Oct 24 (Reuters) - Dutch lighting company Signify LIGHT.AS reported an 8.4% drop in its third-quarter sales on Friday, below market expectations, citing a slower than expected U.S. market.
The world's biggest lightmaker's quarterly sales were 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion), while analysts had forecast them at 1.46 billion euros on average in company-compiled consensus.
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(Reporting by Leo Marchandon and Jérôme Terroy in Gdansk; editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)
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