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<br><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif" size="+1"><b>Business this week</b><br></font>
<font SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" color="999999">November 22nd 2001<br>From The Economist print edition
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<br><br><br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>The good oil</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Oil-industry consolidation continues, as <b>Phillips Petroleum</b> and <b>Conoco</b> announced a $15 billion all-share merger. The new company, to be called ConocoPhillips, is likely to be the sixth-biggest producer in the world, based on revenues.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34881_6659355_2_80065724_60423391_1_58">See article: Minor majors</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Normandy Mining</b>, of Australia, wooed by rival bids from America's <b>Newmont Mining</b> and South Africa's<b> AngloGold</b>, rejected AngloGold's all-share bid. This paves the way for a possible sweetened counter-offer from AngloGold, the world's second-largest gold producer. </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Enron's</b> financial turmoil worsened. But the Texan energy giant managed to put off repayment of some debts until mid-December. Enron's shares plunged to ten-year lows, casting greater doubt over its plans to be taken over in a rescue bid by smaller rival <b>Dynegy</b>.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Three <b>European steel makers</b>, Aceralia, Arbed and Usinor, patched up differences that had threatened their plans to merge, by agreeing to reduce Usinor's stake in the combined entity. The new company will be the world's biggest steel maker.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Optimism at last</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The <b>Dow Jones Industrial Average </b>has climbed by nearly 20% above its lows on September 21st, leading some optimists to announce the emergence of a new bull market. The index came within 23 points of the 10,000 mark before falling back.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34880_6659355_2_80065724_60423391_1_57">See article: Messages of hope?</a>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Brand names got a boost in Europe. The European Court of Justice handed a victory to jeans maker <b>Levi Strauss</b> when it ruled that sales of so-called &#8220;parallel imports&#8221; from outside the European Union's jurisdiction were allowed only with the consent of the trademark owner. The decision ends Levi's three-year battle with Tesco, a British supermarket chain, that sold cut-price Levi's jeans imported from the United States.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34879_6659355_2_80065724_60423391_1_5f">See article: Trouser suit</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">American <b>industrial production</b> fell for the 13th straight month, the longest continuous decline since the second world war. Other indicators were more optimistic: the Conference Board's index of leading indicators rose by 0.3% in October, raising hopes that the widely expected recession might not last long.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34878_6659355_2_80065724_60423391_1_5e">See article: Hey, big spender</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"> </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Schmidtbank</b>, a 170-year-old family-owned German bank, was rescued from some decidedly modern investments by a consortium of bigger peers, including Deutsche Bank, <font size="-1">HVB</font> Group, Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank. Schmidtbank has racked up losses from Consors, an online broker, as well as from bad loans to Germany's <i>Mittelstand</i> companies.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>French connections</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Shares in <b>Bull</b>, the troubled French computer company, shot up when its chairman, Guy de Panafieu, resigned. The French government pledged <i>euro</i>100m ($88m) to the company, though the European Commission, which is strongly opposed to state subsidies, may yet raise objections to the plan.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The chief of <b>Barclays'</b> French operations was questioned by magistrates in Paris as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering between France and Israel. Other banks under scrutiny include <font size="-1">BRED</font>, and Soci&eacute;t&eacute; Marseillaise de Cr&eacute;dit, owned by <font size="-1">HSBC</font>.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The European Commission levied a <i>euro</i>855m ($750) fine, the largest in its history, against <b>Roche </b>and <b>BASF</b>, and six other companies, for price-fixing in the market for vitamins. Two years ago, both companies were fined by antitrust regulators in America, and a Roche executive was jailed for four months.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Percy Barnevik</b>, the Swedish businessman who more or less created <font size="-1">ABB</font>, the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant, is to step down as non-executive chairman. Mr Barnevik said his departure would give the company's new management team a clear mandate of their own.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Love boats</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Royal Caribbean Cruises</b> and <b>P&amp;O Princess Cruises</b>, respectively the world's second- and third-largest cruise lines, agreed to merge in a bid to ride out the global economic storm. The deal may frustrate the ambitions of <b>Carnival Cruise Lines</b>, the industry leader, which has made previous overtures to P&amp;O Princess in a failed attempt to expand its European operations.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34882_6659355_2_80065724_60423391_1_59">See article: Rough seas ahead</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>KPN</b>, the Dutch telecoms company, said it would issue <i>euro</i>5 billion ($4.4 billion ) in shares at a 50% discount to the current price, to help it reduce a massive debt load acquired to purchase third-generation mobile-phone licences. </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">A slump in demand has cost jobs at <b>Alcoa</b>, the world's largest aluminium producer, which announced plans to sack 6,500 workers around the world. The company is forecasting a 4.7% drop in aluminium demand this year, the worst in 20 years.</font></p>
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