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*Plant delay seen depleting Lynas cash reserve. MELBOURNE, Oct 11- Shares in Lynas Corp Ltd. Lynas received the temporary operating licence in September for the rare earths plant, the biggest outside China.

SYDNEY, Oct 11- Australian shares fell 0.6 percent early on Thursday, following weak leads from Wall Street as U.S. equities sank on corporate warnings of slower growth, with investors waiting on local jobs data later in the morning for an update on the domestic economy.

MELBOURNE, Oct 11- Shares in mineral sands miner Iluka Resources fell as much as 8.7 percent in early trade on Thursday after it reported a sharp slump in first quarter revenue.

MELBOURNE, Oct 11- Shares in Lynas Corp Ltd. slid 19 percent on Thursday after the company said it would not be able to start production in October at its Malaysian rare earths plant because a court had extended a hold on its operating licence to Nov. 8.

MELBOURNE, Oct 11- Australian shares are likely to extend losses into a second day on Thursday after U.S. equities sank on corporate warnings of slower growth, though local price moves may be limited ahead of monthly jobs data.

NEW YORK, Oct 10- PrivateBancorp Inc:. *Shares off 5 percent after the bell on stock offering, tarp repayment plan. ( (New York Treasury Desk; Tel: 223 6300)).

NEW YORK, Oct 10- The shares of wireless service provider MetroPCS closed down 4 about percent on Wednesday after a source said Sprint Nextel Corp is still weighing whether to make a counter bid for the company.

Oct 10- Shares of refining companies with exposure to the volatile California fuel market fell sharply on Wednesday as an immediate supply crisis eased, but extended refinery outages threatened to keep pressure on gasoline prices.

STOCKS NEWS Reuters Results diary Stocks on the move Real-time Equity News 1810 GMT 10 Oct12- Fan Milk rises on earnings expectations---------------------------------------------------------------------. Fan Milk advances 0.05 cedis to 3 cedis on 17,300 shares traded, leading the GSE Composite index up 1.57 points, or 0.15 percent, to 1,044.12 points.

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 10- A group of black South African shareholders has sold a stake in Absa Group, the country's biggest retail bank, worth about $370 million, exiting one of the post-apartheid era's high profile "black empowerment" deals.

AMSTERDAM/ BRUSSELS, Oct 10- EU antitrust regulators will next week tell United Parcel Service Inc that its bid for TNT Express will hurt competition, two sources close to the matter said, forcing the U.S. company to offer concessions or risk a veto. Shares in Dutch delivery group TNT Express ended unchanged at 8.15 euros on Wednesday.

The FTSE Small Cap index closes 0.2 percent lower, while the blue chips shed 0.6 percent, and the mid caps lose 0.7 percent. Oxford BioMedica falls 6.9 percent as the firm says it is closing a mid-stage clinical trial of its cancer vaccine TroVax in U.S. patients with prostate cancer, dealing a further blow to the troubled product.

LAOGS, Oct 10- Nigeria's share index climbed to a 20- month high to the cross 27,000 point threshold on Thursday, driven higher by gains in banking and commodities stocks. Shares in Diamond Bank rose 9.83 percent to 4.47 naira per share, their second day in a row of rising almost the maximum 10 percent allowed, boosted by strong earnings.

Oct 10- U.S. tax preparer H&R Block Inc said it was exploring strategic alternatives for its banking unit to avoid heavy costs associated with stricter supervision under the Dodd-Frank Act. H&R Block, like other companies with small banking units, is under pressure to get out of the business to escape costly oversight by the U.S.

Oct 10- U.S. tax preparer H&R Block Inc said it was exploring strategic alternatives for its banking unit to avoid heavy costs associated with stricter supervision under the Dodd-Frank Act. H&R Block, like other companies with small banking units, is under pressure to get out of the business to escape costly oversight by the U.S.

The end of merger talks between EADS and BAE Systems has proven profitable news for the hedge funds and arbitrage traders using a so-called "Chinese spread". Most have held their long positions, and put on an arbitrage trade using their original longs in the first place, "a Paris- based arbitrage trader said.

COMPANIES Fastenal Q3 2012 Safeway Inc. Q3 2012 MACRO DATA 0600 DE CPI 0645 FR HICP 1230 US Import/Export Prices 1230 US Initial Claims Reuters messaging rm:// atul.prakash.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net.

Saxo recommends targeting small cap stocks which stand to outperform larger counterparts in a fourth quarter set to be marked by economic uncertainty. "We foresee subdued economic growth going forward as the financial repression continues," Saxo analysts write in a note.