EUROPE - Around 5% of Europe's top 500 companies have severely underfunded pension liabilities, research by rating agency Standard & Poor's shows.
The figure is based on year end 2001 which, given the fall in stock market values, makes it likely that such liabilities will have increased over the past year. S&P said that such liabilities wo...
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