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Wall Street Breakfast Editors submit: Top Stories Office Depot, OfficeMax in merger talks. Office Depot ( ODP ) and OfficeMax ( OMX ) are reportedly in merger talks in a deal that could generate synergies of up to $700M, which is over a third of their combined market cap. SA Author Quoth the Raven ...
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