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Nokia profit drops 69pc in fourth quarter
AP, Helsinki, Finland
The world's top mobile phone maker, Nokia Corp., on Thursday said its profits fell 69 percent in the fourth quar ter as the economic downturn slowed handset sales.
Net profit was euro576 million (US$743.62 million), down from euro 1.84 billion in the same period in 2007.
Sales fell 19.5 percent to euro!2.7 billion, from euro 15.8 billion.
The results came in below expectations, sending Nokia shares down more than 5 percent in 1 lelsinki to euro9.66 ($12.47)
The Finnish company gave a bleak outlook for the industry, saying it expects global mobile device volumes to drop 10 percent in 2009 compared to last year.
Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said the industry has been hit by "weaker consumer confidence, unprecedented currency volatility and credit tightness."
'We are taking action to reduce overall costs and to preserve our strong capital structure. This is clearly our top priority in the current economic environment," Kallasvuo said.
Nokia said its share of the handset market fell to 37 percent, down from 38 percent in the previous quarter and 40 percent in die fourth quarter of2007.
Sony expects $2.9b operating loss
AFP, Tbkyo
Sony on Thursday forecast a much bigger dian expected operating loss of 2.9 billion dollars, the first in 14 years, as the global economic crisis saps demand for cameras, televisions and other goods.
The grim forecast underscored the depth of the problems facing the electronics industry as consumers cut spending amid a wave of global job cuts.
The iconic Japanese company said it expects an operating loss of 260 billion yen for the current financial year to March, a dramatic reversal from an earlier goal of a 200-billion-yen profit.
The electronics giant, which is slashing thousands of jobs and axing plants, now sees a net loss of 150 billion yen for the current year, compared with an earlier projection fora 150-billion-yen profit.
Sony blamed the worsening business environment, the stronger yen, weak financial markets and restructuring costs for the bleak oudook.
Under its first foreign boss, Howard Stringer, a Welsh-born US citizen, Sony has shed non-core assets and slashed thousands of jobs in recent years. Last month it announced 16,000 more job cuts along with factory closures.
Crisis-struck KBC secures fresh state capital
AFP, Brussels
Belgian regional authorities moved on Thursday to bail out embattled bank KBC, providing up to 3.5 billion euros (4.6 billion dollars) after its shares collapsed in a crisis of investor confidence.
The bank, which had already received an infusion of state cash in October, said that authorities in the northern Flanders region had agreed to inject 2.0 billion euros in fresh capital.
They also extended a facility for a further 1.5 billion euros if deemed necessary.
"The financial position of the group remains solid after we obtained the commitment ... to an additional non-dilutive capital-strengthening transaction," said chief executive Andre Bergen in a statement.
KBC had to resort to taking state cash after writing down the value of its portfolio of toxic collateralised debt obligations, which have ravaged the balance sheets of many a bank in the recent financial crisis.
The bank said it booked writedowns on the portfolio for the whole of 2008 of 4.0 billion euros, leading to an estimated full year lossof 2.5 billion euros,.
Deutsche Post ex-head on trial over tax scandal
AFP, Bochum, Germany
The ex-head of Germany's Deutsche Post faced court on Thursday over an international tax evasion scandal that fuelled public anger about "fat-cat" excesses in Europe's biggest economy.
Klaus Zumwinkel was the highest profile head to roll last February when his name appeared on a list bought by the German secret services from a whistleblower at a bank in the tiny Alpine principality of Liechtenstein.
The DVD for which Germany reportedly paid 4.5 million euros (5.9 million dollars) also included the names of hundreds of German business executives, sports stars and entertainers who had allegedly been dodging the taxman.
Together, they were suspected of stashing some four billion euros away from the authorities.
This prompted countries around the world to launch their own investigations as well as heavy international criticism of Liechtenstein and other tax havens for their traditions of banking secrecy.