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Caterpillar Inc., the world's No.

1 maker of earthmoving equipment, also reports today.

Its stock rose 52 cents to $62.59.

Kerkorian Stake ``All eyes will be on earnings from the big names today,'' said Farners Esparch, an analyst at Riva y Garcia Gestion SA in Barcelona, Spain, which oversees $500 million in assets.

``We've had some disappointments, so any positive surprises will give a boost'' to shares.

She said her company is ``positive on U.S.

stocks'' in the short term.

General Motors, the largest U.S.

automaker, rose 23 cents to $24.08 in Germany.

Kerkorian bought an additional 12 million of the automaker's shares.

The purchase was announced after the close of regular trading.

The carmaker may say today before the market opens that it had a loss of 16 cents per share last quarter, compared with a profit of $1.01 a year earlier, a Thomson survey showed.

Juniper Networks Inc., the world's second-largest maker of equipment that directs Internet traffic, lost $1.86, or 8.6 percent, to $19.66.

The company said yesterday that fourth- quarter sales were $575.5 million, less than the average estimate of $579.2 million in a Thomson survey of 30 analysts.

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