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• UPDATE 1-India cotton imports seen lower than estimated -traders Friday, 22 Mar 2013 | 12:33 AM ET

  *Traders estimate India has about 2.8 mln bales of stocks. But that picture could change after India said on Wednesday the state-run Cotton Corp of India would offload stocks in the open market.

• UPDATE 4-China plays down impact of cotton reserves on market Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 5:14 PM ET

  *China seen as not increasing yarn import duty. SINGAPORE, March 21- Chinese cotton industry officials downplayed the impact of the country's ballooning reserves on Thursday, a day after prices in New York fell more than 2 percent on plans by China and fellow Asian giant India to sell down stockpiles of the fiber.

• UPDATE 3-China plays down impact of cotton reserves, yarn duty talk Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 12:38 AM ET

  *China seen as not increasing yarn import duty. SINGAPORE, March 21- Chinese cotton industry officials downplayed the impact of the country's ballooning reserves on Thursday, a day after prices in New York fell more than 2 percent on plans by China and fellow Asian giant India to sell down stockpiles of the fiber.

• Kitchen 'Jewelry' Boosts Profits: Williams-Sonoma CEO Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 10:46 AM ET

  

  A "strong holiday lineup" of new products propelled Williams-Sonoma to better-than-expected quarterly earnings, company CEO Laura Alber told CNBC.

• ANALYSIS-Failing firms cloud China's LED lighting vision Thursday, 7 Feb 2013 | 4:00 PM ET

  HONG KONG, Feb 8- One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future.

• COLUMN-LEDs set to dominate lighting technology: Wynn Wednesday, 9 Jan 2013 | 11:17 AM ET

  LONDON, Jan 9- The LED lighting industry is set to dominate the global market more than a century after its discovery, benefitting from a widespread ban of conventional incandescent bulbs and as the market share of competing green replacements fade.