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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Announces First Quarter Earnings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) announced earnings of $.89 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2008, an increase of 27.1% compared to $.70 per share in the first quarter of 2007. Net income for the first quarter amounted to $64.2 million compared to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Declares Stock and Quarterly Dividends]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) announced today that its Board of Directors approved a 5 percent stock dividend payable on December 13, 2007 to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 29, 2007. For the first time, the Company will be issuing the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Commerce Bank]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. & Denver -- Missouri-based Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBSH) and Commerce Bank in Denver, Colorado today jointly announce the completion of the acquisition of Commerce Bank by Commerce Bancshares, Inc. The transaction was valued at $29.5 million, consisting entirely of cash. Commerce's acquisition of the independent Colorado Commerce...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PrivateBank identifies new targets.(Annual Meetings)(Brief article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: H. Lee Murphy    With its first expansion outside the Midwest in the past year,  PrivateBancorp Inc. now has a big goal: take its wealth-management  formula national.    Chicago-based PrivateBank, which earlier branched into Milwaukee,  St. Louis and Detroit, last year opened...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports First Quarter Earnings Per Share of $.73]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBSH) announced earnings of $.73 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2007, a decrease of 1.4% compared to $.74 per share in the first quarter of 2006. Net income for the first quarter amounted to $51.5 million compared with $52.9...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports First Nine Months Earnings Per Share Growth of 3%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) announced earnings of $2.41 per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, an increase of 3% compared to $2.35 per share during the same period in 2005. Net income for the first nine months of 2006 amounted to $162.8...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports First Quarter EPS Growth of 13%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBSH) announced earnings of $.78 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2006, an increase of 13.0% compared to $.69 per share in the first quarter of 2005. Net income for the first quarter amounted to $52.9 million compared with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Earnings Per Share Growth of 5%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBSH) announced record earnings of $.80 per share for the three months ended June 30, 2005, an increase of 5% compared to $.76 per share in the second quarter 2004 and $.73 in the first quarter 2005. Net income for the second quarter...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports First Quarter Earnings Per Share Growth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBSH) announced earnings of $.73 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2005, an increase of 3% compared to $.71 per share in the first quarter of 2004. Net income for the first quarter amounted to $49.8 million compared with $51.3...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports First Nine Months Earnings Per Share Growth of 14%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBSH) announced record earnings of $2.47 per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2004, an increase of 14% compared to $2.17 per share during the same period in 2003. Net income for the first nine months of 2004 amounted to $167.7...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares, Inc. Reports First Six Months Earnings Per Share Growth of 12%]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBSH) announced record earnings of $.79 per share for the three months ended June 30, 2004, an increase of 10% compared to $.72 per share in 2003. Net income for the second quarter amounted to $53.8 million compared with $50.5 million in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kansas City, Mo.-Based Bank Treating Stock Options as Expenses.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Patrick L. Thimangu, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Feb. 7--Commerce Bancshares Inc. has joined other American  companies that  have begun treating stock options as expenses.    Commerce, parent company of Commerce Bank, announced this week that  it ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First National Bank of Olathe, Union Bank in Kansas Appoint Chairman.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Margolies, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Apr. 2--George D. Thompson has been elected chairman of First  National  Bank of Olathe and Union Bank, succeeding Raymond Glasnapp,  who died in  February.    Thompson previously was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kansas City, St. Louis-Based Banking Firm Feels Effect of Interest Rate Cuts.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200104/ai_n21491229]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Davis, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Apr. 3--Falling interest rates probably squeezed first-quarter  profit at Commerce Bancshares Inc., adding to a seasonal earnings slump,  an industry analyst said Monday.    The Kansas City- and St. Louis-based...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commercial Federal Corp. of Omaha to Buy Kansas-based Bank.(Originated from The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_199709/ai_n22340005]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sep. 3--Continuing a wave of consolidation in the local  financial services industry, El Dorado-based Mid Continent Bancshares  Inc., said late Tuesday that it had agreed to be acquired by Commercial  Federal Corp. of Omaha.       The transaction, worth $84.15 million, is expected...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 1997 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commercial Federal Corp. of Omaha to Buy Kansas-based Bank.(Originated from The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_199709/ai_n32355105]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[     Sep. 3--Continuing a wave of consolidation in the local  financial services industry, El Dorado-based Mid Continent Bancshares  Inc., said late Tuesday that it had agreed to be acquired by Commercial  Federal Corp. of Omaha.        The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 1997 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commerce Bancshares Inc. reports record first quarter earnings for 1996]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1996_April_17/ai_18198499]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 17, 1996--Commerce Bancshares Inc. announced record earnings of $27.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 1996, an increase of 9 percent compared to $25.0 million in the same period last year.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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