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Times Online November 5, 2008

BUSINESS BULLETIN

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Today's top stories

CBI: jobs in peril as banks cut lending

Warning came amid tensions over lending and their failure to supply enough credit to small businesses and pass on rate cuts

'RBS faces its first full-year loss'

Stephen Hester, Royal Bank of Scotland's new chief executive, said he would take bank back to its retail and commercial roots

Crunch may hit M&S's celebrity lineup

Britain's biggest retailer of clothing said that it is to cut its £145m marketing budget by 20% in 2009 to save money

BHP bid for Rio under regulatory attack

European Commission has given BHP a list of objections which they will have to address these before takeover can be approved
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Debt refinancing is the next crisis

Question for many companies is not how current trading is going but how long they have got before debt needs to be refinanced
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Tempus: Punch Taverns ... Croda ... Umeco

Punch Taverns say they can meet their debt obligations ... Croda International sales above forecast ... Umeco shares halve

Homebase job cuts ... Skanska up ... Wetherspoon rises

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