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Lloyds TSB's first-half accumulation fell 70 per cent as bazaar agitation hit the basal band and the coffer warned of ascent mortgage bad debts.

Pre-tax accumulation fell to £599m because of £585m of writedowns from the acclaim crisis and £794m of abrogating animation at its allowance business as banal markets fell. Analysts had accepted accumulation of £773m, according to a Reuters poll. Britain's better coffer for claimed accepted accounts was the better faller in the FTSE 100 index, bottomward 4.7 per cent. It was the aboriginal coffer to column acting after-effects in a advertisement division set to accommodate austere account for investors.

Lloyds insisted that its basal business was able and that the aggregate of bazaar animation and writedowns would not be repeated. Basal profit, stripping out volatility, write-downs and a US acknowledged charge, rose 11 per cent to 2.2bn. Basal acquirement advance of 9 per cent outstripped amount advance of 5 per cent.

Lloyds had alternate to favour with investors afterwards alienated boundless acknowledgment to alien assets. But apropos are accretion about its basic position and acknowledgment to the slowing UK econ ... Read more »

The Federal Reserve has continued its emergency abutment to Wall Street investment banks for a added six months – a move that helped forward stocks initially college but aswell accent how the axial coffer fears the acclaim crisis in banking markets could yet be far from over.

In the a lot of important of a amalgamation of measures, balance firms will be able to use the Primary Dealer Acclaim Ability (PCDF), the appropriate borrowing window set up for them afterwards the Bear Stearns collapse in March, until 30 January next year. The ability was originally appointed to endure until mid-September. It will now alone be removed if "markets are no best abnormal and exigent," in the words of the axial bank.

Another ability – the Term Limits Balance Lending ability acceptance investment firms to briefly bandy chancy mortgage-backed investments for Treasury balance – is aswell getting continued until 30 January.

Commercial banks will aswell be able to borrow from a $150bn ability for best periods, by behest on 84-day banknote loans.

Next's arch executive, Simon Wolfson, has abject any achievement that trading altitude in the accouterment area had hit the bottom, as the appearance behemothic acquaint better-than-expected second-quarter results.

For the 13 weeks to 26 July, retail like-for-like sales fell 2.4 per cent at Next, which was bigger than a lot of City analysts expected. However, Mr Wolfson said: "I anticipate the bread-and-butter risks are on the downside for the next six months. Our barter accept decidedly beneath to absorb on clothing."

Asked if the retail area was in recession, he said: "Yes, absolutely on a like-for-like basis." Next said the 6 per cent abatement in retail like-for-like sales for the aboriginal bisected of 2008 was "more apocalyptic of the basal trends", accustomed the abnormal acclimate endure year. "We advancing boxy times and they accept been as boxy as we expected," said Mr Wolfson.

The Citi analyst Richard Edwards said: "The stronger-than-expected top band beyond the additional division suggests that Next may accept best up some bazaar allotment advanced of the auction period. With a breakable macro environment, we abhorrence the affliction is still to ... Read more »

Cadbury, the bonbon group, has appear that it is to conduct a analysis of its all-around amount base, as it acquaint a 28 per cent acceleration in first-half pre-tax accumulation and able-bodied sales of Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Trident sugarless chewing gum and the new Creme Egg Twisted Bar.

"Dealing with the macro ambiance is scary. We are ambidextrous with amber prices up 30 per cent to 40 per cent and oil up 50 per cent from a year ago," said Todd Stitzer, Cadbury's arch executive. He beneath to aphorism out added job losses or branch closures afterward the antecedent cut aback it apparent in June 2007.

Cadbury, which spun off its Dr Pepper Snapple drinks business in May, said it has put its actual Australian drinks business beneath review, although it said this action will yield months to complete. Rob Mann, a customer analyst at Collins Stewart, said: "The analysis into the buying of the final cooler operation in Australia shows already and for all there are to be no angelic cows."

The accumulation said it had already delivered acceptable allowances from its Vision into Actioncost-reduction programme, which it apparent in June 2007, such as through abbrev ... Read more »

Liverpool Victoria, the UK's better affable society, was fined £840,000 and ordered to pay millions of pounds in advantage bygone for breaching regulations during its auction of about 15,000 transaction aegis allowance behavior amid 2005 and 2007.

The aggregation awash the behavior to barter who took out claimed loans, automatically abacus the amount to the accommodation even if barter did not ask for it. In the accident that barter noticed and asked for it to be removed, harder auction approach were acclimated to try and get them to abide paying.

The fine, by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), would accept been some £1.2m if the aggregation had not agreed to co-operate at an aboriginal stage. However, the absolute bill will run into millions afterwards the FSA ordered it to anon atone all barter for any absorption becoming from the PPI premiums. Liverpool Victoria, which afresh rebranded beneath the name LV=, may aswell accept to balance some barter all of their premiums.

The FSA said some 14,500 barter were affected, with the boilerplate action costing about £1,600 including absorption – earning the aggregation added than £23m of revenue.

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Aviva has offered £1bn to buy out 1.1 actor policyholders in two of its funds, bringing to an end a two-year action with the policyholders' advocate, Clare Spottiswoode.

Policyholders of the two Norwich Union with-profits funds will get at atomic £400 in banknote and an boilerplate transaction of £1,000 to abandon their rights to a approaching re-attribution of basic in the funds. The payout comes from the alleged affiliated acreage – armamentarium assets that are not bare to accommodated obligations to customers.

After able-bodied over 100 affairs with Ms Spottiswoode and with the costs of the activity mounting, Aviva had threatened added than already to airing abroad from negotiations. The talks teetered on the border of abortion until the accomplished two weeks if advance was made.

The accord will breach the £2.1bn surplus in the armamentarium 48:52 in favour of shareholders. But including a £2.3bn non-cash appropriate administration appear in February, the breach is 69:31 in policyholders' favour. Of the acceptable policyholders, about 700,000 will get amid £400 and £1,000 with a added 220,000 accepting £1,000 to £3,500.

Andrew Moss, Aviva's arch ... Read more »

The House of Lords has backed the Serious Fraud Office's accommodation to bead its analysis into the £43bn accoutrements accord amid BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia, adage the analysis could accept put British lives at risk.

The 5 law lords absolutely chaotic a acumen by the High Court in April, which said the babysitter had acted "unlawfully" in awkward its analysis into declared bribery and bribery over the Al-Yamamah deals, in which BAE supplied Tornado and Hawk fighter jets to the Saudis in 1985.

The cardinal agency that the SFO acted accurately if it alone the case over fears that the Saudis would abjure co-operation over agitation intelligence.

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, the chief associate on the panel, said: "The director's accommodation was one he was accurately advantaged to make. It may absolutely be doubted whether a amenable accommodation maker could, on the facts afore the director, accept absitively otherwise." He added that the accommodation was "courageous". Lord Roger, addition associate authoritative over the SFO's appeal, added: "The administrator assured that he had no option... British lives would be put at risk."

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HSBC will today become the latest in a alternation of ample mortgage lenders to trim the amount of its home loans, abbreviation its absorption ante by up to 0.31 allotment points. In accession to acid the amount of its fixed-rate deals � its two-year artefact will abatement from 6.74 per cent to 6.43 per cent a year � HSBC said it would aswell abate some of the fees it accuse for the loans.

The bank, which has been one of the a lot of advancing players in the mortgage market, is acid prices in acknowledgment to agnate reductions by lenders including Nationwide, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Abbey and Royal Coffer of Scotland.

Bank of Ireland, a abate amateur in the market, aswell appear amount cuts yesterday. Mortgage experts said the cuts appropriate some course was abiding to the bazaar afterward a six-month aeon in which abounding lenders approved to abate the amount of loans on their books as allotment in the institutional money markets has broiled up. The boilerplate amount of fixed-rate mortgages accomplished a 10-year top endure month.

"It is auspicious that, at continued last, lenders are responding to the abatement in broad borrowing costs and casual ... Read more »

Northern Rock will afford about 800 agents through compulsatory redundancies to accomplish a absolute of 2,000 job cuts by 2011, the nationalised coffer said.

The lender said it had consulted the Unite abutment and added agent groups about the cuts, which will aswell cover 500 autonomous redundancies and accustomed agents turnover. Workers are getting abreast which jobs are at risk.

The compulsatory cuts will be bound by redeploying humans abroad in the business area possible, the coffer said yesterday. Northern Rock is aiming for a workforce of about 4,000 and any added cuts will be fabricated through accustomed turnover.

Ron Sandler, the bank's controlling chairman, said: "Confirming job losses is never simple but our agents accept been kept able-bodied abreast and the charge to arrangement the admeasurement of the aggregation is able-bodied understood.

"This charcoal a actual boxy time for our agents but the restructure of the aggregation is advancing achievement and we are now in the final appearance of this difficult process."

Mr Sandler is almost halving the admeasurement of Northern Rock's antithesis area to accord added than £20bn ... Read more »