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* Kleinwort Benson soars on counterbid (Adds details, quotes)

FRANKFURT, Nov 30 (Reuters) - BASF's oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall said on Monday it had started production at the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian North Sea, where it holds a 15 percent share.

MILAN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - European shares opened lower on Monday, led by BHP Billiton after news Brazil could seek damages for the burst of a dam, while Delta Lloyd slumped on capital raising plans.

* At eve-of-summit rallies, marchers say 'No Planet B' (Updates with Hollande comment para 7)

ALMATY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will keep its floating exchange rate after allowing its tenge currency to slide in line with oil prices and ordering bloated state holdings and companies to slim down, its president said on Monday.

SYDNEY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton said on Monday its chairman and three other board members would oversee its response to the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil as clean-up efforts continue amid confirmation arsenic had been found in river water.

KAMPALA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Uganda's state-run National Social Security Fund (NSSF), the country's sole pensions firm, intends to buy a stake in a planned $2.5 billion refinery to process the country's crude, the fund's top official told Reuters on Monday.

* Blast was one of biggest to hit infrastructure in China (Adds background)

SAO PAULO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian financier André Esteves resigned as chief executive and chairman of Grupo BTG Pactual SA late on Sunday after he was jailed as part of a corruption probe rapidly ensnaring Latin America's largest independent investment bank.

These are bleak times across much of the nation's "oil patch." Layoffs are spreading and rigs are being laid up. One state -- Alaska -- is defying the trend, at least for now.

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