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News Headlines:    The Dow jumped back above the 9,000 level Tuesday, rising along with the broad market, as investors' sentiment remained positive despite a warning from Nokia.

Credit Suisse Group's Winterthur insurance arm has agreed to sell its British direct insurance business Churchill to Royal Bank of Scotland for around 1.1 billion pounds in cash.

Royal Bank of Scotland said Wednesday that it has continued to make good progress in the first half of 2003. Key features of its interim results, which will be released on 5 August, are expected to include continued strong growth in income, a further improvement in efficiency, and provisions in line with guidance given at the results presentation in February. Consequently, profits are anticipated to be in line with expectations.

Radstone Technology said its pretax profit for the year was 6.1 million, compared with a year-earlier 4.6 million. The CEO said: "Our Embedded Computing business, which accounts for the majority of our profits, continues to provide technical leadership in the rugged embedded computing market. 

Rolls-Royce and i Royal & Sun Alliance are set to rejoin the FTSE 100 three months after leaving the index.

Yates released full year pretax profit of 9.7 million The CEO said "Current trading in the first seven weeks of the new financial year has matched our expectations, but market conditions remain tough. "From an operational standpoint, with a sharper market edge and with reduced borrowings, we have made a good start in re-establishing the group as a leading player in the sector.

Oasis Healthcare Wednesday said its pretax loss for the year to March 31 was GBP2.3 million compared with a year earlier loss of .

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Calendar All GMT	United Kingdom (F)inals (I)nterim	United States (Click Flag)	Europe & World
Wed 11th	Oasis Healthcare (F) PBT 0.5k exp. Compco Holdings (F), Henlys Group (I), Radstone Technology (F), Speedy Hire (F), Yates Group (F) Premier Farnell (AGM), Cobham (AGM) 09.30 May Unemployment 0.8k exp. 09.30 April Average Earnings 3m ma y/y +3.5% exp.	19.00 Fed Beige Book	11.00 German April Industrial Output y/y +0.4% exp. 11.00 German May CPI m/m
	Aberdeen Asset Management (2), Acal (13.4), Aggregate Industries (1.52), BAA (12.7), BHP Billiton (US$0.75), BSS Group (8.5), Chaucer Holdings (1.65), De Vere Group (4), Great Portland Estates (6.83), Hardy Underwriting (7.25), Headlam (9.3), Helical BAR (9), ITE Group (0.5), JJB Sports (5), Johnson Matthey (17.7), Mice Group (1.27), NHP (0.75), Pilkington (3.25), South Staffordshire (12.4), Youngs & Co Breweries (11.1)
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