Caterpillar is planning to build a mining truck facility in Batam, Indonesia, to tap growing markets across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Sentiment was underpinned for much of the day on suggestions that the European Central Bank is willing to exchange its holdings in Greek government bonds with the European Financial Stability Facility at a discounted price, which would allow Greece to tap the first tranche of its second bailout.
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The discussion will surely now turn to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which presumably Portugal will be forced to tap.