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Deal of the day: Shares in Renew Holdings rose 3p to 68p, after the specialist engineer secured a new installation framework contract for work at Sellafield worth 26 million over the next four years. Details of the work that it will carry out are classified but, essentially, it will help out in sensitive areas of the site. Arbuthnot, which has a target price of 112p, advised Buy. Tiddler to watch: Shares in Porvair rose by 31/4p to 1031/4p, after the filtration specialist said that full year results would beat its expectations, driven by strong sales at its higher-margin metal filtration division. Peel Hunt likes the company, which serves aviation, energy and environment technology businesses. It advised Buy and forecast full year pretax profits of 4.2 million. Nuffield set to buy Greens health clubs: Nuffield Health, the hospital and healthcare charity that swallowed the Cannons fitness club chain four years ago, is in advanced talks to acquire Greens Health & Fitness, The Times has learnt. Greens, which has 15 clubs from Glasgow to Croydon with a total of about 65,000 members, is owned by De Vere Group but has long been regarded as a poor fit with the companys hotels and conference venues and the business has effectively been up for grabs for the past six or seven years. JCB uses state funds to drive expansion: JCB is to create 350 jobs, expanding its engine-making facilities in the Midlands and Wales after securing a government grant. The digger company is to invest 31 million designing and manufacturing the next generation of heavy duty diesel engines at its JCB Power Systems centre at Foston in Derbyshire. Jobs will be created later at its factories in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and at Wrexham. Mega funds keen to build Scotlands future: The prospect of a high-speed rail link between Glasgow and London has increased significantly after foreign pension and sovereign wealth funds, as far afield as Canada and Singapore, expressed interest in investing in Scottish infrastructure projects. Glasgow entrepreneur John McGlynn, who has built up a multi-million business in car parks, business parks and self-storage, told the Times that overseas pension funds are interested in the Scottish end of the line. Non-doms are hit harder: The Government has pressed ahead with a plan to increase its annual levy on wealthy non-domiciled foreigners, sparking concerns it could lead to an exodus of talent overseas. The fee paid each year by so-called non-doms who have been resident in Britain for at least 12 years will rise from 30,000 to 50,000, the Treasury said. Publicis makes India a priority in building its future business: The Brics are set to drive growth for the $464 billion global advertising market next year, according to Publicis, the worlds third-biggest advertising group. Brazil, Russia, India and China will account for 33% of global advertising expenditure growth over the next three years, the French company, which owns Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi, said. Blood diamonds on sale for 103 million as China and Mugabe benefit from split: A company jointly owned by China and Zimbabwe has started selling diamonds from the notorious Marange field, the first such auction since the international ban on President Mugabes blood diamonds was lifted. Gems worth $160 million (103 million) were on sale in a secure room of the state-owned Zimbabwe Minerals Marketing Corporation in Harare. Miners line up for gold rush in the mountains of Afghanistan: Invaders since Alexander the Great have dreamt of exploiting its mineral wealth. Now Afghanistan is seeking foreign investors to help it to tap rich deposits of gold and copper. Wahidullah Shahrani told The Times that for the first time the Afghan Government has invited bids to develop goldmines in the provinces of Badakhshan and Ghazni and to extract copper in the regions of Herat and Sar-i-Pul, and Balkh. Chote made to defend OBRs forecasts: Head of Office for Budget Responsibility tells MPs that he was not informed about Chancellors national infrastructure plan. The Treasury failed to inform its own fiscal watchdog in advance about a key plank of the Autumn Statement, according to the Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, Robert Chote. Cameron threatens to block Euro rescue deal: David Cameron threatened to veto a new European Union treaty to help solve the Eurozone debt crisis unless it safeguards the City of London. The Prime Minister raised the stakes over the Franco-German plan to rescue the single currency after it emerged that the proposed treaty is likely to cover all 27 EU members, including the U.K. Corzine to face Congress on MF Global: Regulators and prosecutors examining the failure of MF Global will discover if Jon Corzine, its former Chief Executive, plans to answer public questions about the collapse of the brokerage firm. Mr Corzine is preparing for a Congressional hearing on the firms failure, amid new allegations that he repeatedly ignored the warnings of his Chief Risk Officer about the dangers of his gamble on Eurozone debt. Wolseley see profits surge: Wolseley posted a 16% rise in first quarter trading profit and warned it will remain vigilant on costs due to uncertainty over the outlook. The FTSE 100 Company, which operates the Plumb Center and Ferguson chains in Britain and the U.S., said underlying operating profit rose 16% to 185 million in the three months to end-October, helped by strong growth across its U.S. businesses. Expectations at Brulines fall flat: Brulines, which makes monitoring equipment that allows Pub Owners to track the volumes and quality of beer dispensed by tenants, saw a first half drop in pretax profit and turnover, with results below management expectations. In the six months to 30 September, turnover dropped 3.9% to 11.79 million, largely due to pub closures and disposals. New Mouchel Chairman is turnaround specialist: Mouchel has appointed a turnround specialist as Chairman to try to secure the future of the outsourcing group, which was rescued last week from the brink of bankruptcy. David Shearer, currently the Deputy Chairman at New Dawn Investment Trust and a Non-Executive Director at several other companies, will replace the Interim Chairman Sir Michael Lyons in February. Innovation Group seeks acquisitions: Acquisitions will be a top priority for Innovation Group next year, as the insurance software and Services Company strengthens its position in core markets, its Chief Executive said on Tuesday. The software group will be on the look-out for companies to help it expand in the U.K., Germany and Australia, where it sees growth opportunities, according to Andrew Roberts, Chief Executive. It also plans to expand into emerging markets such as India and Brazil, with a strategy focusing on west first, then east, he adds. Insurance venture to take on pension liabilities: David Norgrove is launching a specialist insurance vehicle to take over the toxic industry of the U.K.s defined benefit pension schemes. Long Acre Life believes it can offer companies a lower-cost way to offload their pension liabilities than other insurers, but only if those companies also take an equity stake in the new venture, enabling them to share in its profits over time. Electra to spend 400 million war chest: Electra Private Equity is hoping to use its more than 400 million war chest to snap up bargains in the debt, buy-out and private equity fund space amid a predicted capital shortage triggered by the Eurozone crisis. The listed private equity group, which hit the headlines more than a decade ago when it fought off a 1.3 billion hostile bid from rival 3i Group, aims to invest next year at a time when many competitors will still be nursing their wounds from the crisis years. Mobile payment: Verizon must take care: Visa processed a total of $5.8tn in payments in the past year; MasterCard had $3.1tn. Even little newcomer PayPal handles well over $100 billion a year in transactions. Wireless network operators, internet companies and phone manufacturers look at numbers of that magnitude and get excited. If the mobile phone replaces credit or debit cards as the default payment tool for even a small proportion of consumers, and the companies that make this happen capture even a sliver of the value of those transactions, or add just a bit of value to them, the resulting profits will be large indeed. The idea is not to replace existing payment networks such as Visas, but to use smartphones on top of those networks, combining payments with coupons, Groupon -style daily deals, and other services. AT&T, T-Mobile U.S.A and Verizon have formed a U.S. mobile payments joint venture called Isis. Payment start-up Square raised $100 million in funding this summer. Google has rolled out its Wallet application on Sprints network. Triple A Eurozone: EFSF looks doomed: The European Financial Stability Facilitys appeal to investors lay in its triple A status, backed by the creditworthiness of Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland and Austria. But with the future of the Eurozone in doubt, the idea that any of its strongest members is still a top-notch credit must be fanciful. If the Eurozones core loses its triple A status which looks likely if there is not significant progress at this weekends summit the blocs finances could become unsustainable. The timing of the downgrading threat, by Standard & Poors, looks deliberate. The European Union is having yet another summit to save the Euro at the weekend. This time Germany and France claim to have agreed a deal that will convince investors that they are getting to grips with the debt crisis. S&Ps move essentially holds them to that. Either way, the EFSF looks doomed. Its creditworthiness was already diminishing in investors eyes: the yield on its 10-year bonds has risen by a percentage point since late September, to 3.63% on Tuesday. That is the same as the yield at which the bonds were sold in June, so the move is not yet that dramatic. U.S. high-speed rail: off track: High-speed rail projects are the sort of expensive, difficult and long-term investments that require politicians to think big. Sadly, the first such project, which would run through California, could be derailed by small-minded considerations. Yes, it is expensive and time-consuming $65 billion in dollars with a final completion date of 2033 and it is easy to ridicule with the first stretch slated for the rural Central Valley. Not helping matters is the limited and meagre example of what is dubbed high-speed rail in the U.S. the spotty Acela trains between Boston, New York and Washington. Though they can reach 150 miles per hour for a brief stretch 10mph below the unofficial high-speed threshold in Europe or Asia the average pace between New York and its city neighbours is less than half as much. Rate curbs would trigger loan shark feeding frenzy: Loan sharking can be lucrative, judging from a visit the Financial Times once paid to the home of an exponent up north. It had seven bedrooms, turrets, stables and an indoor pool. The Owner was making about 1 million ($1.6 million) a year lending to the skint and easily threatened. The unlicensed lenders top rate of interest was about 2,500% which is less than the annual percentage rates of some payday loan companies, businesses that advance small sums against the salaries of the low-waged. Advances grew 700 million to 1.9 billion last year, according to one estimate. The growth of payday lenders reflects tough economic conditions and the withdrawal of credit to a proportion of poor Britons by our incredible shrinking Banks . Regulators appear to be asleep at the wheel. Oddly, consumer credit in the U.K. is overseen by the Office of Fair Trading. A review of high-cost credit by the competition watchdog last year was sprinkled with fine phrases such as codes of practice. If the Small Cap fits: Harrumphs are the time-honoured greeting that the City old guard extends to exotic newcomers. One such tremor could occur when index company FTSE International decides whether to include two big Russian businesses in the flagship FTSE 100. Steel group Evraz would trigger the loudest muttering. It is part-owned by colourful oligarch Roman Abramovich and has reincorporated in the U.K., circumventing rules requiring foreign FTSE index constituents to have a 50% free float. The second candidate, gold and silver producer Polymetal, at least has sufficient tradable shares. There is a third foreign entrant, CRH. But it is hard to feel indignant about an Irish building materials business, unless, perhaps, you are allergic to cement. So which proud British businesses might be jettisoned to accommodate the parvenues? The answer hardly bolsters the cause of index nationalism. Investec and Lonmin , businesses focused on Africa, and Inmarsat, a pan-galactic satellite business, could be demoted to the FTSE 250. Businesses likely to be ejected from that index include Thomas Cook, Pace and Premier Foods. Apple under investigation by EC for e-book price fixing: Apple and five major book publishers are under investigation by the European Commission (EC) amid allegations they have been colluding to fix the price of e-books. Penguin, Harper Collins, Hachette Livre, Simon & Schuster and Holzbrink, the German parent of Macmillan, may have been engaging in illegal and anti-competitive practices designed to block potential competitors, the EC said as it opened the investigation. Bob Dudley says high oil prices threaten economic recovery: A combination of low supply and high prices could particularly damage the U.S. and have a knock-on effect on the rest of the world, threatening the already fragile economic recovery, he said. Mr Dudley predicted the price of Brent crude would average between $90 to $100 a barrel next year, while some industry analysts have forecast that it could rise even higher. Lehman Brothers set to exit bankruptcy: U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck, who has handled the case since Lehman filed in September 2008, approved a plan that has secured the backing of all Lehmans creditors. The approval means that Lehman can now begin paying creditors some of the $23 billion (15 billion) in cash it has raised, as well as selling remaining assets to raise more cash. Glencore Chief Windfall brings tax cuts for Swiss neighbours: With austerity tightening its clutches on Europe, hard-pressed citizens can take comfort that the gravy train is still running - through one Swiss town, at least. Rueschlikon, home to Glencores Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg, is cutting taxes after enjoying a huge windfall in the wake of the Swiss commodity groups flotation earlier this year. Industry stymied by energy firms demands for upfront payments: The governments hopes of rebuilding the economy with a March of the makers risks being derailed by energy companies that are demanding huge upfront payments to power new factories. Soaring energy prices, which are already hitting homeowners, are also forcing manufacturers to shut down plants or relocate their factories to other countries. Kraft Chief wastes no time axing 200 jobs at Cadbury: Kraft Boss Irene Rosenfeld finally confirmed her critics worst fears by laying off up to 200 jobs at Cadburys Bournville factory in Birmingham. The controversial processed cheese Boss has wasted little time in swinging the axe at the 186-year-old chocolate maker. Americas second highest-paid woman had pledged not to make any plant closures or compulsory redundancies until March 2012 in the wake of her bitter 11.7 billion battle for the Dairy Milk maker. Treasury to force Banks to reveal details of bonus deals: Banks will be forced to reveal details of the money-spinning bonus deals enjoyed by top staff if the government presses ahead with proposals that would also include foreign lenders with U.K. offices. The Treasury wants any U.K. bank with assets of more than 50 billion likely to include 15 lenders to reveal the pay of their eight highest-paid executives who are not board members. It said the consultation due to close on Valentines Day next year was designed to help tackle unacceptable bank bonuses. Bank boosts cash to prevent credit freeze: The Bank of England moved to offer more cash to commercial Banks in the face of exceptional duresses in the financial system. Although the Bank said there were no signs commercial institutions were struggling to borrow pounds, it was putting in place a new facility designed to reduce the risk to the financial system should there be a freeze in the flow of sterling around the market. Veolia U.K. asset sale: French water and waste management giant Veolia is to sell its regulated U.K. water companies as part of a 5 billion (4.3 billion) disposal programme. The sweeping restructuring to revive its fortunes after recent profit warnings will see Veolia offload its central, South-east and East businesses, which serve a combined population of more than three million people across counties including Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and generate turnover of 274 million. Gift-wrap firm is celebrating cracking sales: Giftwrap, cracker and cards designer International Greetings said its value-for-money products had helped it defy the downturn to post sparkling half year figures. Sales of goods priced 1 to 2 at discount shops and supermarkets in 20 nations had helped profits soar 50% to 3.2 million on sales up 6% to 110.3 million. Scottish car sales figures bucking downward trend: Car sales in Scotland are bucking a downward trend seen elsewhere in the U.K., according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Sales north of the Border were up 1.9% in November with more than 11,000 vehicles sold, the SMMT told The Herald. Sales to private buyers in the U.K. as a whole fell sharply in November, providing more evidence of the squeeze on purchasing power faced by consumers. EU drops category plans for essential farm and forestry all-terrain vehicles: The European Parliaments Internal Market Committee has decided to drop proposals which would have put all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), used for essential farm and forestry work, and Dual-Use quadricycles, used as road recreational vehicles, into the same category. Scottish business losing its gloss as optimism plummets: Optimism among Scottish businesses has collapsed in the past quarter, sending them to the bottom of the latest U.K. confidence table. Three months ago Scotland topped the U.K. Business Confidence Monitor with a robust +17.6 rating, but factors such as sluggish economic growth and falling demand have pushed that figure down to -14.1. Retailers ease pressure on hard-up consumers by slashing store prices: Heavy discounting and supermarket price wars have helped push the price of goods in the shops to their lowest levels in a year as retailers shoulder high energy and distribution costs, research shows. The British Retail Consortium claims its members are helping to reduce the burden on hard-up households as they slash prices to get shoppers through their doors. Nolan TV ads spur growth in Christmas hamper sales: A television advertising campaign featuring former Loose Women presenter Coleen Nolan helped the U.K.s biggest gift voucher firm sell more Christmas savings schemes this year. Park Group, which sells vouchers, hampers and other gift products on a 45-week pre-paid instalment plan in time for Christmas, said orders were up 5% this year, while customer numbers were more than 1% higher at 415,000 and average order value was up 4% at 417. NBNKs opening move for bank bid: NBNK, one of the bidders for 600-plus Lloyds branches, has said it will allow managers to choose their opening hours as part of a drive for local decision making in the sector. The takeover vehicle is one of the front-runners in the auction of 632 outlets being sold by Lloyds Banking Group in order to meet European competition rules. Nessco adds revenues and jobs: Key contract wins in Brazil, the Middle East and the North Sea have helped double revenues and created jobs at an Aberdeenshire company that specialises in oil and gas sector communications. Nessco Group said it was expected to double its turnover this year to 34 million following a string of global contracts. Melrose ends U.S. link as it sells Texan gas field to Faulconer: Oil and gas explorer Melrose Resources has sold the last of its U.S.-based assets in a $5.8 million (3.7 million) deal. The Edinburgh-based group said it had completed the sale of a gas field in south-east Texas to Faulconer Resources. The price paid exceeded book value, it noted. Consumer woes fail to rob Rox of its sparkle: Scottish jewellery firm Rox is on track to hit 10 million of turnover this year despite the consumer squeeze as sales at its re-vamped flagship store in Glasgow have rocketed 65%. The business, which was set up in 2002 by Kyron Keogh and Grant Mitchell, expects revenue to grow 11% during the current financial year as shoppers continue to invest in its high fashion products. Market share dips despite Tesco s cuts: Tesco has lost market share to its rivals after launching a 500 million price-cutting campaign in October, industry figures revealed. Kantar Worldpanel said the supermarket giant had slipped from 30.7% a year ago to 30.5% while its 3.8% growth rate fell behind rivals, according to data for the 12 weeks to 27 November. Armour pierced by turn to the red: Consumer electronics group Armour swung to a full year pretax loss in the year to 31 August of 3.5 million, compared with a 947,000 profit the previous year, results revealed. The firm, which produces hi-fi, home cinema and home entertainment systems under a range of brands, said weak consumer confidence in the U.K. made the year the most challenging experienced by the group but it expects an improved performance in 2012. Merger for all of Trinity Mirrors Scots titles: The Daily Record and Sunday Mail have merged with Scottish and Universal Newspapers to combine all of Trinity Mirrors titles north of the Border into one division. Mark Hollinshead, Managing Director, announced the creation of Media Scotland and a reshuffle of senior management which has seen the departure of the Record and Mail editor-in-chief Bruce Waddell.

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