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Deal of the day: A big contract with one of the oil majors working off the cost of Brazil spurred Nature Group 16.8% to 59p. The AIM Company will treat oil waste on board a floating production, storage and off-loading vessel. Nature promised that it would deliver “substantial” savings to the oil company, compared with onshore waste treatment. Planning revolt fuels fears over economy: Ministers must defy opposition to plans that would ease restrictions on building in the countryside, one of the country’s foremost business leaders has warned. The Government must “hold its course” as the row intensifies over proposed changes that would create a “presumption in favour of sustainable development”, David Frost, the departing Chief of the British Chambers of Commerce, told The Times. Berlusconi faces fresh storm over cuts to budget: With Italy still threatened by the Eurozone crisis, Silvio Berlusconi is being accused of fiddling while Rome burns. The Italian Prime Minister, facing popular protest, has begun backtracking from key parts of an austerity programme that was hurriedly enacted two weeks ago when Italy came under attack on financial markets. Lenders slash rates in battle for borrowers: Competition in the mortgage market intensified when another lender slashed the cost of fixed-rate home loans and new deals emerged for first-time buyers. Nationwide Building Society cut the cost of its five year fixed-rate deals by 0.1% points and the lender is now offering a rate of 3.69% to borrowers with a 30% deposit. ‘Warning bells’ as firms cut staff pensions: A third of large companies are slashing their workers’ pension pots before new rules will force them to enrol all staff automatically in a pension scheme, according to a landmark report to be published. The move threatens to leave a gulf in retirement provisions by cutting the size of pensions just as an ageing population requires them to be boosted, according to an industry-wide study by the Association of Consulting Actuaries. Anger over IMF calculation of Eurozone banks’ debt: Staff at the International Monetary Fund has clashed with colleagues at the European Central Bank over calculations said to paint an unfairly poor picture of Eurozone banks’ balance sheets, according to reports. The figures included in a draft of the forthcoming Global Financial Stability Report, present an analysis of Eurozone banks’ debts that Eurozone officials have rejected as biased and incomplete, according to the Financial Times. Mail.ru plans to focus on core business: The Russian internet company that owns a stake in Facebook is looking to sell its holding to focus on its core business. Matthew Hammond said that it was seeking to sell stakes in a number of hot Silicon Valley businesses, including Groupon, the coupon website, and Zynga, the social gaming company, which it inherited as part of its demerger from Digital Sky Technologies. Private finance schemes censured for ‘hiding’ profits: The private finance initiative has been a better deal for the private sector than the public purse, and investors have hidden tax revenues offshore and failed to share their profits on schemes with the Treasury, MPs have claimed. Members of the powerful House of Commons Public Accounts Committee have heaped further opprobrium on PFI, the scheme in which private companies have shared the risk but reaped the rewards in constructing hundreds of public sector buildings. How the U.K. waged a secret oil war in Libya: When the history of the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is finally written, two shabby disused rooms on the top floor of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will deserve a special mention. Next to redundant photocopiers and surrounded by maps of the Maghreb, half a dozen Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence officials worked for four months alongside Alan Duncan, the oil trader turned Minister, and MI6 on a second critical front. New Bond Street gives way to Parisian chic: New Bond Street has lost its title as Europe’s most expensive shopping street to the Champs-Elysées in Paris. A report by Cushman & Wakefield has revealed that a 5.3% growth in rents to €7,364 per square metre (£605 a square foot) in the year to June helped the French boulevard to leapfrog its London rival, where rents rose by 4.3% to €6,901 (£6,097). Savvy customers make the profit on the tab that flopped: The ill-fated HP TouchPad tablet computer is set for a last hurrah — thanks to people looking to invest in a piece of the past. HP shocked investors this month when it called time on its foray into smartphones and tablet computing only three months after launching the TouchPad. Mortgage sales at their lowest level for six years: Mortgage sales have fallen to their lowest level in six years, according to the latest figures from the Financial Services Authority. The City regulator, in its annual Product Sales Data report, said that mortgage sales between April 2010 and March 2011 were down by 7% on the previous year. Levy received $3.9 million settlement from 888: Gigi Levy received a settlement of $3.9 million from 888 Holdings following his resignation as Chief Executive in April, the gambling group said on Wednesday. Mr Levy has stayed on as a Non-Executive Director of 888, which reported an 18% increase in first half revenues to $154 million. Bank jitters to persist: The likes of Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays have lost half of their value in the past half year, as broader market nervousness about European banks’ exposure to the economic woes of the Eurozone has been compounded by fears that weak profitability will be eroded still further by another round of tough U.K. regulation. Tyrie fears new rules exacerbate bank problems: While attention is focused on the imminent publication of Sir John Vickers’ report into reform of the banking sector, the U.K.’s lenders face another and more pressing concern: tough rules that may oblige them to hold far higher levels of liquidity than their international rivals. T-Mobile/AT&T: DoJ makes wrong call: Only hours after AT&T pledged to repatriate 5,000 call-centre jobs if its acquisition of T-Mobile U.S.A was approved, the U.S. Department of Justice blocked the deal. The reason? Forget trifles such as call-centres – cutting the number of big telecoms companies in America from four to three reduces competition and hurts consumers. The decision could be challenged in court. As well as a (misplaced) signal of confidence in the transaction, a $3 billion break fee suggests that AT&T wanted the government to know it was more than ready to fight. Nor does it seem investors are convinced that it is game over. The share prices of AT&T and Deutsche Telekom fell by 4 and 7% respectively. Assuming mooted synergies – worth more than $20 billion once taxed and capitalised – were realistic but now gone, AT&T’s shares should have fallen by twice as much. It is also true that only by spreading infrastructure costs over many subscribers is enough profit made to invest in network upgrades. T-Mobile, with 34 million customers, is too small. And, as voice is replaced by data services, Americans do benefit from the best networks available. Eurozone banks: avoiding the doom loop: The Eurozone could easily fall into a self-reinforcing cycle of bank and government debt default. Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund has a solution: more bank capital. The cycle could start if sovereign debt worries cut off the supply of bank funding (the money needed to support operations). Morgan Stanley calculates that European banks need €80 billion before the end of the year. That is not even 1% of the outstanding sovereign debt in the European Union, but a shortfall could start a downward spiral of bank failures – if neither governments nor the European Central Bank were willing to replace fearful private investors. Ms Lagarde has not explained last week’s call for an “urgent recapitalisation” of European banks, but she probably believes investors would fund banks that have enough equity to survive substantial write-downs on Greek, Portuguese and Italian debt. True in principle, but it is almost inconceivable that banks could raise enough equity in a hurry to calm investors. BP: playing Russian roulette: BP has a remarkable ability to make enemies in Russia. As bailiffs raided one of its Moscow offices on Wednesday, it was hard to avoid the sinking feeling that it may once again be on the wrong side of the authorities there. A day after BP was elbowed aside by ExxonMobil as the preferred Arctic exploration partner for Rosneft, the omens do not look good. The raid may be a temporary setback. The real worry is the extent to which its Russia woes reveal a growing gulf between BP and its peers. Contrary to perceptions, BP has not been standing still operationally since April 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon disaster began. It has won final approval for two huge new ventures – the $7 billion purchase of Devon Energy’s oilfields in Brazil, and the $7.2 billion Indian gas deal with Reliance Industries – and sealed valuable smaller projects. These are the types of venture that leverage BP’s upstream expertise, which remains second to none. Reed’s Armour shields Engstrom from discontent: It is unusual for a Chief Financial Officer to become a target for shareholder disaffection, as Mark Armour has at lumbering FTSE 100 publisher Reed Elsevier. “Let’s oust the Finance Director!” sounds a little feeble as a rallying cry for an angry mob. “Let’s jostle a statistician!” would have a similarly unambitious ring. But if you would like a modicum of blood to be spilt on Reed’s boardroom carpet as evidence of a zeal for change, you might nominate Mr Armour as the donor. He is a relic of the era when Sir Crispin Davis ran Reed. He bears at least some of the blame for the pricey acquisition of Choicepoint, an insurance data business, and for an unpopular £1 billion ($1.6 billion) share placing that ensued in 2009, after Sir Crispin had left. Tokyo too tough for Tesco: Attention to detail matters in Japan, as Lombard learnt during a scary sushi-making course at Tokyo fish market a few years ago. So, too, in Japanese retailing, which Tesco plans to quit. The move will reinforce Japan’s reputation as a tough market for western supermarkets. Competition is fierce and incomers need to offer something new. This is easier for foreign fashion companies, such as Burberry and Paul Smith, than supermarkets. Carrefour threw in the towel in 2005. Walmart fights on, via its Seiyu subsidiary. Tesco’s 129 small stores, sparsely sprinkled across the Tokyo megalopolis, lacked the scale and edge to make inroads against local competition. The business, with sales of £476 million last year, is almost certainly lossmaking. Analysts speculate that it may attract an offer of about half sales from a buyer able to flex the right synergies. FTSE suffers worst run since financial crisis: The FTSE 100 has suffered its longest losing streak since the financial crisis, despite closing August with a strong finish. Britain’s benchmark share index dropped 421 points or 7.2% over a rollercoaster August to close at 5394.53 on Wednesday, the biggest monthly fall since May 2010. ‘Prickly’ Sir Mervyn King was nearly sacked by Labour government: The “prickly” relationship between Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, and Lord Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), was one reason regulators’ failed to prevent the banking crisis, Alistair Darling reveals in his memoirs. Bunzl delights after a busy first half of acquisitions: Bunzl has made a hugely successful business out of supplying companies with these peripheral necessities for many years. Bunzl is 10 times the size of its nearest competitor and uses that scale to pass on savings to its customers. The company keeps growing via more acquisitions, and had good news on that front at half year results. In the six months to June, Bunzl spent £123 million on seven companies. Chief Executive Mike Roney says it is comfortable trading within a range of 2 to 2.5 times net debt to EBITDA, meaning it has around £300 million headroom for further acquisitions. The company’s weakest market is the U.K. and Ireland, where around 17% of sales are dependent on government spending. Another chunk of revenues comes from the volatile construction sector, with the sale of safety equipment such as protective glasses and hard hats. As a result, this region saw sales slide 2%. That was more than offset by business in the rest of the world, and Bunzl enjoyed a 4% increase in total revenues, or 6%, stripping out currency fluctuations. Bunzl has been a Questor favourite for a long time, although our last recommendation was to hold. In terms of valuation, it is hard to compare the group with its peers as it has no close competitors. Over the past 15 years, Bunzl shares have traded on an average of 15 times earnings. They are currently on around 11 times this year’s earnings, with a forecast yield of 3.7%. Bunzl at 779p +57p Questor Says “Buy”. Computacenter’s shift into services is a sound strategy: Computacenter has been quietly tweaking its business model for a number of years and now appears to be reaping the rewards. The key change is from a focus on “shifting boxes” - as Chief Executive Mike Norris describes the sale of IT hardware - to servicing those boxes. First half results showed that services now represent 30% of sales, compared with just 11% in the same period back in 2007. Services contracts last a number of years, making earnings more predictable. It is also a more profitable business than “shifting boxes”. Mr Norris says services will continue to grow as a share of the business. In the six months to June, services revenues grew by 5.4%, stripping out currency fluctuations. The company also increased its services contract base by nearly 6% to £570 million. That has already delivered results and Computacenter expects a larger contribution from those contract wins in the second half. Results were no exception with product sales up 37% in Germany and services 10% higher. Operating profit in the country was a staggering 144% higher. This more than offset a poor performance in the U.K., where sales fell 16%, when a few large customers cut their orders. But Computacenter showed its mettle by boosting margins in the U.K. from 12% to 16.5%, meaning operating profits declined just 8%. The shares look cheap on less than 10 times this year’s earnings, with a forecast yield of 4%. Computacenter at 374.1p +4.6p. Questor Says “Buy”. City hits back at Vince Cable over banking reform comments: A row over banking regulation exploded into the open on Wednesday as the City rounded on business secretary Vince Cable for suggesting banks are using the Eurozone crisis to resist looming reforms. The bitter exchange also served to highlight divisions between Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and Liberal Democrat cabinet members, including Cable and party leader Nick Clegg. Oracle’s Africa dealings come under FBI scrutiny: U.S. authorities are investigating allegations that executives working for software group Oracle paid African officials in violation of anti-bribery laws. Agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the justice department had been investigating the claims for at least a year, the Wall Street Journal reported. Wealthy followers of fashion help Hermès increase profits by 49%: Wealthy followers of fashion helped Hermès post a 49% jump in half year profits to £257 million. The French luxury goods firm, whose designer handbags are popular with celebrities, such as Lily Cole, pictured, has been rattled by rival LVMH, which has amassed a creeping 21.4% stake, claiming to be a long-term investor. Former Boss at 888 hit a £2 million jackpot, despite presiding over disastrous acquisition of Mytopia: The former Boss of 888 walked off with a £2.4 million ‘golden goodbye’ earlier this year, despite presiding over the disastrous acquisition of social gaming business Mytopia – which resulted in a £12 million knock to half year numbers. Aer Lingus pins hopes on autumn bookings: Irish airline Aer Lingus nose-dived to wider first half losses after a row with unions but said strong autumn bookings should lift annual profits higher than expected. The flag carrier posted an operating loss of €27.8 million (£24.6 million) for the first six months against €19million a year ago as higher average fares failed to make up for a €15million loss from the dispute with cabin crew. Tesco checks out of Japan after 8 years: Tesco is saying sayonara to Japan and putting its supermarkets there up for sale after eight years of trying to break into the market. The decision to sell the chain of 129 shops in the Greater Tokyo area follows a review of the group’s Asian operations by Chief Executive Philip Clarke who took charge in March. Dickson Minto retains top spot as Scotland's highest-paying practice: Corporate boutique Dickson Minto will confirm its position as Scotland's highest- paying legal practice. The publicity-shy Edinburgh-based firm has again topped the league table on terms of profit per equity partner, according to Legal Business magazine, with its partners pocketing £950,000 each. Barclays raises the ante in bank reforms row: Barclays cranked up the pressure on the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to change its mind about recommending firewalls between retail and investment banking businesses ahead of its final report. Chris Lucas, group finance director, told a City conference the ICB's initial recommendations last spring to ring-fence the high street from the "casino" banking arms to shield the taxpayer from further banking bailouts was not Barclays' preferred model. Santander responds as complaints fall 31%: Santander slashed customer complaints by almost a third in the first half of 2011, after coming in for heavy criticism of its service standards last year. The number of complaints about the U.K. operations of the Spanish bank in the six months to the end of June was down 31% on the same period last year and 14% lower than in the second half of 2010. Complaints about banking were down 36% year on year, it has revealed. Shane Warne plays a strong hand as 888 trumps online rival: An advertising campaign featuring former Australian cricketer Shane Warne helped internet betting firm 888 to trump rival Bwin.Party as competition hots up in the online gaming sector. 888 posted a 59% jump in underlying profits to $20 million (£12 million) for the six months to 30 June on the back of a surge in new customers using its sites. Online 'passport' firm raises £550,000: Business angels and venture capitalists are pumping £550,000 of seed funding into an Edinburgh-based software firm that is developing a "digital passport" for online shopping. MiiCard, which is expected to launch a prototype in the run up to Christmas, aims to help shoppers prove their identity when making purchases over the internet. Call for action to stimulate U.K. growth: The government was urged to do more to stimulate the economy after a business lobby group again cut its U.K. growth forecasts amid the growing economic gloom. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) forecast GDP would expand by a feeble 1.1% in 2011, down from an earlier forecast of 1.3%. The BCC also cut its growth forecast for next year to 2.1% from 2.2%. Ireland's jobless rate hits 14%: Ireland's unemployment rate has risen to 14.4% on doubts that the bailed-out country can tame its debts and deficits. It has been trying to escape its three-year recession through export growth led by its multinational companies. But the domestic economy remains dormant because of weak consumer demand, high household debts and a collapsed real-estate market. BP dealt a second blow as Russian headquarters raided: BP was hit by a second blow in Russia as bailiffs raided its Moscow offices 24 hours after the group's hopes of reviving a stalled joint venture plan with state-owned Rosneft were crushed. The swoop on the Russian HQ of BP Exploration Operating Company was ordered by a court in Tyumen, Siberia, to search for documents related to the abortive tie-up with Rosneft. High oil prices help Valiant profits surge to $85.4 million: North Sea oil and gas firm Valiant Petroleum posted a near four-fold rise in interim profits, bolstered by a rise in production and higher oil prices. Aim-quoted Valiant, which also operates off the coast of the Faroe Islands and Norway, reported a pre-tax profit of $85.4 million (£52.5 million) for the six months to 30 June as oil prices rose 35% year-on-year. Costs bring down profits at Brown Forman: Higher raw material costs and advertising spending dented quarterly profits at Brown Forman, the company behind the Jack Daniel's whiskey brand. The firm - which also makes Finlandia vodka and Southern Comfort - said costs were higher for glass, used for bottling, and corn, which is used to make its bourbon.

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