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Business Non-Stop — 1 ( А.П.Чужакин. МИР ПЕРЕВОДА-3,2005, стр 78 – 94)

1. Japan's current-account surplus soared by 56% to ¥1.02 trillion ($8.91 billion), as exports continued to grow while domestic demand was weak. Over the first six months, the surplus rose by 40%, to¥5.05 trillion, bringing the surplus close to 2.5% of GDP. The Tokyo stockmarket had its biggest one-day fall this year on worries about the state of the economy. The IMF urged Japan to tighten credit as soon as the adverse effects of April's increase in consumption tax have faded.

2.The Bundesbank gave warning in its monthly report that it would be prepared to raise interest rates in order to keep inflation in check. But it left the repo rate unchanged at 3% for another week.

* * * Inflation in America remains subdued. Consumer prices rose by 2.2% the year to July, down on June's figure. * * * The IMF and, in a show of solidarity, a range of Asian countries led by Japan, came up with a $16 billion loan deal to help Thailand salvage its wrecked economy.

3. India picked six merchant banks to lead-manage the sale of minority stakes, likely to total more than $1 billion, in two public firms. Coordinating the issue of global depositary receipts by Gas Authority of India, the country's main natural-gas supplier, will be BZW, Morgan Stanley and Robert Fleming/Jardine Fleming. Goldman Sachs, HSBS and Merrill Lynch will handle the issue of Mahanager Telephone Nigam, which controls local calls in Delhi.

4. Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's biggest bank, made an agreed bid of SFr 14.3 billion ($9.4 billion) for Winterthur Group, one of Switzerland's biggest insurers. Behind the "merger," as both sides see it, is the hope of raising the profile of bank assurance — the selling of insurance through bank branches — in the country. Martin Ebner, whose belief in shareholder activism famously made him a thorn in the side of UBS, recently became Winterthur's biggest shareholder, but the two groups say the merger is not a defensive move.

5. Swiss Bank Corporation's purchase of S.G.Warburg seems to be paying off. The formerly British merchant bank contributed the bulk of its parent's first-half profits for the first time, for overall (total) earnings of SFr l.33 billion ($924 m), an 84% increase. * * * General Dynamics, maker of the Abrams tank and warships, bid $1 billion for United Defense. If the offer succeeds America will be left with only one major manufacturer of armoured vehicles (tanks).

6. Problems at ВНР, Australia's largest company and the world's second-largest copper producer, came to a head. The boss of its Petroleum unit quit — the third top executive to leave — and the share price plunged. * * * Wayne Huizenga's acquisitive Republic Industries, which has grabbed several American car-hire businesses recently, is heading for Europe withan agreement to buy EuroDollar, which operates mainly in Britain, for £ 95m($150m). In London, EuroDollar's share price rose 60%.

7. Pre-tax profits at Incentive, controlled by the Wallenberg family, rose to €11.7 billion in the first half compared with €2 billion a year earlier as income from several sales — notably half its stake in ABB engineering - kicked in. Incentive has shifted attention from investment to medical technology and health care; now it is to spin off (get rid of) Munters maker of equipment to control air humidity that has annual sales of €2 billion. Shares in Incentive jumped.

8.Shares in Reader's Digest Association, which have almost halved this year, revived a tad after the chairman and chief executive, James Schadt, quit. The company has failed to attract younger readers to its monthly magazine. * * *Nicky Oppenheimer, a cricket-loving scion (heir) of the family behind De Beers, became chairman of the diamond firm in place of Ogilvie Thompson. De Beers announced disappointing interim results at the same time.

9. In the latest attack on those involved in the film industry scandal, India's rags-to-riches music baron, 41-year old Gulshan Kumar, was shot dead outside a temple, prompting the prime minister to praise his contribution to the film-music business. * * * For the first time in a 12-month period, more than 100m passengers were handled by seven British airports. A record 10.2 m passengers passed through their doors in July despite the strike at British Airways which reduced airport traffic by about 2% in the month.

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