41.   Several precision machinery makers fell.

42.   So, too, does the experience of Rene Braginsky this year at Sulzer AG, a Swiss machinery maker.

43.   Stork NV, a Dutch machinery maker, has said it wants to buy most of Fokker Aviation.

44.   Sulzer is the third Swiss weaving machinery maker to suffer in a contracting market.

45.   Telecommunications company Nokia AB formed a Brazilian unit last year and heavy machinery maker Valmet Oy may expand its operations in the state of Sao Paulo.

46.   That followed upbeat reports from two other heavy machinery makers on Friday.

47.   Swiss machinery makers including Saurer AG, Rieter AG and Sulzer AG all reported first-half earnings soared as orders from abroad increased.

48.   SWISS stocks declined, paced by machinery maker Sulzer AG, on renewed concern Asian economic turmoil could hurt profits of Swiss exporters that trade there.

49.   That means exports by machinery makers like Maruyama Mfg. are likely to fall.

50.   The board of Saurer AG, the ailing Swiss textile machinery maker, has appointed Ernst Thomke as its new interim chief executive officer.