"It would be a major issue, " said Tom Gallagher, a tax attorney with Cozen O'Connor.

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Connie Mack took a new turn Thursday as candidate Tom Gallagher was expected to end his campaign and run instead for state insurance commissioner, sources close to Gallagher said.

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Yet Tom Gallagher, an analyst at ISI Group, a broker-dealer, estimates that investors' expectations of yields in five years' time, when such temporary factors will have faded, are no higher than they were last summer.

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Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Noel Gallagher and Jessie J were among the big-name performers in June.

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