While you were sleeping: Caution prevails
                    
        By Margreet Dietz
July 30 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street was flat in cautious trading, with sentiment bolstered by corporate earnings including from Merck and news that Windstream can spin off its telecommunications assets into a tax-lowering real estate investment trust.
Shares of Windstream soared, last up 11.6 percent, after the company announced its tax-free spinoff plans. Shares of rivals AT&T and Verizon also advanced, last up 2.8 percent and 1.6 percent respectively, amid expectations they can benefit from the same.
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