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Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Webcasts the 2000 Basic Industries Conference on Yahoo!

27 November 2000

Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Webcasts the 2000 Basic Industries Conference on Yahoo!

    NEW YORK, Nov. 27 Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown is audio
webcasting its 2000 Basic Industries Conference, which is being held November
28-30 in New York.  The webcast is being delivered exclusively by Yahoo!
Broadcast.
    Over 75 companies in the following industries will be participating:

    -- Auto Parts
    -- Home Building
    -- Industrial & Environmental Services
    -- Machinery
    -- Mining & Metals
    -- Multi-Industry
    -- Packaging & Containers
    -- Paper & Forest Products

    Also, the various keynote presentations and panel presentations will be
webcast:

    -- Keynote speakers include Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown's Chief Economist
       and Global Investment Strategist Ed Yardeni, who will speak on Tuesday
       at noon and U.S.News & World Report's editor-at-large David Gergen, who
       will deliver the keynote presentation on Thursday at noon.
    -- Panel presentations include "Newsprint Hour" at 10:00am on Tuesday, an
       LBO panel at noon on Wednesday and a Home Builder Forum at 5:00pm on
       Wednesday

    To access the webcast of these presentations, please go to
http://webevents.broadcast.com/db/basicindconf1100.

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private banking.  Deutsche Bank is divided into five major business units:
Global Corporates and Institutions, Global Technology and Services, Asset
Management, Corporates and Real Estates and Private and Retail Banking.
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