KINGSPORT, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) today announced earnings per diluted share of $1.38 for third quarter 2009 versus $1.33 for third quarter 2008. Earnings per diluted share for third quarter 2009 were reduced $0.16 per share by the reversal of a previously recognized investment tax credit for the company’s Beaumont, Texas, industrial gasification project as discussed below. "We continued to make solid progress improving our profitability during what rem
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