ASIANET DAILY SUMMARY - JUNE 15, 2004.

(From Asia Pulse)

SYDNEY, June 15 /AsiaNet/ --

ING FINANCIALS...

HONG KONG: ING Financial Markets (ING) announced that due to a string of recent data surprises in growth across Asia, that it had upgraded its GDP forecasts for Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.

NOVARTIS ANNOUNCEMENT...

PARIS: Novartis announced today at the European Society of Hypertension meeting and simultaneously published online in The Lancet, the results of VALUE (Valsartan Antihypertensive Long-term Use Evaluation Trial) a prospective, double-blind, randomised, active-controlled study conducted at 934 clinical sites in 31 countries.

www.novartis.com

ECREDIT ANNOUNCEMENT...

DEDHAM, Mass: eCredit announced that Hagemeyer has broadened its relationship with eCredit by committing to implement eCredit nFusion to automate its collections processes.

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