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-- Sekisui House Ltd
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-- Nippon Steel Corp
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-- Isuzu Motors Ltd on Wednesday projected thatgroup pretax profit will decline 9.3 percent to 80 billion yen ($996 million) for the year ending in March 2012, but the figurewas better than expected.
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