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In the U.S. despite analysts saying the economy grew at the strongest pace in four years in the third quarter stocks closed mixed. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 reaching new multimonth highs while the Dow edged lower due to weakness in Caterpillar and IBM after the release of their quarterly earnings.

The U.S. University of Michigan consumer sentiment index due at 2:45 p.m. will be important to gauge the strength of the U.S. recovery.HSBC said it would move 4,000 UK call centre and back-office processing jobs mainly to India and Malaysia but also to China over the next 2-1/2 years.Chelsfield The FT reported that the property firm could update on the progress of its chairman's proposed 300 pence per share buy-out today.Jarvis The Guardian reported that the engineering and services firm would announce a 300 million pound contract to build rooms for the University of Lancaster. BAY Northwest Airlines and Continental posted quarterly profits that beat Wall Street analysts' average estimates, but the carriers warned of tough times ahead.International Power said it had secured a new three-year unsecured $450 million revolving debt facility to refinance a larger, existing facility due to expire next year.

Harvey Nash reduce losses and increase sales as the sector rebounds.

Harvey Nash (I)

Caterpillar (Q3), Nortel (Q3), Sybase (Q3)

13.30 Sep Housing Starts 1830k exp. 14.50 Oct Preliminary Michigan Sentiment 88.0 exp.

Akzo Nobel (Q3),

11.00 Aug Industrial Production m/m 11.00 Aug Trade Balance

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