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Business Non-Stop — 2( А.П.Чужакин. МИР ПЕРЕВОДА-3,2005, стр 78 – 94)

1. The European Commission's panel of experts recommended that the European Union should decide not to approve of Boeing's merger with McDonnell Douglas, though it has been given the go-ahead by American antitrust regulators.

* * *British Telecommunications which is due to merge with MCI Communications in a $21 billion deal, expressed "surprise and disappointment" that the American telecoms group would lose $800 m this year — double what was expected — on its local telephone operations. MCI said its expansion plans were well known to ВТ.

2. John Walter resigned after only eight months as AT&T's president. The board had refused to back him to become the telecom giant's next chief executive.

* * *Bill Gates is by far the richest businessman in the world, according Forbes magazine, which reckons his net worth has soared by $ 18 billion during the past year. Of the 200 people on the magazine's super-rich list, 60 are American, 56 Asian, and only 44 are to be found in Europe.

3. Britain's ICI sold S3 billion worth of its industrial-chemicals business to DuPont, America's biggest chemicals group. ICI also sold a 62% stake in ICI Australia for £1 billion ($1.68 billion). The cash from these sales will help to finance ICI's £4.9 billion purchase of Unilever's speciality-chemicals business.

* * *An American federal court upheld the use of "dead hand" poison pills as a tactic in defending companies against hostile takeovers. The controversial tactic in effect gives directors of companies the power to thwart a takeover even after they have been ousted from their positions by shareholders.

4.Advanced Tissue Sciences, an American biotechnology company claimed it would soon be able to grow a human heart in the laboratory. The company has already managed to grow heart valves, heart muscles, blood vessels and human finger joints. The European Parliament approved on first reading a law that would harmonise national patent legislation on genetic engineering, and would allow continent-wide patents for genetic inventions.

5. Bernard Arnault, the chairman of France's luxury-goods group LVMH, proposed merging his company's wine and spirits business with those of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. The merger would create a group with sales of £7.4 billion ($12.4 billion). Mr Arnault, who has opposed the planned merger of Guinness and GrandMet, is Guinness’s biggest shareholder. Since the announced merger, he has also acquired 6.4% of Grand Metropolitan.

6. For the fourth consecutive month, American consumer prices rose by only 0.1% below expectations. For the first six months this year consult prices climbed by an annualised 1.4%, the smallest rise for 11 yeas. America's stockmarket surged in response. The Dow Jones industrial average rose past 8,000 for the first time.

* * * The number of companies filing for bankruptcy in Japan rose by 10.4% to 7,857 in the first six months of this year, which is the highest level in the past 11 years.

7. Swiss Bank Corporation and Japan's Long-Term Credit Bank announced a joint venture. The two banks plan to create an investment, banking and asset-management business in Japan. SBC is expected to invest about $850m in the alliance. SBC also announced a joint venture in Russia, where it plans to combine its corporate-finance business Brunswick Investment, a Moscow securities brokerage.

* * * South Korea's banks agreed to bail out the troubled Kia Group, which owns the country's third-largest car maker. The group had debts of 9.5 trillion won ($10.6 billion) at the end of this month.

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