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Rydex Investments has updated the NAV for Thursday, September 4, 2008 from $77.93 to $78.65 for Rydex Inverse 2x Russell 2000 Strategy ETF .

Rydex Investments today announced the distribution declarations for seven CurrencyShares exchange traded products: CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust , CurrencyShares British Pound Sterling Trust , CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust , CurrencyShare

The Black & Decker Corporation today announced that Michael D. Mangan has been named Senior Vice President of the Corporation and President of the Worldwide Power Tools and Accessories business, reporting to Nolan D. Archibald, Chairman and Chief Exe

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist and leader of the Human Genome Project, has been awarded with the new Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University.

The Health Resources and Services Administration today announced $39 million in grants to increase and improve medical services at the nation's health centers.

Optelecom-NKF, Inc. , a leading global supplier of advanced video surveillance solutions, today announced the addition of a high-performance open codec platform to its extensive and growing Siqura product line.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, cost-plus fixed fee contract by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center,San Diego for C4ISR Systems Lifecycle Support Services. The period of performance is a three-

Katie Smith, 31, ofBaltimore, watched her mother, twice, battle and overcome lymphoma.