REDUCING A STAKE Sears Holdings announced on Thursday that it
would spin off part of its Canadian unit, a poor performer that
has weighed down the struggling retailer.  The move to sell
shares in the unit, if approved by regulators, would reduce the
holding company's stake in Sears Canada to 51 percent, from 95
percent. The planned spinoff is the latest step in a broader
effort by Sears and its chairman, the hedge fund investor Edward
S. Lampert, above, to raise cash and allay concerns about
liquidity problems. BEN PROTESS  BIG ACQUISITION Agilent
Technologies, a maker of scientific instruments, agreed on
Thursday to buy Dako, a Danish cancer diagnostics company, for
$2.2 billion.  The acquisition is the largest ever made by
Agilent, which was spun off from Hewlett-Packard more than a
decade ago and posted revenue of $6.6 billion last year. Under
the terms of the deal, Agilent, based in Santa Clara, Calif.,
will pay cash for Dako, owned by the Swedish private equity firm
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