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Consumer Products & Retail

UPDATE 4-Tesco Q3 sales towards bottom end of forecasts

* Overseas underlying sales up 5.4 pct; forecast 3-12 pct  Full Article  

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

UPDATE 2-Japan's Elpida makes show of support to ProMOS 10:32am GMT 

* Elpida CEO says may provide next-generation tech to ProMOS  Full Article  

Health & Drugs

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Body mass and waist size can predict heart disease Monday, 7 Dec 2009 

LONDON (Reuters) - Measuring body mass index or waist size in overweight people can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, Dutch scientists said on Monday.  Full Article  

Autos & Transport

UPDATE 3-Exxon, partners approve $15 bln PNG LNG project 9:31am GMT 

* Project partners to explore expansion options for LNG plant  Full Article  

Financial Services

UPDATE 1-Lloyds gets strong demand for U.S. bond exchange 10:23am GMT 

LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group Plc said it had strong investor demand for its billion-dollar U.S. bond exchange, a key plank of the British bank's capital-raising plan to escape a government scheme for bad debts.  Full Article  

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Commodity Last Pct Chg Trade Date/Time
Oil 76.37 -0.08% 8 Dec 11:34 GMT
Gold 1163.2 -0.07% 8 Dec 11:14 GMT