DIARY - Global Company News Preview - Week ending Nov. 20

Nov. 13 (Reuters) - Here are the top 5 global company news

stories and scheduled events for the week ending Nov. 20,
2009. The diary is arranged by industry sector. It's compiled by
the Reuters company news editors for news planning.

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TOP STORIES IN THE WEEK ENDING NOV 20

* Reuters Finance Summit with Ken Feinberg; John Thain & Roger
Altman
* IPOs led by LVS Macau, Mingsheng, Maxis debut & Cloud Peak
* TMT Barcelona conference; Cisco-Tandberg & Dell Q3
* Fertiliser takeover battles come to head: Agrium, CF & Terra
* U.S. retail results led by Target, Home Depot & Sears

SCHEDULED EVENTS (dates in parenthesis)

FINANCIAL
- Trading: ICAP H1 (17); Close Bros Q1 (18)
- Funds: Investec H1 (19)
- IPOs: CapitaLand's shopping mall $2 bln pricing (17); China
Mingsheng Bank $4 bln pricing (18); LVS Macau $3 bln pricing,
Maxis debut (19); Cloud Peak $520 mln pricing/debut; Fortinet
$120 mln pricing/debut; 7 Days $100 mln) pricing/debut;
HealthPort $90 mln pricing/debut; Global defense $70 mln
pricing/debut;
- Banks: UBS investor day, Erste pricing of 1.6 bln euro
rights issue, Fortis Q3 (17); MUFG Q2 (18); Piraeus Bank Q3 (20)
- Insurers: Irish Life trade (17)
- Other: Reuters Finance Summit with

ECONOMY
- Retailing: Target, Saks, TJX Q3, Burberry H1 (17); Limited
Brands, BJ's Wholesale, Chico's, Gymboree Q3 (18) Sears, Gap;,
Footlocker, Bon-Ton, SteinMart, Childeren's Place Q3 (19);
AnnTaylor Q3 (20)
- Home improvement/building: Lowe's Q3 (16); Home Depot Q3,
British Land H1 (17); Bovis trade (18); BAM Q3 (19); D.R. Horton
Q4 (20)
- Transport: Dubai Air Show (15-18) with Boeing, Emirates &
Airbus; EADS Q3 (16); Interview U.S. auto czar Ron Bloom,
Easyjet (17); Air France Q2 (18); AirAsia Q3 (20)
- Food/supermarkets: Ahold Q3 (18); WM Morrison trade (19);
J.M. Smucker Q2 (20)
- Beverage/beer: Coca-Cola investor meet (16-17); SABMiller H1
(19);
- Consumer: MS Global Consumer conference (19-20) with
Colgate, Cadbury & P&G.

TMT
- Top stories: Deadline Cisco Tandberg offer (18); Barcelona
TMT conference (18-19) with ; Dell Q3 (19)
- Software: Salesforce.com, Autodesk Q3 (17); Intuit Q1 (19)
- China Web: Sina Q3 (17); NetEase Q3 (18)
- Telecoms: AIS Q3 (16); Portugal Telecom Q3 (17); China
Mobile Congress in HK (17-19) with Bharti, China Mobile, Huawei;
GVT auction (19)
- Other: NetApp Q3 (18); Gamestop Q3 (19)

RESOURCES
- Ag stocks: Agrium offer for CF expires (18); Potash CFO
sector outlook (19); Terra hldrs vote on CF bid (20)
- Alternatives: Hyflux CFO interview (17); Clean Asia Expo in
SG (18-20) with Vestas Asia, Conergy; Suntech Q3 (19)
- Mining: Lonmin H1 (16); BHP CEO speech (18)
- Equipment: Jacobs Engineering Q4 (17)
- Oil: Merrill Energy conference (17) with Exxon, Chevron &
ConocoPhillips; Premier Oil trade (19)
- Other: Reliance Industries AGM (17)

HEALTH
- Orlando cadiologist meet (15-18) with focus on Merck's
Vytorin vs. Abbott's Niaspan & Thoratec device
- FDA documents on Roche/Novartis omalizumab.

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