If the Senate takes up the bill the debate is expected tobegin on Nov 30 after the U

If the Senate takes up the bill, the debate is expected tobegin on Nov 30, after the U.S. ETPresenter: Heidi Melin, CMO Andrew Ashton, Vice President, Worldwide FinanceThese presentations will be webcast and can be accessed on theInternet on Dec. The pan-European benchmark, which slumped 45 percent in 2008due to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression ofthe 1930s, is up 41 percent from its lifetime low of March 9. For latest earnings estimates made by Toyo Keizai, pleasedouble click on 9621.TK1..

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