprise economic report to cause excitement.

Anglo American mining reported a forecast beating two percent rise in half year profits but said the outlook for its key businesses remained challenging. Net profit rose to $856 million for the six months ended June 30 from $840 million last year. Analysts' forecasts ranged from $800 to $830 million. Anglo declared an interim dividend of 15 cents per share, unchanged from last year

Bradford & Bingley said that first-half profit fell 1.9 percent because of a slump in transactions at its estate agent business and falling sales of investment products. For the six months it dropped to 132.4 million pounds from 135 million ahead of the expected profits of about 130 million pounds The bank proposed an interim dividend of 5.5 pence, up 12.2 percent on a year earlier.

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