US - Verizon Communications, the second-largest US phone company, will take a charge of $600m in its 2010 results as it changes the way it accounts for fluctuations in its pension funds.
The company is cutting the expected return on the funds, increasing its liability by $2.9bn for last year, according to a statement from the New York-based Verizon today. The changes will make pred...
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