Tuesday //27January2004 - 17:30 (UTC) US Dollar banknotes' real value (guaranteed by gold) is approximately equal to the 9 per cent of its nominal value, the one of the Euro approximately to the 25 per cent. Saturday, 17 January 2004 - 8:30 (UTC) - Following the 2003 classification of the 500 largest companies in the world (Global 500 - 2003) published by «Fortune», the Italian Company Avatar Spa has the highest registered stock - 199,000 million EUR, par to 248,750 million USD nominal value, while all the others companies are estimated at stock market value (stockholder's equity) - and comes just before Vodafone Group Inc (second classified with 162.707 million EUR, par to 203,383.8 million USD). Avatar Spa is also 68th in the assets classification.

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