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BT Group PLC, Britain's biggest telecommunications company, reported a 6.2 percent decline Thursday in its fourth quarter profit, as costs rose and it lost some wholesale customers to broadband services.
Net profit fell to 426 million pounds ($828.5 million) in the three months ending March 31, compared with 454 million pounds for the quarter a year ago.
Revenue rose 2.5 percent to 5.42 billion pounds ($10.5 billion) from 5.29 billion pounds a year ago
The company said it incurred costs of 110 million pounds ($213.9 million) in the quarter to cut jobs and reorganize the company.

Wholesale revenue has fallen as demand for broadband has increased in Britain, leading Carphone Warehouse Group PLC and British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC to "unbundle" lines, rolling out their own infrastructure and ending rental agreements with BT's wholesale unit.
Full year profit dropped to 1.74 billion pounds ($3.38 billion) from 2.85 billion pounds in the previous year. Annual revenue rose 2.4 percent to 20.7 billion pounds ($40.3 billion) from 20.22 billion pounds
Despite the decline in net profit, the company's shares rose 2.6 percent to 229 pence ($4.45) amid the strong revenue and relief the results had not fallen short of analysts' expectations, as they did in the third quarter.
Nomura analyst Martin Mabbutt said that the outlook was "mildly positive," with no great surprises.

Revenue for the global services unit rose 10 percent to 2.23 billion pounds ($4.3 billion), above the 2.15 billion pounds ($4.2 billion) expected by analysts. Adjusted margins for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization in the unit rose to 13.7 percent.
Free cash flow for the company came in at 1.71 billion pounds ($3.3 billion), 9 percent up on 1.59 billion pounds and strongly above analyst forecasts of 1.57 billion pounds ($3.1 billion).

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China has emerged as the world's second largest gold producer in 2007, when its output reached 270.29 tons and is well on course to overtake South Africa to occupy the number one slot.
The output of South Africa, the worlds largest producer of the yellow metal, was just two tons more than that of China, the China Gold Association said.
China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, has set the gold production target of 1,300 tons from 2006 to 2010, during which period the country's gold base reserve is also aimed to be increased by 3,000 to 3,500 tons.

"South Africa has been the biggest gold producer since 1905. However, China is going to challenge its position," Zhou Hongtao, a gold analyst, was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency.
The last five years have seen China's gold output rise by 34.84 per cent. The country's gold output reached 100 tons in 1995 and it doubled by 2003. The output has been boosted by discovery of five major mines last year, while traditional producers, including South Africa, the US and Australia have reduced their output in recent years.

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(Comtex Finance Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Apr 25, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) --By Alison Guerriere Ciaccio

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NEW YORK - As vast portions of China are yet to be explored, output of gold mine production is on the rise and could even surpass South Africa as the largest gold producer within four years, said a New York-based commodities consultant.

During the Dow Jones Metals Finance 2006 conference here, Jeffrey Christian, managing director of CPM Group, said Chinese gold mine production has risen 121% from 3.2 million ounces in 1990 to 7.1 million ounces in 2004.

"Gold refined production has risen even more sharply as Chinese base metals smelters process imported gold bearing concentrates as well as domestic mine output and scrapped jewelry and electronics," said Christian.
For the silver market, estimates of Chinese silver mine production were around 5.5 million ounces in 1990 while 2004 was around 83.6 million ounces. With production growing, Christian said China is on track to becoming the third largest silver producer at 84 million ounces.

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This year, China, the world’s third largest gold producer, will most probably surpass the U.S. and become second largest gold producer in the world, a senior official of one of the country’s largest mining companies said on Friday.
China is planning to boost its gold production by 8.3 percent to 260 tonnes in 2007 in conditions of the metal’s high prices on the global market. Last year the prices of gold reached an all time high in the past 25 years.

Domestic demand is expected to be in the level of this year’s production that is estimated at 260 tonnes, supported by the jewellery manufacturing sector, said Wu Junyun, deputy chief manager of the international trade department of the Chinese steel production group on the margins of a conference taking place in Shanghai.
Chinese gold production in the first four months of this year increased 14 percent to 77.75 tonnes, from a seven percent increase in 2006 when it reached record levels of 260 tonnes, data of the Chinese association of gold manufacturers say. The global association of gold producers assessed consumption in the country at the level of approximately 240 tonnes.
The Chinese group for the manufacture of steel, which is owned by the state and is one of the largest gold producers in China, produces 20 percent of the total produced amount of gold in China. Wu said that the company was interested in activities of extracting ores in neighbouring countries, including Myanmar and Vietnam, as well as in Russia and other countries of Central Asia.

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Preliminary gold production figures from China suggest that it has not yet quite overtaken South Africa as the World's largest gold producer, but that day is not far away.

The Vice Secretary General of the China Gold Association said Tuesday that the nation's 12.67% increase in gold production to 270.49 tonnes last year was a record, but still not enough to surpass the world's top gold producer South Africa.
The countries had been neck-to-neck in gold production for the second half of 2007, prompting GFMS to estimate that China had already become the world's largest gold producer. However, China's gold output was just short of South Africa's 272 tonnes, although South African gold production was impacted by declining ore grades, power cuts, accidents, and increased labor costs.

According to China's National Development and Reform Commission, China's gold production has increased 34.845 tonnes during the past five years. The commission said five major gold deposits were discovered in China last year, while other traditional large gold producers, including South Africa, the United States and Australia, have reduced their gold output in recent years.
Within the past year, junior miners China Gold Mines (LSE: CGM), Jinshan Gold Mines (TSX: JIN), a Robert Friedland company, and Australia's Sino Gold Mining (ASX: SGX) have all commenced commercial gold production in China.

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Takeda Pays $8.8 Billion for Biotechnology Firm

Japan's largest drug company, Takeda Pharmaceutical, agreed on Thursday to pay $8.8 billion in cash for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, one of the earliest American genomics companies, in a deal that spurred a general rise in biotechnology stocks.
The $25-a -- share deal represented a 53 percent premium to Millennium's closing price on Wednesday and set off speculation that other biotechnology companies might be acquired at high valuations, particularly by foreign companies that can take advantage of the weak dollar.

The Amex Biotechnology Index was up nearly 5 percent on Thursday. Millennium shares were up nearly 50 percent for the day, closing at $24.34, a gain of $7.99. ''Anyway you cut it, it's expensive based on today's numbers,'' Kurt von Emster, portfolio manager for the MPM BioEquities Fund, said of Takeda's purchase. He said the deal showed that biotechnology companies ''are valued more greatly by strategic buyers than they are by investors.''
The acquisition will give Takeda control of Millennium's cancer drug Velcade, which is used to treat multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. Sales of Velcade in the United States reached $83.5 million in the first quarter of 2008, up 42 percent from a year earlier, in part because of new data showing the drug's effectiveness.
Velcade is the only approved drug that Millennium sells. Johnson & Johnson has the marketing rights for the drug elsewhere in the world, including Japan.

Takeda, which is based in Osaka, has been aggressive in acquisitions and licensing of products, in part to prepare for the loss of patent protection in the next few years of Actos, its diabetes drug, and Prevacid, for ulcers.
It is making a particular thrust into the cancer area. On March 31, Takeda agreed to pay $50 million initially and up to $270 million later for the rights to an experimental ''vaccine'' to treat prostate cancer that is being developed by Cell Genesys.
In February, Takeda agreed to spend as much as $1.2 billion to acquire Amgen's Japanese unit and the rights to up to 13 of Amgen's experimental drugs for cancer and other diseases.
For Millennium, based in Cambridge, Mass., the acquisition brings to a close a wild ride that did not turn out as initially planned.

The company was started in 1993 to harness the emerging field of genomics to develop drugs. Millennium struck about 20 alliances with other drug companies, which collectively paid Millennium about $2 billion to provide leads for new drugs.
In 2000, the year the completion of the Human Genome Project was announced, biotech stocks soared on the expectation that genomics would revolutionize drug discovery. Millennium's stock rose to about $90 a share that year.

But Millennium's genomics effort yielded meager pickings. The genomics bubble popped and the stocks of Millennium and its competitors plunged. Millennium's shares have not been above $25, the price Takeda will pay, since around the end of 2001.
But Millennium used the money it gathered from investors and its industry alliances to buy other companies and become a commercial drug company.
It bought a company called LeukoSite mainly to obtain a different cancer drug that has since made it to market but which is sold by another company. All but overlooked, at first, was another LeukoSite drug in early clinical trials -- Velcade.

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Insiders’ Share Sales on Margin on the Rise

When executives own big stakes in the companies they run, investors can rest a little more easily at night, knowing those managers have the shareholders’ best interests at heart.
Except when maybe they don’t.
As the staggering destruction of wealth in the stock market has recently revealed, executives can sometimes appear to own shares in a company, but have actually pledged them as collateral for a loan. And if there is a sharp drop in the stock’s value, the executive may suddenly be forced to dump those shares, very likely adding to the stock’s downdraft.
And the other shareholders probably never saw it coming.

As it turns out, while corporate insiders must disclose their comings and goings in their companies’ shares, experts say there are no hard and fast rules requiring that the public be told when an executive has put a big block of shares at risk by borrowing against them.
Already this month, there have been about $1 billion in sales by company insiders dumping stock to meet margin calls, as lenders’ demands for the stock sales are known. According to Equilar, an executive compensation research firm in Redwood Shores, Calif., executives at three dozen companies have disclosed such sales since October.

One of the companies was Life Time Fitness, a chain of gyms, whose founder and chief executive, Bahram Akradi, had been the company’s largest shareholder. He owned slightly more than 10 percent of the shares outstanding, according to the company’s 2008 proxy statement. A year ago, the company’s shares were trading at about $65. And the stock was still around $40 within the last month, when Mr. Akradi’s stake would have been worth some $164 million.
What the company did not tell investors until about a week ago, when the stock was trading under $20, was that Mr. Akradi had pledged virtually all of his 4.1 million shares as collateral. On Oct. 10, the company disclosed he had sold 582,000 shares of his stock to cover margin loan obligations.

As part of its announcement, the company went on to alert investors that nearly all of Mr. Akradi’s stock was “subject to pledges under these loans.” In all so far, he has sold about 1.5 million shares, worth some $28 million at about $19 a share, according to Equilar. A company spokesman said Mr. Akradi used the money for his personal investing. The spokesman, Jason Thunstrom, said Mr. Akradi and other company officials would not comment further.
Under Securities and Exchange Commission rules, executives are typically required to disclose insider sales within two days of making them and indicate why they were sold, including as a result of a margin call. But experts say there are no rules requiring that the public be told ahead of time that an executive has pledged stock in a margin loan or how the borrowed money is being used. It might be a loan to buy more shares of the company’s stock — which would indicate a vote of confidence in the shares. Or it might be a loan to buy some other company’s stock or something else altogether — possibly a sign that the executive thinks there are better places to invest.

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Over the last 25 years or so, investors have come to take on faith the need for executives to own significant amounts of company stock, as a way to make sure the interests of the people running a company are aligned with those of the shareholders. But the ability to use the shares as collateral for a loan may change that dynamic, said Charles M. Elson, a corporate governance expert at the University of Delaware.

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UPDATE 1-Swiss Re CEO stepping down, Lippe to succeed

ZURICH, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The chief executive of reinsurer Swiss Re (RUKN.VX), Jacques Aigrain, is stepping down and deputy CEO Stefan Lippe has been appointed as successor, the world's second largest reinsurer said on Thursday.
"Having taken measures to reinforce the group's capital strength and further de-risk its investment portfolio, the interests of Swiss Re are now best served by a change in executive leadership," Aigrain said in a statement.
The company said Aigrain would support the "transition through Feb 18."

Aigrain has come under pressure after the group reported a net loss of around 1 billion Swiss francs for 2008 and had to turn to U.S. investor Warren Buffett to shore up its capital position. [ID:nL5713438]
Swiss Re shares have lost almost two thirds of their value since the beginning of this year. (Reporting by Sven Egenter; Editing by Anshuman Daga)

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Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on Feb 12

ZURICH, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The following are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks on Thursday:

SWISS RE (RUKN.VX)
The chief executive of reinsurer Swiss Re (RUKN.VX), Jacques Aigrain, is stepping down and deputy CEO Stefan Lippe has been appointed as successor, the world's second largest reinsurer said on Thursday.
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ABB(ABBN.VX)
Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.VX) posted an 88 percent fall in fourth-quarter net profit, hit by a one-off provision, and said the outlook for 2009 remained uncertain.
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UBS(UBSN.VX)

UBS, which considered a number of deals for its U.S. brokerage last year, is committed to keeping and growing the business by recruiting advisers as turmoil roils the industry, the Swiss bank's top U.S. brokerage executive told Reuters.
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STRAUMANN(STMN.S)
Swiss dental implant maker Straumann Holding AG (STMN.S) reported a 95 percent drop in net profit for 2008 as writedowns on investments and the economic slump hit the group's bottom line

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Reinsurance costs rise on storms, trading losses -broker

LONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The cost of reinsurance is rising after a year in which financial market turmoil and losses from natural disasters constrained market capacity, one of the world's largest reinsurance brokers said on Friday.
Willis Re said the important Jan. 1 renewals, when many major insurers renegotiate the cost and terms of the annual risk cover they buy from reinsurers, showed the decline in demand for reinsurance seen in recent years had begun to abate.
The reinsurance arm of Willis Group Holdings Ltd WSG.N, the world's third-largest insurance brokerage, said the likely cost and difficulty of future capital-raising had reduced reinsurers' risk appetite and helped push up pricing.

Insurers and reinsurers suffered heavy losses from natural disasters in 2008, while the plunging value of their investments in stocks and bonds have also eroded the capital they have on hand to underwrite risk.
"We have seen the first evidence of this at Jan. 1, 2009 renewals with meaningful price increases being taken in capital intensive lines of business, U.S. Nationwide Catastrophe business the most prominent example," Peter Hearn, chief executive officer of Willis Re, said in the report.
Reinsurance rates in that sector were up to 25 percent higher, Willis said. Rates for regional catastrophe cover in the United States excluding Florida were up to 20 percent higher.
Reinsurance prices had fallen in the previous two years, reflecting a lack of costly disasters.

Swiss Re (RUKN.VX), the world's second-largest reinsurer, said last month that insured losses soared to $50 billion for the industry in 2008, making it the second costliest year ever.
Natural catastrophes accounted for $43 billion of the insured losses, including $24 billion for Hurricanes Ike and Gustav which swept through the U.S. Gulf Coast in September. The costliest year to date for the industry was 2005, when Hurricane Katrina caused insured losses of $66 billion.
Hearn said "a fundamental reassessment of credit risk" following downgrades to financial institutions in 2008 had prompted ceding insurers to syndicate risk among reinsurers.
"With third party credit ratings no longer sacrosanct, insurers are seeking to use portfolio diversification to mitigate their counterparty exposure.

"One immediate impact of this is an increase in the syndication of risk, which in turn is affording opportunities for reinsurers to obtain shares on programs previously dominated by a limited number of large players," he said.
Willis predicted a rise in issuance of catastrophe bonds in 2009, reflecting severe constraints on post-event refinancing options and the departure from the reinsurance market of many leveraged investors.

About $2.7 billion of catastrophe bonds, which transfer risks from natural disasters to the financial markets, were issued in 2008 but the primary market has been frozen since U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in September.
Its bankruptcy filing triggered credit ratings cuts for four catastrophe bonds guaranteed by a unit of Lehman and highlighted concerns about how such bonds are collateralised and structured. (Reporting by Catherine Evans; Editing by David Cowell)

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There are many factors that affect the Forex trading.

When learning to trade on the Forex is it important to know and understand the various factors that cause the Forex to fluctuate from day to day. The foreign exchange market will change depending on the several economic factors that play a role in the movement of currency.

When looking at the Forex, economic factors and indicators are released by the government or by private organizations that can look in depth at economic performances. The economic performances from any country can be analysis by these indicators. The economic reports measure a country’s economic health, in addition to government policies and current events.
Most of the time, a reputable broker can look at economic indicators and can give advice on which trades will be the best. Reports on these indicators are released at scheduled times and can tell if a certain country is experiencing improvement in the economy or if it is on the decline. When the prices fluctuate, a great deal one way or the other, the price can be affected.
One of the top economic indicators used when analyzing the Forex is current events and the state of the economy in any given nation. Factors such as unemployment numbers, housing statistics and the current state of a country’s government can all affect the changes in the Forex. When a country is feeling good about the current state of affairs in their country, the prices of the Forex will reflect this. When a nation experiences political unrest, large amounts of unemployed workers and inflation, the rate of the currency will also be reflected. Sometimes, this indicator tends to be overlooked, but can serve as an important gauge in the fluctuations of the Forex.

Another economic indicator that is used when looking at the foreign exchange market is the gross domestic product, also called the GDP. This is normally considered the widest and broadest measure of the economy in a country. The gross domestic product represents the total market value of all goods and services that are normally produced within any given country. This is usually measured in the time frame of a year, and not in weeks or months. Using a larger time period gives good statistics on the products and services that are produced in the country. This indicator is not used alone when forecasting the Forex. Usually the gross domestic product is considered a lagging indicator, meaning that is a measurable factor that changes after the economy has already began to follow a certain trend.

The third economic factor that is often used in analyzing the Forex is the retail sales reports. This is the total receipt of all retail stores in any country. Usually, this measurement is not every single retail sale, but is a sample of diverse retail stores throughout the country. This is considered a very reliable and important economic indicator because of the consumer spending patterns that are expected throughout the year. This factor is usually more important that lagging indicators and give a clear picture of the state of the economy in any country.
The industrial production report is another reliable economic indicator in the foreign exchange market. This shows the fluctuation in productions in industries such as factories, minds, and utilities. The report looks at what is actually produced in relation to what the production capacity can be over a period of time. When a country is producing at a maximum capacity in this way, it can positively affect the Forex and is considered ideal conditions for traders.

The last important economic factor in analyzing the Forex is the consumer price index or the CPI. The consumer price index is the measure of the change in the prices of consumer goods in 200 categories. This report can tell whether or not a country is making or losing money on their products and services. The exports that a country has are very important when looking at this indicator because the amount of exports can reflect a currency’s weakness or its strength.
The Forex is affected by many factors. These factors usually follow a certain trend so it is important to understand how each factor works in forecasting the Forex. Some are good indicators alone while others should be used together for accurate Forex predications.


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A Bar Chart or what others may call as a bar graph is a type of chart that has rectangular bars with relative lengths showing the value which it is representing. It acts as a paving way for people to view complicated information in a more simple and helpful aspect. This type of chart is being used to evaluate two or more values. Each bar is either horizontally or vertically oriented. Occasionally, a graphic which is quite stretched is used as a replacement of a solid bar. If you are not familiar with how this thing works, you might get yourself in a more complicated situation. Here are few steps which might help you for deeper understanding.

First of all, locate the X axis. It will be the point or label that would classify the information at the bottom of each bar, like the time frame, percentages or the names of what is being compared, such as months and others and after that look at the Y axis. On the other hand, this point is located at the left side of the bar graph and at the same time shows the value of what is being compared, such as how many objects or items were sold in a month or the comparison of each item from others.

Take a deeper depth in understanding the legend of the bar chart. These are small boxes of information located at the side of the bars. This will imply what the individual bars are trying to represent. Study the labels that classify each bar in a bar chart. The legend is not always shown in every graph, as the Y and X axis show the same information as well. Then find the correlating information on the bar graph. Typically, each bar on a forex bar chart will have a different color, which easily allows you to locate the information as outlined in the legend. That each bar in a bar graph may point out how much of a thing or what proportion of that thing is being referred.
Lastly try to have comparisons on the bars. By knowing and understanding what each colors mean, you can easily read the story of any bar graph. Evaluate the differences between the bars for these things will tell you the comparative numbers of items per given time frame.
The very common or usual chart being used which has bars is the currency chart. Currency chart represents currency prices that form vertical bars in a day and each bar also have the 4 hooks known as OCHL or the opening, closing, high and low rates of transactions at a certain time interval.

This type of chart is a graphic illustration of price action using a vertical bar which connects the peak price to the lowest price during a certain period of time. Bar Charts can be constructed for any time period in which prices are deemed to be available. Usually, the most common time interval for bar chart is hourly chart. On the other hand, although the availability of real time prices is wide, it is ordinary to use lesser time interval like 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minute.

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Bar charts are one of the two most popular trading charts, because of the range of trading information that they represent, and their ease of reading and interpretation.
Bar charts consist of an opening foot, a vertical line, and a closing foot. Each bar includes the open, high, low, and close, of the timeframe, and also shows the direction (upward or downward), and the range of the timeframe.

Bar charts are read and interpreted during trading as follows

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A high ranking official of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) had been taken away by the central discipline agencies for investigation, according to reports on website www.caijing.com.cn on Wednesday.
Xu Mangang, director of the Supervision and Inspection Department of the SAFE, began to "take a leave" about two weeks ago, but had not returned to office, according to the website.
When contacted by Xinhua on Thursday, the information office of SAFE said "It did not know anything about the case at all."

Xu, born in 1966, has served as an arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission since 1996.
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BEIJING -- A high ranking official of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) had been taken away for investigation by the central discipline agencies, according to reports on website www.caijing.com.cn on Wednesday.
Xu Mangang, director of the Supervision and Inspection Department of the SAFE, began to "take a leave" about two weeks ago, but had not returned to office, according to the website.
When contacted by Xinhua on Thursday, the information office of SAFE said "It did not know anything about the case at all."

Xu, born in 1966, has served as an arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission since 1996.

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