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Air Liquide French industrial gases company said it planned to buy Messer Griesheim's industrial gas businesses in Germany, the UK and the United States for 2.68 billion euros. BOC ??

Aviva Britain's largest insurer reported flat full-year new sales figures and said its growth prospects for 2004 were strong. New business sales for life and pensions products rose slightly to 2.377 billion pounds above analysts forecast at 2.325 billion

John Laing said it expected to meet market expectations in the second half as it continued to win government contracts and grow the company

JD Wetherspoon said its like-for-like sales rose 4.9 percent in the 25 weeks to January 18 in line with expectations, slightly ahead of the 4.2 percent rise seen in the group's first-quarter.

British Vita furniture foam maker said annual profit would be at the lower end of market expectations because of a five million pound accounting error in its non-wovens division. Some operating costs in the non-wovens business had been misclassified as assets.

Eurotunnel later on today

Bespak (I),

Aviva FY Sales 2.34bn exp.

09.30 Dec Harmonised CPI y/y 1.2% exp. 09.30 Dec RPI-X y/y 2.5% exp.

10.00 OECD Economic Survey of the UK

AMD (Q4), Citigroup (Q4), General Motors (Q4), Motorola (Q4), Unisys (Q4), Johnson & Johnson, United Technologies

18.00 US Jan NAHB Housing Market Index 69.0 exp.

10.00 EMU Jan ZEW Economic Sentiment 73.3 exp. 11.00 EMU Nov Industrial Production m/m 0.5% exp.

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