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jobs[ID:nSP47234] * outline caribou moose Nikkei down reindeer hunting shows in seesaw trade as yen and TDK weigh [ID:nT79835] * Dlr edges up vs euro but capped before jobs data [ID:nT80315] * Oil rises above $42 on Saudi cuts, eyes US data[ID:nSP104411] * TREASURIES-Steady in Asia before U.S. jobs data[ID:nT98138] * Gold weaker as dollar firms, US jobs data eyed [ID:nT90984] * METALS-Copper prices slip after 8 pct London surge [ID:nSP9549]COMPANY NEWS: NATIXIS (CNAT.PA) France's Natixis could post losses of between 1.5 billion euros and 2billion euros for 2008 and a further recapitalisation of the bank cannot beruled out, daily Les Echos reports. A spokeswoman for France's fourth-biggestlisted bank declined to comment on the report. For more double click on [CNAT.PA-LEN-RTRS] COMMERZBANK (CBKG.DE) The German government will appoint two representatives to Commerzbank'ssupervisory board after it agreed to become the bank's largest shareholder,German business daily Handelsblatt reported, citing government sources. For details, see: [CBKG.DE-LEN-RTRS] BNP PARIBAS (BNPP.PA) BNP Paribas expects to remain "comfortably" in profit in 2008 and 2009, itschief executive said on Thursday.

Baudoin Prot also told the BFM radio that theFrench bank had won 200,000 new customers in 2008 caribou herd . For details, see: [BNPP.PA-LEN-RTRS] AIR FRANCE-KLM (AIRF.PA), ALITALIA AZPIa.MI, LUFTHANSA (LHAG.DE) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday talks betweenAlitalia and Air France-KLM are at a very advanced stage, but if Lufthansa wereto make a good offer for the Italian carrier Alitalia would still consider it hunting nwt . For more double click on [AIRF.PA] SWISS LIFE (SLHN.VX) Insurer Swiss Life said it has set at 30 euros ($40.67) a share the cashcompensation for the squeeze out of remaining shareholders in German financialadviser AWD AWDG.DE carabou . The cost of the squeeze out amounts to about 38 millioneuros, Swiss Life said in a statement carribou .

For details, see:[ID:nL9486312] SANOFI-AVENTIS (SASY.PA) Sanofi-Aventis is studying the possibility of making a takeover bid forDutch vaccine maker Crucell NV (CRCL.AS), Les Echos reported caribou herds . Crucell onWednesday said it was in the early stages of friendly merger talks with U.S.drugmaker Wyeth WYE.N safari nordik . A Sanofi-Aventis spokesman said on Friday he had nocomment to make on the report club chambeaux . RIO TINTO (RIO.L), BHP BILLITON (BLT.L) Rio Tinto (RIO.AX)(RIO.L) will cut coking coal production as demand fromAsian steel mills weakens amid the global slowdown, though rival BHP Billiton isstill to decide whether cuts are needed caribous .

For details, see: [ID:nSYD425811] PREMIERE PREGn.DE Premiere will issue new shares at 3.76 euros apiece in the first of twoplanned capital hikes to overhaul its finances . For details, see: [IDn:nL8121073] (Reporting by Blaise Robinson; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter) Stocks Stocks carabou hunting . (Adds more details, quotes) BRUSSELS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Belgian pharmaceutical group UCB(UCB.BR) said on Friday it will enter a partnership with Wilex(WL6G.DE) in a move that will give UCB about 13 percent of theGerman biotech firm outfitters . Under the alliance Wilex will acquire UCB's preclinicalportfolio of five programmes for cancer drugs . UCB will maintain exclusive rights to re-purchase theprogrammes and assume responsibility for further developing andmarketing each drug after the initial clinical studies for eachhave been completed, UCB said.Under the deal the Belgian firm will also invest 10 millioneuros in Wilex upon the closing of the deal. UCB will also make milestone payments of 10 million euros intotal, expected within about 12 months of the finalisation ofthe deal, UCB said. "This alliance will give UCB the opportunity to focus our(research and development) priorities on our core indicationareas, central nervous system and immunology," said UCB vice-president, Melanie Lee.