CATERPILLAR : Q4 net tumbles 32 percent

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said on Monday that quarterly earnings fell more than 32 percent as the downturn that began in the United States metastasized into a full-blown global recession that hit sales of its earth-moving construction and mining equipment.

A woman lies beside her new born baby at a health centre in Borobazar village, about 280 km (173 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, November 11, 2008. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal