12:06 PM EST - BCE Inc. : warned its $34.8 billion leveraged buyout stood on the brink of collapse on Wednesday after accountants ruled that the company that would emerge from the deal would fail a solvency test because of its huge debt load. Shares of BCE, Canada's biggest telecom company, shed more than a third of their value as investors reacted to the latest twist in the saga of a leveraged buyout deal that ranks as the world's largest. BCE Inc.
shares T.BCE are trading down 15 cents at $25.10.
