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US Stocks fell sharply after earnings and forecasts from Merck, JP Morgan and Amazon. Tomorrow is a monster day on Wall street with Microsoft being the most significant earnings of the week.

Aviva Britain's largest insurer released 9 month life and pensions sales below expectations but said there were signs of a recovery. New business sales were 1.745 billion pounds compared with 1.746 billion last year and analysts estimate of 1.788 billion. Profit margins on the new business were 25 percent up from 23.8 percent.

Marconi telecoms said Q2 sales grew 6 percent on the preceding quarter as it warned of tough trading conditions in the third quarter. Sales in the three months to September 30 stood at 389 million pounds down from 514 million last year.

AstraZeneca figures at 10am.

Lloyds: Australia & New Zealand Banking Group is close to deciding whether to buy the NZ unit and could be announced as early as Friday.

Rolls-Royce "The Group confirms that current trading is consistent with existing guidance," it said in a statement.

Amvescap (Q3) AstraZeneca (Q3 GMT 10:00) PBT 720-1000m exp. Aviva (Q3) New Business 1.8bn exp. Marconi (Q2), Shell (Q3) PBT $3.25bn exp.

Dow Chemicals, Applied Micro Circuits,  Bristol Myers, Xerox (Q3), Colgate Palmolive (Q3) Goodyear (Q3), Medimmune (Q3), Microsoft (Q1), NCR (Q3), Reebok (Q1), Schering (Q3)

13:30 US weekly jobless claims, 383k exp.

HVB Group, Renault, Lafarge, Volvo

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