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Markets Economy/Politics Commentary Sports Culture RESOURCES: Bloomberg TV Bloomberg Radio Markets Europe E-Mail This Story Printer-Friendly Format Euro Strengthens on Speculation Schroeder, Merkel Will End Power Deadlock European Stocks Including BASF, Bayer May Fall; BHP, Miners Might Advance Boots Sales Drop for Third Quarter as Demand Slackens, Competition Grows European Stocks Including BASF, Bayer May Fall; Miners May Gain Sept.

29 (Bloomberg) - European stocks most sensitive to higher energy costs may fall as crude oil climbed back above $66 a barrel.

Shares including BASF AG and Bayer AG may drop after their U.S.-traded securities slipped.

We won't ``see oil below $60 this year,'' said David Thurtell, a commodity strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

We won't ``see $50 a barrel until 2007.'' Mining stocks including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Group may rise after copper prices reached a record and gold touched its highest in 17 years.

October futures on France's CAC 40 Index dropped 4 to 4602 at 7:46 a.m.

in London.

The U.K.'s FTSE 100 Index may lose 2 to 5492, and Germany's DAX Index may slip 5 to 4595, according to Cantor Index, a betting company.

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...Later results showed estrogen-only pills, sold as Premarin, slightly increased older women’s risk of a stroke and possibly dementia.

The new results for estrogen-only pills echo previous data from the same study showing estrogen-progestin had little effect on older women’s overall well-being and quality of life.

The 10,739 women in the latest study, which appeared in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, had all had hysterectomies.

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Lisa Lau, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center who was not involved in the study, said it bolsters current thinking “that hormone replacement therapy needs to be individual.” “It’s not a vitamin that needs to be added to everybody’s regime,” she said.

“It certainly will not make you feel like you’re 20 years old or give you a great sex life.” email this print this News Copyright ...